James Harris became the first black man to start at quarterback in the NFL —and in all professional football—when he suited up for the Buffalo Bills in Week 1 of the 1969 season ...

On January 31st, James Harris, the first black man to regularly start as quarterback for an N.F.L. team, who was also part of the first wave of black executives in the league, retired from his ...

Harris, the first Black quarterback to start a season-opening game ... James Harris played for the Rams for four years and led the team to a divisional-round win over Washington in the 1974 playoffs.