Event Date: October 12th, 1985
Event Description: Comeback Kid
Source: UPI
Joe Cribbs is expected to be wearing his familiar number 20 for the Bills when Buffalo hosts the Indianapolis Colts next week.
Cribbs, a former All-Pro with the Bills from 1980-1983, has returned to his first professional football team after a two-year stint with the USFL Birmingham Stallions.
“I feel like I wanted to get out of the USFL and I wanted to play in the NFL,” Cribbs said at a news conference Friday, after signing a contract with the Bills, reportedly a four-year deal for $2 million, plus a $500,000 signing bonus.
“I'm glad it's over,” Cribbs, 27, said. “I feel it (the USFL) is a dying situation.”
Cribbs admitted he also has to “work out” and get “back into shape.”
The return of Cribbs had been the subject of talks between the Bills and Louis Burrell, Cribbs' agent, for the past two months. A major hurdle in the talks was the buyout of the remaining years of Cribbs' Birmingham contract.
“I'm delighted it's over,” said Bills general manager Terry Bledsoe, “because he (Cribbs) belongs in a Bills uniform.”
Story-(UPI Modified)
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