The Buffalo Bills had one of the best teams in the NFL during the 1990s, a charge that was led by quarterback Jim Kelly. In a 13-person panel I assembled to rank the Top 30 quarterbacks of the Super Bowl era, Kelly was ranked as the No. 15 signal-caller. Tyler Dunne of Go Long did the tribute word from the panel on Kelly.
“At a breakneck pace, the Buffalo Bills of the early 1990s changed the sport," Dunne writes. "And the man shattering the norms was Kelly. He had the mind to decipher defenses in a matter of a few fragile seconds at the line of scrimmage with the big arm to knife spirals through the lake-effect chill. He went 48-13 as the starter through four straight runs to the Super Bowl. While his resume lacks a defining moment, Kelly furthered the evolution of the sport with his K-Gun, no-huddle offense. Very quickly, the best of the best offenses slammed that gas pedal.”
Kelly was ranked ahead of multiple notable legends, including Warren Moon, Lamar Jackson, and Bart Starr. He led the Bills to four consecutive Super Bowls in the early 1990s. And while they didn't win any of them, we will likely never see a team ever accomplish that again. The Kansas City Chiefs have a chance to do so this coming season, but if they fall short, it's completely safe to say no team will ever appear in four straight Super Bowls again.
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