By Dan Schwartz The University at Buffalo football team has a record of nine wins and one loss. If you have been a UB football fan as long as I have, that is cause for slap-happy revelry. When I was a kid, a good year was when we won as many as we lost. As an adult, whenever I’d attended academic conferences, someone would invariably inquire about my alma mater. When I told them what it was, they’d get this sad expression and say, “Oh, UB is a very good academic school.” Indeed, once when one of our football coaches was asked on a local news show why the Bulls didn’t win more, he replied, “The trouble is our kids spend too damn much time in the library.” I acquired a coffee table book on the history of college football that’s as big as, well, a coffee table. Once home I turned to the index to look for references to UB. There was but a single entry. I located it in the body of the tome only to find it told the tale of how the University of Michigan once ran up 111 points on the slaughtered Bulls. Dan Schwartz A few years back my son Noodles attended Jim Kelly’s summer football camp. I spectated with a few other parents. There was a Q&A with a group of Bulls alumni who actually made it to the NFL. Noodles was the first to raise his hand. “Why did you decide to… [Read full story]
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