Ernie Warlick

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Ernie Warlick
Date of birth July 21, 1932 (1932-07-21) (age 75)
Place of birth Flag of the United States Washington, DC
Position(s) Tight end
College North Carolina Central
Jersey Number 84
Career highlights
CFL All-Star 1958, 1959, 1960
AFL All-Star 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
Honors American Football League Champion, 1964 and 1965
Stats
Statistics
Teams
1957-1961
1962-1965
CFL Calgary Stampeders
AFL Buffalo Bills

Ernest "Ernie" "Big Hoss" Warlick (born July 21, 1932 in Washington, D.C.) was an American football tight end from North Carolina Central University and played 4 seasons with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League before joining 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 Hall of Fame quarterback Jack Kemp.

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.

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