Longtime Buffalo Bills athletic trainer Bud Carpenter has announced his retirement via a statement on the team’s website. On the same day, Sal Maiorana of the Democrat and Chronicle is reporting they are also firing Carpenter’s second in command, Shone Gipson.
Carpenter spent 33 years as the Bills athletic trainer and he and his staff won the Ed Block NFL Training Staff of the Year award in 2007 and 2014. That 2007 award was largely for their response to the injury to Kevin Everett, when the tight end suffered a spinal cord injury on kickoff coverage.