Bills Beef: LeSean McCoy Rips Icon Jim Kelly - 'Still Losing!'
We've become accustomed to shade from "Shady."
It's one thing for former Buffalo Bills star-turned-media-mouthpiece LeSean McCoy to gleefully pronounce the end of the New England Patriots' dynasty. But another - off-limits and taboo? - to criticize local legend Jim Kelly.
In an under-the-radar feud that's apparently been simmering since Kelly's criticism of McCoy's kneeling during the National Anthem in 2017, the former running back took aim at the Hall-of-Fame quarterback this week.
Beware the friendly fire. On the Up & Adams TV show, the topic began innocently enough with McCoy discussing Kelly's contention that the Bills should select a running back in next week's NFL Draft.
But next thing you know, he pounced all over Kelly for ... being a loser.
"First of all, Jim always talks,” McCoy said. "He just wants to talk about the team, you know? Nobody talks about how he came up short every year. Every year! Every year!! Nobody talks about that. Four times short!”
But McCoy wasn't done, then using air quotes to sarcastically describe Kelly as a "great quarterback."
Said McCoy, "He lost, lost, lost … still losing.”
McCoy obviously has some credibility in Buffalo. Made the Pro Bowl six times. Owns two Super Bowl rings. He's the last Bills' running back to rush for 1,000 yards (2017).
But, look, you don't tug on Superman's cape. You don't spit into the wind. And, when it comes to the Bills Mafia, you don't say a negative peep about the 63-year-old cancer survivor, legendary ambassador and quarterback hero that led the team to four consecutive Super Bowls in the early 1990s.
Clearly McCoy hasn't forgotten six years ago, when he and about a dozen Bills players kneeled during the National Anthem in protest over police brutality of minorities. McCoy also did stretching exercises during the pre-game song.
Kelly didn't approve, and fired the first salvo.
“I like LeSean McCoy, don’t get me wrong, but I totally, 100-percent disagree with what he did,” Kelly told a Buffalo radio station. “You want to kneel? Fine. But when you go and do what he did, that sort of bummed me out. And I lost a lot of respect for him. You want to kneel? That’s your prerogative. I would never do that. I will always stand, thank the good Lord for everything I got. But when you disrespect the way he did and just go by his everyday duty in the National Anthem being sung? Uh-uh. I won’t go for that.”
McCoy is now reminding everyone - including Kelly - that he hasn't forgotten.
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