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Classic Sports Card of The Day

15 Oct

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1965 Topps football card of former defensive lineman Roland “Ron” McDole, one of the defensive stalwarts on the Buffalo Bills’ American Football League championship teams of the 1960s. McDole played eight seasons with the Bills starting in 1962, and was a two-time AFL All Star. While the careers of many of his AFL contemporaries faded after the league merged with the more established NFL, McDole flourished, re-inventing himself with George Allen’s “Over The Hill Gang” Washington Redskin teams of the 1970s. He stretched his career out for another eight years in Washington, and was named one of the top 70 Redskin players of all time. Redskin teammate Sonny Jurgensen nicknamed him “The Dancing Bear”, after he showed off his moves at a local nightclub. He holds the pro football career record for interceptions by a defensive lineman with 12.

 

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