The Texans have two more road games -- at Buffalo and Houston -- before they play for the home folks again, and it looks as if coach Hank Stram's men will meet the Bills just as they are developing into the kind of team they were expected to be in pre-season reckonings.

Following the season, the Giants fired first-year defensive coordinator Bill Sheridan, and replaced him with the former Buffalo Bills interim head coach, Perry Fewell.

Ramsay, who had been an assistant coach for the Boston Bruins for the previous three seasons, was a former NHL player who had been a teammate of Dudley's on the Buffalo Sabres.

The franchise was formed in 1946 as the National Basketball League's Buffalo Bisons, playing at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, New York, and featuring guard / forward and coach Deanglo King.

* Chuck Knox, 1954, former National Football League head coach, Los Angeles Rams, Buffalo Bills and Seattle Seahawks, also the NFL's fifth winningest coach

The Oilers even lost their head coach, as John Muckler left to become head coach and general manager of the Buffalo Sabres.

The Chisholm Trail, stage coach lines, mail routes, and railroads passed through stations at Buffalo Springs and Skeleton, today known as Bison and Enid.

* Jay Riemersma, former NFL tight end for the Buffalo Bills and the Pittsburgh Steelers and former coach for the Zeeland Chix football team.

* Harvey Johnson ( 1919 – 1983 ), served as head coach for the National Football League's Buffalo Bills.

* Kevyn Adams, Assistant coach for the Buffalo Sabres.

* Teppo Numminen, former defenseman and assistant coach of the Buffalo Sabres hockey club.

* Lindy Ruff, current head coach of the Buffalo Sabres hockey club.

* Chuck Knox ( born 1932 ), American football coach with the Los Angeles Rams, Buffalo Bills, and Seattle Seahawks ; attended Juniata College and married a Huntingdon native

* Bruce DeHaven, current special teams NFL coach for Buffalo Bills, former Seattle Seahawks, Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco Giants

Buffalo QB, head coach and part-owner Tommy Hughitt.

Dick Rauch also returned to the fold, resuming his position as head coach. Based at Boston's Braves Field, the Bulldogs nonetheless had a two-game swan song in their old stomping grounds, defeating both the Buffalo Bison on October 27 at Minersville Park and the Newark Tornadoes on October 29 at Mitchell Field.

Former Buffalo Bandits coach Les Bartley was hired to coach the new team, and he lured former Bandit Jim Veltman to join him, becoming the Raiders ' captain.

First-year coach and general manager Bert Olmstead publicly advocated a move to Vancouver, but an offer from Labatt's brewery to purchase and relocate the team was rejected by the league, as was a proposal to move the team to Buffalo from the Knox brothers, who had been shut out of the 1967 expansion.

Former UND students who have gone on to notable careers in athletics include former NBA player and current NBA coach Phil Jackson, ice hockey player who played in the 1980 Winter Olympics " Miracle on Ice " game Dave Christian, NHL professional ice hockey players Ed Belfour, Tony Hrkac, Jonathan Toews – captain of the Chicago Blackhawks, Zach Parise – New Jersey Devils, Travis Zajac – New Jersey Devils, T. J. Oshie – St. Louis Blues, Ryan Bayda – Pittsburgh Penguins, Drew Stafford – Buffalo Sabres, Brian Lee – Ottawa Senators, Matt Smaby – Tampa Bay Lightning, Matt Jones – Toronto Maple Leafs, Mike Commodore – Columbus Blue Jackets, Jason Blake – Anaheim Ducks, Ryan Johnson – Vancouver Canucks, NFL professional football players Jim Kleinsasser – and Dave Osborn, both of the Minnesota Vikings, CFL professional football players Weston Dressler, David Griswold – Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Several football alumni play in the National Football League, including Patrick Ramsey ( New Orleans Saints ), J. P. Losman ( Buffalo Bills ), Anthony Cannon ( Detroit Lions ), Mewelde Moore ( Pittsburgh Steelers ), Matt Forté ( Chicago Bears ), and Roydell Williams ( Tennessee Titans ).

John & Mary was formed by John Lombardo and Mary Ramsey soon after they first met in Buffalo, NY in December 1989.

Five ( likely more ) other U. S. police agencies use the title " Commissioner " for its highest-ranking official include the Buffalo Police Department ( where Daniel Derenda is the commissioner ), New York City Police Department ( where Raymond Kelly is,, the titleholder ), the Philadelphia Police Department ( where Charles H. Ramsey is,, the titleholder ) the California Highway Patrol ( Joe Farrow ) and the Baltimore City Police Department ( where Frederick H. Bealefeld III is commissioner )

Mary Ramsey ( born 24 December 1963 in Washington, D. C .), currently a resident of Buffalo, New York, is a member of folk rock duo John & Mary and lead singer for alternative rock band 10, 000 Maniacs.

Ramsey has also worked as a performer and music director for the Irish Classical Theater in Buffalo, New York.

