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 Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 8:42 pm
Breaking News: Former Bills QB and Congressman Jack Kemp died today. Kemp died after a lengthy illness, according to spokeswoman Bona Park and Edwin J. Feulner, a longtime friend and former campaign adviser. Park said Kemp died at his home in Bethesda, Md., in the Washington suburbs.
Kemp was a 17th round 1957 NFL draft pick by the Detroit Lions but was cut before the season began. After being released by three more NFL teams and the Canadian Football League over the next three years, he joined the American Football League's Los Angeles Chargers as a free agent in 1960. A waivers foul-up two years later would land him with the Buffalo Bills, who got him at the bargain basement price of $100.
Kemp led Buffalo to the 1964 and 1965 AFL Championships, and won the league's most valuable player award in 1965. He co-founded the AFL Players Association in 1964 and was elected president of the union for five terms. When he retired from football in 1969, Kemp had enough support in blue-collar Buffalo and its suburbs to win an open congressional seat.
Kemp was a great man and was an important player in Buffalo Bills' history. He was also a great congressman. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called Kemp "one of the nation's most distinguished public servants. Jack was a powerful voice in American politics for more than four decades."
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 8:42 am
it is never a good thing to have someone die or pass away. just how things go. but he was a good senator and represented NY very nicely. You never heard anything bad about him and he was a great public person. Thoughts are with his family.
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Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 9:41 am
Good man and football player. RIP.
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Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 12:38 pm
There have been a few more than usual notable sport deaths this year. It is really sad to hear about all of them.
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