Kelly cheered in pregame ceremony
The Buffalo Bills unveiled Ralph C. Wilson Jr. napatagonia mens shoesme in gold letters on their Wall of Fame, and a sellout crowd showed its love for Jim Kelly in an emotional ceremony before Sunday home opener.
Kelly appearance, in the wake of his being declared free of cancer by doctors two weeks ago, set the crowd into a frenzy. The fans stood and cheered for a minute and 20 seconds before Kelly finally had to ask them to quiet down enough patagonia a better sweaterfor him to speak.
out there and hearing the noise, wow, said Ruspatagonia discount code 24studio3s Brandon, Bills president and chief executive officer. been here a long time, and I never felt the building like that. The shaking, the crowd, the vibe. It was unbelievable. Jim was having a tough time keeping it together, and I know we all were, too. Just to see him and hear him was phenomenal. had to wipe away tears during the standing ovation.
just want to thank all Bills fans for their prayers, he told the sellout crowd at Ralph Wilson Stadium.
Of Wilson, who died at age 95 in March, Kelly said:
was a guy with integrity, a guy we all looked up to, and a gupatagonia w's guide pantsy we all considered almost like a father to us. paused for a beat, as he got choked up, and then said, will forever miss him. ceremony honoring Wilson actually was understated.
The team took a tarp off Wilson name on the Wall of Fame, just under the main scoreboard, to roars from the crowd. All of the other names of Wall of Famers remain in black. Wilson now is in gold.
Kelly spoke for two minutes. Bills Hall of Fame running back Thurman Thomas presented Mary Wilson, the team founder widow, with a Wall of Fame ring.
Then there was a two minute video of Wilson career that china patagonia guide jacketincluded clips of his Pro Football Hall of cheap patagonia jackets saleFame induction speech in 2009. Mary Wilson did not speak.
It was a straightforward event that never got overly sentimentalpatagonia discount code 24studio1, which no doubt is the way the unpretentious Wilson would have wanted it.
100 percent, agreed Brandon. was quintessential Ralph. He would have wanted patagonia discount code 24studio0to get on with the game. Bills heldpatagonia chile luxury hotel a private tribute to Wilson on Friday night at Shea Buffalo.
was always about people, and it was great to see all the people who came, not just Jim and Thurman, but Bill Polian, Rusty Jones, Eddie Abramoski, Lou Piccone, and I could go on and on, Brandon said. were peoplpatagonia discount code 24studioe Ralph cared so much about, and he was such a people person. He would have been pretty proud, and he would have told us all to cut the speeches down a little bit. Kelly and Thomas, other former Bills on the field for the pregame ceremony included Hall of Famers Andre Reed and Joe DeLamielleure, Booker Edgerson, Marv Levy, Ruben Brown and Abramoski, the formpatagonia everlong review 60pn6500er Bills trainer.
me describe what Mr. Wilson has meant not only to my life but to the Buffalo Bills players, Kelly said in his speech. training camp, when he would be therepatagonia guide jacket invitations every single day, making sure we were doing tpatagonia guide jacket new yorkhe right things, to when he would lead us every Sunday in this stadium. When wepatagonia discount code 24studio2 would win which was most of the time here to those occasions when we didn win, he be right there, right in your face saying keep your chin up, next week we turn it around. Wilson received a big ovation. She watched the game from the Wilson suite at midfield on the visitors side of the stadium. Next to her in the front row of the suite was Wilson longtime friend and frequent game day buddy, Paul D. District Court judge in Michigan.
