Ralph Wilson
American football player
1918 – 2014
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Who was Ralph Wilson?
Ralph Cookerly Wilson, Jr. was the founder and owner of the Buffalo Bills, a team in America's National Football League. He was one of the founding owners of the American Football League, the league with which the NFL merged in 1970, and was the last of the original AFL owners to own his team. At the time of his death he was the oldest owner in the NFL, at age 95, and the second-longest tenured owner in NFL history. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009.
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- Born
- Oct 17, 1918
Columbus - Also known as
- Ralph Wilson Jr.
- Ralph Cookerly Wilson Jr.
- Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Virginia
- Lived in
- Columbus
- Died
- Mar 25, 2014
Grosse Pointe Shores
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on July 23, 2013
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