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- ↑ "Byrd Bags Service Award Wilson Honor Will Go to Former Cornerback". October 20, 1994.
- ↑ "George "Butch" Byrd – Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame". July 25, 2012. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
- ↑ "Sean Kirst: From Watervliet, a passionate bid to lift Butch Byrd onto Bills Wall of Fame". October 2022.
- ↑ "Butch Byrd deserves to be on Bills Wall of Fame". July 2022.
- ↑ "Why it's time for Bills to add interceptions leader Butch Byrd to their Wall of Fame".
