Former Buffalo Bills safety Micah Hyde retired after last season, but he\u2019s still giving back to the place where he had so much success on and off the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the legacy I want to leave here and hopefully it continues to carry on,\u201d Hyde said prior to his Micah Hyde Charity Softball game at Sahlen Field in downtown Buffalo. \u201cPeople are going to remember me as 23 for the Buffalo Bills but at the end of the day I want them to remember this charity softball game that\u2019s hopefully still being held 20 years from now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite some rain, Hyde\u2019s softball game brought out thousands of Bills fans to see some of Buffalo\u2019s biggest stars join Hyde in raising money for worthy causes, a home run in every way.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a lot of support around from former teammates, even people from my hometown traveling here, people from all over New York coming here, so it\u2019s pretty cool,\u201d Hye said.<\/p>\n
Now that Hyde is officially retired, he can look back on a career that saw him become an All-Pro, one of the best safeties in the history of the Buffalo Bills, and a key cog in turning the team into a perennial contender.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese last couple months been able to dissect my career and really reflect on the career that I\u2019ve had,\u201d he said. \u201cObviously, the interceptions, the tackles and the wins has been amazing.\u00a0 I can watch those, my son can watch those, my family can watch those highlights for the rest of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
But for Hyde, there\u2019s something bigger than Xs and Os on the football field, but the love for a city and a fan base that will live on.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how long my name will be attached to this game, but as long as this game continues to go forward, the community helping the players, players helping the community, I think that\u2019s something that we can brag about around the league that nobody else is doing. That\u2019s something that Bills Mafia is able to create,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Buffalo Bills safety Micah Hyde retired after last season, but he\u2019s still giving back to the place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[3829,11084,1615,215,214,53,2086,6786,7,88,6,1612,9,3828],"class_list":{"0":"post-24955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-andy-young","9":"tag-app-in-the-community","10":"tag-app-sports","11":"tag-bills","12":"tag-buffalo","13":"tag-buffalo-bills","14":"tag-buffalobills","15":"tag-community-news","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-rochester","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114453637031229296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}