Remember when Buffalo Bills cornerback Vontae Davis announced in the middle of a 2018 NFL game against the San Diego Chargers that he was quitting the team and retiring? Turns out, he was not the first person in Bills history to do that. In 1977, frustrated with his team’s performance in a game against the Seattle Seahawks, Bills head coach Jim Ringo announced at halftime that he was quitting. This is the story behind the head coach who quit in the middle of a game
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Members of the 1977 Bills:
Carson Long
Marv Bateman
Neil O’Donoghue
Joe Ferguson
Steve Freeman
Doug Jones
Roland Hooks
Charles Romes
Dwight Harrison
Mario Clark
Bo Cornell
OJ Simpson
Jim Braxton
Mike Collier
Mike Franckowiak
Tony Greene
Keith Moody
Curtis Brown
Greg Collins
Dan Jilek
Merv Krakau
Connie Zelencik
Tom Ruud
John Skorupan
Bob Nelson
Shane Nelson
Bill Adams
Willie Parker
Reggie McKenzie
Joe DeLamielleure
Joe Devlin
Mike Kadish
John Little
Ken Jones
Bill Dunstan
Ben Williams
Dave Foley
Greg Morton
John Holland
Bob Chandler
John Kimbrough
Sherman White
Phil Dokes
Leonard Willis
Reggie Craig
Paul Seymour
Reuben Gant
Lou Piccone
Ralph Wilson (owner)
Jim Ringo (head coach)
40 Comments
The next week the bills had 4 interceptions and they won.
The second year expansion teams, the Bucs and Seahawks wins were directly involved in 3 coaching vacancies. The Saints, St Louis Cardinals, and here with Ringo.
Back in the day, when you could smoke cigarettes on the sidelines. Lol
Then "Ground" Chuck coached from 1978-1982
Antonio Brown empathizes with Jimmy Ringo
This video is going to get a LOT of fresh traffic what with A.B.'s bizarre antics today…
Real football…I'd rather watch these bills play than the pussy "don't hit me, I'm defenseless" prima donnas now.
At least he didn't take his shirt off then run out of the stadium
Gotta love seeing an NFL coach smoking a cigarette ON THE FIELD!! The 70s ruled
The amount of times you’re forced to say a laser rating and then ‘which is worse than if they just spiked the ball after every snap’ or whatever is getting to be too damn high. These QBS were just awful back in the 70s haha
The 1977 Buffalo Bills were so bad that even OJ couldn't kill it that year. And he ended up getting traded to San Francisco next year.
Probably still a better HC than Urban Meyer
Don Crique, my favorite all time NFL broadcaster..
it wouldn't be a jaguar gator 9 video if you didn't mention spiking the the ball on the ground every play.
"Ringo starred…"
I see what you did there.
All do respect to Ringo, at least he TOLD his players he was resigning! UNLIKE BOBBY PETRINO, who flat out just quit without consulting anyone!
Ironically, I was 9 & when I heard on the radio the next morning the score of the Bills/Seahawks game, I told my father that I was going to root for the Seahawks.
44 years later I still do..
Where is the card in the upper right corner?
Wow just brutal stuff. I can't kill him for the clock management. He probably just wanted to finish up the game & get going at that point.
These videos > sleep
Don Criqui is a native Western New Yorker, so his opinion (love ATTITUDE like that in anyone) may be a bit personal.
Rick Azar, yeah, one of the local legends, along with Irv Weinstein & Tom Jolls. My mom served them at her restaurant often, and said Weinstein was a bit pompous, Azar was cool but polite, and Jolls was friendly (I don't know any TV types in North Florida, but my buddy's sister works for NBC JAX, so if I ever meet her…).
Boy those were some dark days for my beloved Bills. I remember going to the 13-0 Miami loss and you just knew they were going to suck.
What do you get when you combine Jim Ringo and Bart Starr?
A Beatle
So the Buffalo Bills had two straight head coaches quit during the season for two straight seasons…Lou Saban in 1976 and Jim Ringo in 1977.
Question: When is an expansion team no longer considered an expansion team?
@ 9:11 the Atlanta Falcons were an expansion team….1966.
What do you get when you combine Jim Ringo and Bart Starr?
A Beatle.
Ringo starred….smooth
Heh heh. Ringo Starred ✌🏼 ☮️ 🥁
You do realize the film clip shows the score as Seattle 56 – Buffalo 17? You said the final score was 56-10????
Somehow joe Ferguson still led the nfl in passing yards in this mess of a season
I blame OJ
"Ringo Starred" Not bad
Jim Ringo is like Jeff Saturday. A hall of fame Center yet an abysmal interim head coach
Don Criqui….can you imagine him saying the alleged professionals line? 🤣🤣. Unfortunately in today's soft world he would be fired from the industry for speaking the truth. Love that old time commentary.
I remember Greg Collins because he played for the Seahawks during our inagural season, he got cut from the seahawks because he was in a car accident on I-90 after leaving training camp in Cheney, WA (yes, not the most desirable town to be in during the summer) ….and he just happened to have the starting quarterback Jim Zorn with him when his car went off the road near Snoqualmie pass…Coach Jack Patera found out about the accident and cut Collins
the same Jim Ringo who , (now this is an alledged story, but something I've read about), as a player for Green Bay, showed up with an agent to discuss a contract with Vince Lombardi, Lombardi, who hated player agents, excused himself to take a phone call, then returned to tell Ringo that he had just been traded to the Eagles
And Shannon Sharpe says hag ba bubba buh white people suck. Ferguson had one of the best arms ever. Never had the full team. Then I believe it was Wilber Marshall almost killed him in Chicago.
I'm so tired of these long drawn-out biographies rather than getting to the clip I'm looking for
But I think 1977 was a huge success because nobody died
Any coach that tells the team he is quitting at half time should be made to go through with it or be fired.