Buffalo Bills punter Paul Maguire was at a party with a bunch of the San Diego Chargers players two days before the 1965 American Football League Championship Game.
It was not strange at all that Maguire would be hanging out with the opposition. The Bills spent the week practicing in San Diego. Maguire had spent his first four AFL seasons with the Chargers, and as anyone who knows Maguire can attest, he’s a lively party guest.
“So all night long they’re just telling me how they’re going to wax us,” Maguire said. “I went back to our guys and just nonchalantly went around the locker room and said, ‘Jeez, they’re going to kill us, that’s what they’ve been telling me.