BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Sports Director Josh Reed had the opportunity to sit down with Bills General Manager Brandon Beane to talk about something bigger than football. The two discussed Beane’s children Tyson and Wes, the two that made him a father.
“Fortunately, I’ve got two healthy boys,” Beane said. “One just got out of college, and one is halfway through. I tell the people here, don’t miss their games, or their piano concerts. Especially in this business, you’re here enough. You’re away from your family and everyone has their own challenges in their life. Don’t even think about it, if you can get to their events, make sure you get to them, because you don’t get that time back.”
Beane also discussed how his competitive side was passed along to his children.
“I can remember, especially Tyson, my older son getting sent home,” Beane said. “We’ve got to send Tyson home. He’s down here arguing again about who won basketball.”
Tyson graduated from the University of Alabama and got his first job with the New York Giants in the scouting department.
“He played high school sports, played high school football, but he knew it was going to stop in high school, and he was already talking as a freshman, sophomore, like asking me questions like ‘What is and what is my path? How do I get to, you know, an opportunity?'” Beane said about his eldest son. “Before he enrolled in classes at Alabama, he started working for the team in recruiting, and again, his first three years, he didn’t get paid. It’s a lot of hours of unpaid, but I would tell him all the time, that’s like your master’s degree, like you’re getting an opportunity beyond the coursework that you take at Alabama. Four years of that and he interned with the Panthers last summer, which really gave himself an opportunity and he interviewed against — I think, six or seven people — and [he] got a job a few weeks ago and he’s picking guys up at the airport and whatever it takes to get the job done. I love it. I just think there’s so much value in that.”
Wes, Beane’s youngest son, recently graduated from Orchard Park High School and is enrolled in classes at the University of South Carolina.
“It seems like we just dropped him off at college and now he’s halfway through,” Beane said. “He’s down in South Carolina helping Shane Beamer in that program. They’ve done well and it’s been fun to see his excitement and his energy. I would say he was a little slower trying to figure out what he wanted to do. He loved being a part of this, but he never wanted to commit to it right away the way Tyson has. He’s got a lot of interests out there beyond just this. Tyson was like locked in football, football, football, but it’s been fun to see his viewpoint and where he’s gone.”