Quick Bio

Vic Carucci was born and raised in Whitesboro. He graduated from Whitesboro high school in 1975 and had been working at the Observer-Dispatch as a sports stringer since 9th grade.

He began working full-time at the O-D in the late '70s and then went to the Camden, New Jersey Courier-Post, where he covered the Philadelphia Eagles.

He then worked at the Buffalo News where he covered the Bills during their glory years--including the four straight Super Bowls. He worked at the Buffalo News until the early 2000s and then became the national editor of NFL.com.

Carucci is the fomer president of the Pro Football Writer's of America (PFWA) and received awards from the PFWA, the Associated Press, Sports Editors, the New York State AP Association and the New Jersey Press Association.

Carucci has written seven books about pro football: Armed and Dangerous, the Jim Kelly autobiography which he co-wrote with Kelly himself; Buffalo Bills and the Almost-Dream Season; By a Nose; Do You Love Football?!: Winning with heart, passion and not much sleep; Every Down, Every Distance: My journey to the NFL; Sunday Morning Quarterback: Going deep on the strategies, myths and mayhem of football; and They Call Me Dirty.

-Profile by Jennifer L. Blanchard

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