1973 Topps football card of the player who was the Buffalo Bills’ first pick in the NFL’s inaugural “common” draft, defensive back John Pitts. The year was 1967, and it marked the first year that the National and American Football Leagues, which had just agreed to a merger, drafted eligible college players together from one pool. It ended the bidding war the two leagues had battled through for players in previous years. Although he is pretty much a forgotten player in Bills’ annals, Pitts played 7 of his 9 years in pro ball for the Bills, then spent a year each in Denver and Cleveland before retiring.