Pro Football: The Buffalo Bills Host the San Diego Chargers 50 years Later

This week when a pair of (2-0) teams, the San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills meet in Buffalo, it will be a rematch in the same city, as the AFL Championship Game 50 years ago.

In that 1964 AFL Championship Game, the Bills defeated the defending AFL champion Chargers and would do so in the 1965 AFL Championship Game as well.

The late Jack Kemp, who eventually was a nominee for Vice President and ran for the Presidency, was the Bills’ quarterback in both the 1964 and 1965 championship game victories.

Coincidentally, he was also the quarterback on earlier Chargers teams that played in and lost the first two AFL Championship games in 1960 and 1961.

The Chargers lost 4 of the 5 AFL Championship games in which they participated, and Kemp was involved in all four Chargers’ losses.

Twice as a Bills’ Quarterback (1964 and 1965) Kemp and his Bills defeated them. Also twice with Kemp as Chargers’ quarterback (1960 and 1961), the team lost the AFL championship game.