Ernie Warlick, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetErnie Warlick
American football player
Date of Birth: 21-Jul-1932
Place of Birth: Hickory, North Carolina, United States
Date of Death: 24-Nov-2012
Profession: American football player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Ernie Warlick
- 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 yds/catch with the Bills, while the team earned three straight Eastern Division titles and two American Football League championships, and a 20.8 yds/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. 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.
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