Before the 1983 NFL draft, Jim Kelly’s agent asked him if there was any team he did not wish to play for. Kelly, who did not like cold weather, named the Buffalo Bills as one of his three teams. Ironically, that’s exactly where he landed as the 14th pick. Although he dodged playing for them with two seasons in the USFL, he now agrees, “the best decision of my life proved to be the day I signed with the Buffalo Bills.”

For a team that had just lost LB Tom Cousineau to the Cleveland Browns and was coming off consecutive 2-14 losing seasons, things were about to change: In his very first season with the Bills, Kelly changed the team’s losing trajectory; by his third season, Buffalo moved from the last-ranked team in the conference to the first; consecutive Super Bowl appearanc

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