Ernie Warlick

Ernie Warlick

No. 84
Position:	Tight end
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1932-07-21) July 21, 1932
Place of birth:	Hickory, North Carolina
Date of death:	November 24, 2012(2012-11-24)
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Career information
College:	North Carolina Central
Career history
Calgary Stampeders (1957–1961) Buffalo Bills (1962–1965)
Career highlights and awards
3× CFL All-Star (1958, 1959, 1960) 4× AFL All-Star (1962, 1963, 1964, 1965) 2× American Football League champion (1964, 1965)
Career NFL statistics
Player stats at NFL.com
Player stats at PFR

Ernest "Ernie" "Big Hoss" Warlick (July 21, 1932 – November 24, 2012) was a tight end from North Carolina Central University who played American collegiate and Professional Football as well as Canadian Professional Football.

Warlick was born in Hickory, NC. After starring at Ridgeview High School and North Carolina Central, where he also lettered in basketball, he played 4 seasons with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. He then joined the American Football League's Buffalo Bills in 1962. He had an average of 17.2 yd/catch with the Bills, while the team earned three straight Eastern Division titles and two American Football League championships, and a 20.8 yd/catch average in 1964. In 1964, he helped the Bills win their first AFL championship game against the San Diego Chargers, 20-7, when he caught two passes for 41 yards. In the 1965 AFL championship game, when offensive linemen Billy Shaw and Dave Behrman were injured, Warlick helped bolster the Bills' offensive blocking in a double tight end offense. In that game, he also scored the first touchdown in the Bills' 23-0 victory over the Chargers, on an eighteen-yard pass from quarterback Jack Kemp.

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He was selected to the American Football League All-Star Team every year he was in the league, in 1962, '63, '64, and '65. He was the first African-American sportscaster on Buffalo television, was elected to the Buffalo Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 1998, and received the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Distinguished Service Award in 2000. In 2005, Warlick was inducted to North Carolina's Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Hall of Fame, honoring his basketball and football accomplishments at North Carolina Central.

See also

• Other American Football League players

External links

• Just Sports Stats
• Warlick's 1965 Topps football card
• Montage of Kemp-to-Warlick TD pass
• Warlick's Buffalo Broadcasters Hall of Fame induction
• Warlick's IACC induction