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University of Buffalo football team, discriminated against in 1958, finally gets its trip to Orlando Mike Bianchi SPORTS COMMENTARY At last, they are welcome here. Every single one of them. A half-century later, they are getting their long-belated bowl trip to Orlando. “This,” says Willie Evans, one of the two black players on the 1958 University of Buffalo football team, “is icing on the cake.” Says an elated Gerry Gergley, one of his white teammates, “We finally made it!” This may be the coolest story in the history of Orlando sports. And maybe, in some small way, it will help scrub away one of the most shameful stains in the history of Orlando sports. Fifty-one years ago, the University of Buffalo Bulls were innocent victims of racial discrimination by Orlando leaders. Now, they will become the honored recipients of a civic celebration. By now, you may have the heard the story of the ’58 Bulls — a team that was enveloped by the dark cloud of racism in the segregated South all those
