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Buffalo Bills
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Established October 28, 1959; 65 years ago (October 28, 1959)[1]
First season: 1960
Play in Highmark Stadium
Orchard Park, New York[2]
Headquartered in the ADPRO Sports Training Center (Orchard Park, New York)[3]
League / conference affiliations
American Football League (1960–1969)
  • Eastern Division (1960–1969)

National Football League (1970–present)

Uniforms
Team colorsRoyal blue, red, gray, white, navy blue[4][5][6]
         
Fight song"Shout"[7]
MascotBilly Buffalo
Websitebuffalobills.com
Personnel
Owner(s)
General managerBrandon Beane
PresidentTerry Pegula
Head coachSean McDermott
Team history
  • Buffalo Bills (1960–present)
Team nicknames
Championships
League championships (2)
Conference championships (4)
Division championships (14)
Playoff appearances (23)
Home fields
Team owner(s)

The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area. The Bills compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team plays its home games at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York. The Bills are the only NFL team to play their home games within the state of New York.

Founded in 1959 as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL), they joined the NFL in 1970 following the AFL–NFL merger.[8][9] The Bills' name is derived from an All-America Football Conference (AAFC) franchise from Buffalo that was in turn named after western frontiersman Buffalo Bill.[10] Drawing much of its fanbase from Western New York[11] and Southern Ontario,[12] the Bills are the only NFL team that plays home games in the state of New York.[a] The franchise is owned by Terry and Kim Pegula, who purchased the Bills after the death of the original owner Ralph Wilson in 2014.[13]

The Bills won consecutive AFL Championships in 1964 and 1965, the only major professional sports championships from a team representing Buffalo. After joining the NFL, they struggled heavily during the 1970s before becoming perennial postseason contenders from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. Their greatest success occurred between 1990 and 1993 when they appeared in a record four consecutive Super Bowls, an accomplishment often overshadowed by their losing each game. From the early 2000s to the mid-2010s, the Bills endured the longest playoff drought of 17 years in the four major North American professional sports, making them the last franchise in the four leagues to qualify for the postseason in the 21st century.[14][15] They returned to consistent postseason contention by the late 2010s,[16] although the Bills have not returned to the Super Bowl. Alongside the Minnesota Vikings, their four Super Bowl appearances are the most among NFL franchises that have not won the Super Bowl.[17][b]

History

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Main articles: History of the Buffalo Bills and List of Buffalo Bills seasons

The Bills began competitive play in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League led by head coach Buster Ramsey and joined the NFL as part of the AFL–NFL merger in 1970.[18] In the first two seasons, the Bills went 5–8–1 and 6–8 under Ramsey.[19][20] The Bills won two consecutive American Football League titles in 1964 and 1965 with quarterback Jack Kemp and coach Lou Saban, but the club has yet to win a league championship since.[21][22]

Running back O. J. Simpson, the face of the Bills franchise for most of the 1970s, pictured breaking the NFL's single-season rushing record in 1973

Once the AFL–NFL merger took effect, the Bills became the second NFL team to represent the city; they followed the Buffalo All-Americans, a charter member of the league.[23] Buffalo had been left out of the league since the All-Americans (by that point renamed the Bisons) folded in 1929; the Bills were no less than the third professional non-NFL team to compete in the city before the merger, following the Indians/Tigers of the early 1940s and an earlier team named the Bills, originally the Bisons, in the late 1940s in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC).

Following the AFL–NFL merger, the Bills were generally mediocre in the 1970s but featured All-Pro running back O. J. Simpson.[24] After being pushed to the brink of failure in the mid-1980s, the collapse of the United States Football League[25] and a series of highly drafted players such as Jim Kelly (who initially played for the USFL instead of the Bills), Thurman Thomas, Bruce Smith and Darryl Talley allowed the Bills to rebuild into a perennial contender in the late 1980s through the mid-1990s under head coach Marv Levy, a period in which the team won four consecutive AFC Championships; the team nevertheless lost all four subsequent Super Bowls, records in both categories that still stand.[26][27][28]

The rise of the division rival New England Patriots under Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, along with numerous failed attempts at rebuilding in the 2000s and 2010s, helped prevent the Bills from reaching the playoffs in seventeen consecutive seasons between 2000 and 2016, a 17-year drought that was the longest active playoff drought in all major professional sports at the time.[29][30]

Mike Mularkey coached the Bills in the 2004 and 2005 seasons.[31] He went 9–7 but missed the postseason in 2004 and 5–11 in 2005.[32] He resigned from the team following the 2005 season.[33]

From 2006 to 2009, the Bills were coached by Dick Jauron.[34] Following three consecutive 7–9 seasons, Jauron was dismissed after a 3–6 start to his fourth season.[35][36] Perry Fewell finished out the season as interim with a 3–4 mark.[37]

From 2010 to 2012, the Bills were coached by Chan Gailey.[38] The team had Ryan Fitzpatrick as their quarterback in those seasons.[39] Gailey was fired after three consecutive last place finishes in the AFC East.[40]

Doug Marrone was hired to be the Bills' head coach prior to the 2013 season.[41] The Bills went 6–10 in the 2013 season and improved to 9–7 in the 2014 season.[42][43] Marrone decided to step down as head coach following the season.[44] On October 8, 2014, Buffalo Sabres owners Terry and Kim Pegula received unanimous approval to acquire the Bills during the NFL owners' meetings, becoming the second ownership group of the team after team founder Ralph Wilson.[13]

