With the recent unveiling of the team’s new uniforms, a good sports card to feature is this 1974 Topps football card of former Buffalo Bills quarterback Joe Ferguson. The team will return to the white helmets this season, and also to their more traditional blue. The Bills originally changed their helmets from white to red because Ferguson was color-blind and had trouble picking out his receivers from among all the players on the field, causing him to throw more interceptions. All the other teams in the AFC East at the time had white helmets also. Ferguson played 12 seasons for the Bills and is generally considered to be one of their most successful signal-callers of all time, after Jim Kelly and Jack Kemp.
Louise
July 8, 2011 at 4:00 pm
According to Joe Ferguson in an interview that was on Buffalobills.com, he was not color blind. That was a figment of some reporter’s imagination.