Michael Allen Ramsey ( born December 3, 1960 in Minneapolis, Minnesota ) is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman who played 1070 regular season games in the NHL for the Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings between 1980 and 1997, after helping the 1980 U. S. Olympic hockey team win the gold medal in the Miracle On Ice.

Drafted 11th overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1979 NHL Entry Draft, Ramsey would go on to play in the National Hockey League immediately after the Olympics.

Ramsey was brought to the Pittsburgh Penguins by his old Buffalo coach Scotty Bowman in 1992 – 93 to shore up the Pens ' defensive corps while making a run for a third-straight Stanley Cup victory.

As a backup to starting quarterback Patrick Ramsey, Johnson played only two games with the Redskins, in Week 6 ( October 12 ) against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Week 7 ( October 19 ) against the Buffalo Bills, both against teams for which Johnson used to play.

The pert, gray-haired woman who came to Denver three years ago from Buffalo, N.Y., is a `` civilian '' with the Army.

DiFranco was born in Buffalo, New York, to Elizabeth and Dante DiFranco, who had met while attending MIT.

A rival for AFC supremacy during this time was the Buffalo Bills, coached by Marv Levy, who also used a version of the no-huddle offense starting with the 1989 season.

Blues harmonica players who are primarily or mainly associated with the instrument include Norton Buffalo, Jerry Portnoy, Lazy Lester, Bob Dylan, Sugar Blue, Billy Branch, Charlie Musselwhite, Corky Siegel, Junior Wells, Ron " Pigpen " McKernan, Kim Wilson, Slim Harpo, Al " Blind Owl " Wilson of Canned Heat, Jack Bruce of Cream and John Sebastian of The Lovin ' Spoonful.

A beloved Rabbi, he influenced generations of congregants and visiting students and, together with his wife who was an educator, founded Jewish day schools in both Springfield and Buffalo.

They defeated the San Francisco 49ers, who were attempting to win the Super Bowl for an unprecedented third straight year, 15 – 13 at San Francisco and then defeated the Buffalo Bills 20 – 19 in Super Bowl XXV.

The first such game offered via major e-mail services was WebWar II ( based on Starweb and licensed from Flying Buffalo ) from Neolithic Enterprises who accepted e-mail turns from all of the major E-Mail services including CompuServe in 1983.

Kemp was the first Super Bowl commentator who was still an active player ( with Buffalo of the AFL ) at the time of the broadcast.

Buffalo then played against Denver Broncos, who were coming off a 26 – 24 win over the Houston Oilers in which quarterback John Elway led them on an 87-yard drive to set up kicker David Treadwell's game-winning field goal with only 16 seconds left.

Publication was by Flying Buffalo, who released it in 1983, and Sleuth Publications Ltd. in 1986.

Stephen Arthur Cook ( born December 14, 1939, Buffalo, New York ) is a renowned American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made major contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity.

Those who fled to Canada now have descendants residing on nine small Dakota Reserves, five of which are located in Manitoba ( Sioux Valley, Long Plain, Dakota Tipi, Birdtail Creek, and Oak Lake ) and the remaining four ( Standing Buffalo, Moose Woods Cap, Round Plain, and Wood Mountain ) in Saskatchewan.

Agriculture is mostly small family dairy farms, or hobby farms for people who work in Buffalo or Batavia.

Many artists were drawn to Taos due to the presence of Mabel Dodge Luhan, a wealthy heiress from Buffalo, New York who had run a prominent art salon in Florence, Italy, and Manhattan, New York, before settling in Taos in 1917.

Nearby was the cabin of the Saturday Sketch Club used by Buffalo art students who specialized in outdoor oil painting.

In the semifinals, the Islanders faced the Buffalo Sabres, who had finished second overall in the NHL standings.

The following day, Islanders prospects Tim Connolly and Taylor Pyatt were traded to the Buffalo Sabres for Michael Peca, who became the team's captain.

In the Eastern Conference finals, the Hurricanes faced the Buffalo Sabres, who had finished just one spot behind the Hurricanes in the overall standings.

They faced the Eastern Conference champion Buffalo Sabres who had defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 in the Eastern Conference Finals.

The command of the expedition in Buffalo, New York, was entrusted by Roberts to Colonel John O ' Neill, who crossed the Niagara River ( the Niagara is the international border ) at the head of at least 800 ( O ' Neill's figure ; usually reported as up to 1, 500 in Canadian sources ) men on the night and morning of 31 May / 1 June 1866, and briefly captured Fort Erie, defeating a Canadian force at Ridgeway.

In the basement of the new Ellicott Square Building, Main Street, Buffalo, New York, Mitchell Mark ( properly spelled Mitchel Mark ) and his brother Moe Mark added what they called Edison's Vitascope Theater ( entered through Edisonia Hall ), which they opened to the general public on October 19, 1896 in collaboration with Rudolf Wagner, who had moved to Buffalo after spending several years working at the Edison laboratories.