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American football player Bill Simpson No. 48, 45 Position: Safety Personal information Born: (1951-12-05) December 5, 1951 (age 73) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. Height: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Weight: 184 lb (83 kg) Career information High school: Shrine (Royal Oak, Michigan) College: Michigan State NFL draft: 1974 pick: 50 Career history Los Angeles Rams (1974 – 1978) Buffalo Bills (1980 – 1982 ...
Buffalo Bills record by season Season Team League Conference Division Regular season Postseason results Awards Head coaches Refs; Finish W L T Pct; 1960: 1960: AFL: Eastern 3rd 5 8 1 .393 Buster Ramsey [8] 1961: 1961: AFL Eastern 4th 6 8 0 .429 [9] 1962: 1962: AFL Eastern 3rd 7 6 1 .536 Lou Saban [10] 1963: 1963: AFL Eastern 2nd° 7 6 1 .536 ...
The 1973 Buffalo Bills season was the 14th season for the team and their 4th season in the National Football League (NFL). The Bills finished in 2nd place in the AFC East division and finished the 1973 NFL season with a record of 9–5, the team's first winning record since 1966 .
Bills' running back O. J. Simpson rushed for 1817 yards on the season, and set a then-record with 23 touchdowns scored for the season. Fullback Jim Braxton had 823 yards rushing. Buffalo's ground game dominated the league, with a total of 2974 rushing yards, over 300 yards more than the second best rushing total.
The 1974 Buffalo Bills season was the franchise's 5th season in the National Football League, and the 15th overall. Buffalo made the NFL playoffs for the first time and reached the postseason for the first time in eight seasons. In the playoffs, they lost to the eventual champions, the Pittsburgh Steelers, 32-14 in Pittsburgh.
Buffalo's anemic scoring and porous defense gave the team a point-differential of −153, dead-last in the league. [4] This was the last season for O.J. Simpson as a member of the Bills, as he was traded to the 49ers the following season. Simpson would ultimately finish his last season with the Bills with 557 rushing yards on 126 attempts.
The 1972 season marked the return of former Bills coach Lou Saban, [a] who had previously led the team to two AFL Championships. Saban had a new offensive philosophy for Buffalo in 1972. In his first three seasons, former number one overall pick O. J. Simpson had only carried the ball an
The Bills played an AFL-record seven games against opponents that went on to reach the postseason; [1] Buffalo lost all seven of these games. This was the rookie season for running back O. J. Simpson, the Heisman Trophy winner from Southern California and first overall selection in the draft, [2] [3] who went on to a Hall of Fame career.