Pro Football Hall of Famer and former Georgia Tech and Buffalo Bills great Billy Shaw dead at 85

CANTON, Ohio — Billy Shaw, an all-time AFL great guard who powered the Buffalo Bills’ famed rushing attack of the 1960s, died Friday. A second-round draft pick out of Georgia Tech, where he was a two-way player and All-American, Shaw made eight American Football League All-Star games in his nine seasons. “Billy Shaw holds the distinction of being the only member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame to play his entire career in the American Football League, but while that fact is worthy of noting and nice to recite, it comes nowhere near providing the reason he was elected as a member of the Class of 1999,” Hall of Fame President Jim Porter said. “Billy’s all-around athleticism brought a new dimension to the guard position and made the 1960s Buffalo Bills a formidable opponent capable of bruising opponents with a punishing rushing attack,” Porter said.