Angelo's letters descended upon the local papers within 24 hours after the trade had been made, predicting dire things for the Bills. Nothing has happened since to cause him to change his mind. It was Lamonica's duel with Jack Kemp for the No. Not long ago he wrote to the Bills, pointed out that Kemp's statistics - completion percentages, number of touchdown passes, number of interceptions, etc.
He was in Al Davis' corner when that George S. A considerable chunk of Coniglio's spending money was sunk into postage and stationery for his one-man crusade to win the AFL's dovish owners to his way of thinking.
No dice. I'll tell you what's missing. The old APL eagle, the league's symbol since it started. They even surrendered that a year ahead of time. Seated at his kitchen table, Angelo furiously dispatches his letters. One to the people at Dinty Moore's corned beef, informing them he will no longer consume their product which he loves because they have formed an unholy alliance with NFL Properties. Ditto for Chase and Sanborn coffee. NBC itself is a regular on the Coniglio mailing list.
Ange feels that the network's sportscasters, above all, people should be the most enthusiastic promoters of the league. It's not the creation of Milton Bradley or Parker Bros. There had never been one on the market. But I was determined that my 7-year-old son also Angelo. Dad is Ange. Mom is Angie. Three-year-old daughter is Angela would have an AFL game. Then there are his half dozen scrap books, containing samples of his correspondence.
Art Rooney, the kindly Pittsburgh owner, gave him a lot of encouragement even when the leagues were fighting. He has some polite, but frosty, letters from the commissioner's office. There also are newspaper headlines from historic APL triumphs, including the most famous of all, the Miami Herald's day-after-the-Super bowl issue which proclaimed: "Joe Guaranteed It. The strange part is that Coniglio has been a "nut" for a relatively short space of time.
He was a cheerleader at Lafayette High School in the early '50s. Coniglio is a graduate of the University of Buffalo and used to attend their games on a semi-regular basis. He was really turned on by pro football in the early '60s, when general interest in the Bills grew here. He and his wife just don't miss home games, even though she's had several serious illnesses and surgeries during the last few years. He can be a stern grandstand critic, but one thing he never does is boo.
Not even the visitors. And I feel that if you boo the opposing players, you downgrade your own competition. Talk of the Bills leaving Buffalo some time ago sank him into a state of depression.
If that had happened, there would have been no chance of him following. More than a Bills' fan, he is a Buffalo fan.
How the area has four seasons. How I would miss making a snowman in the winter with my children. How no place has anything to compare with our autumn.
This may be a winter of discontent for Coniglio, with the Bills finishing a disappointing season and the AFL heading into oblivion. But he still has some second effort. I might consider having it copyrighted myself, putting it in my name, then refusing the NFL permission to use it. Sign courtesy of Scott Davis. I call on all former AFL teams to do the same, to memorialize the league that was the genesis of modern Professional Football, and the men who had the vision to make it so.
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