Prior to the 2015 season, the team hired former Jets' head coach Rex Ryan to become the next head coach of the Bills.[45] The team went 8–8 in 2015 and 7–9 in 2016.[46][47] Ryan was dismissed with one game remaining in the 2016 season, with Anthony Lynn finishing the season as interim.[48]

Sean McDermott era (2017–present)

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Under head coach Sean McDermott,[49] the Bills broke the playoff drought, appearing in the playoffs for six of the next seven seasons.[50] The team drafted Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen with the seventh overall pick in the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft.[51] The team earned its first division championship and playoff wins since 1995 during the 2020 season, aided by Brady's departure to Tampa Bay and out of the AFC East, as well as the Bills' own development of a core of talent including Allen, Stefon Diggs, Matt Milano, and Tre'Davious White.[52][53] In the 2020 season, the Bills reached the AFC Championship for the first time since the 1993 season.[54] However, their run ended with a 38–24 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.[55] The Bills won the AFC East with a 11–6 record in the 2021 season.[56] The Bills defeated the Patriots 47–17 in the Wild Card Round before falling to the Kansas City Chiefs 42–36 in overtime.[57][58] In the 2022 season, the Bills won the AFC East with a 13–3 record.[59] The season saw a cancelled game against the Bengals due to a near-fatal medical episode with Damar Hamlin, who eventually recovered and returned to football activities the following season.[60][61] The team defeated the Miami Dolphins in the Wild Card Round 34–31 before falling to the Cincinnati Bengals 27–10 in the Divisional Round.[62][63] In the 2023 season, the Bills won the AFC East for the fourth consecutive season.[64] In the Wild Card Round, they defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 27–17 before falling to the Kansas City Chiefs in the Divisional Round 27–24.[65][66] The Buffalo Bills have also announced the plans to build a new stadium to replace Highmark Stadium in 2026.[67]

Logos and uniforms

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Bills logo, 1962–1973

For their first two seasons, the Bills wore uniforms based on those of the Detroit Lions at the time. Ralph Wilson had been a minority owner of the Lions before founding the Bills, and the Bills' predecessors in the AAFC had also worn blue and silver uniforms.[4][68]

The team's original colors were Honolulu blue, silver, and white, and the helmets were silver with no striping. There was no logo on the helmet, which displayed the players' numbers on each side.

In 1962, the standing red bison was designated as the logo and took its place on a white helmet.[4] In 1962, the team's colors also changed to red, white, and blue. The team switched to blue jerseys with red and white shoulder stripes, similar to the Buffalo Bisons AHL hockey team of the same era. The helmets were white with a red center stripe.[4] The jerseys again saw a change in 1964 when the shoulder stripes were replaced by a distinctive stripe pattern on the sleeves consisting of four stripes, two thicker inner stripes and two thinner outer stripes all bordered by red piping. By 1965, red and blue center stripes were put on the helmets.[69]

The Bills introduced blue pants worn with the white jerseys in 1973, the last year of the standing buffalo helmet. The blue pants remained through 1985.[70] The face mask on the helmet was blue from 1974 through 1986 before changing to white.

The standing bison logo was replaced by a blue charging one with a red slanting stripe streaming from its horn. The newer emblem, still the primary one used by the franchise, was designed by aerospace designer Stevens Wright in 1974.[5][71]

Quarterback Jim Kelly's 1994 jersey displayed at the Pro Football Hall of Fame

In 1984, the helmet's shell color was changed from white to red, primarily to help Bills quarterback Joe Ferguson distinguish them more readily from three of their division rivals at that time, the Baltimore Colts, the Miami Dolphins, and the New England Patriots, who all also wore white helmets at that point. Ferguson said, "Everyone we played had white helmets at that time. Our new head coach Kay Stephenson just wanted to get more of a contrast on the field that may help spot a receiver down the field."[72] (The Patriots have worn silver helmets since 1993, the Colts have since been realigned to the AFC South, and in 2019 the New York Jets have since switched back to green-colored helmets, after playing 20 years with white ones.)

In 2002, under the direction of general manager Tom Donahoe, the Bills' uniforms went through radical changes. A darker shade of blue was introduced as the primary jersey color, and nickel gray was introduced as an accent color. Both the blue and white jerseys featured red side panels. The white jerseys included a dark blue shoulder yoke and royal blue numbers. The helmet remained primarily red with one navy blue, two nickel, two royal blue, two white stripes, and a white face mask. A new logo, a stylized "B" consisting of two bullets and a more detailed buffalo head on top, was proposed and had been released (it can be seen on a few baseball caps that were released for sale), but fan backlash led to the team retaining the running bison logo. The helmet logo adopted in 1974—a charging royal blue bison with a red streak, white horn, and eyeball—remained unchanged.

In 2005, the Bills revived the standing bison helmet and uniform of the mid-1960s as a throwback uniform.

The Bills usually wore the all-blue combination at home and the all-white combination on the road when not wearing the throwback uniforms. They stopped wearing blue-on-white after 2006, while the white-on-blue was not worn after 2007.

For the 2011 season, the Bills unveiled a new uniform design, an updated rendition of the 1975–83 design. This change includes a return to the white helmets with "charging buffalo" logo, and a return to royal blue instead of navy.[73][74] The set initially featured striped socks, but by 2021, the Bills gradually reduced its usage and began wearing either all-white or all-blue hosiery without stripes in most games.

Buffalo sporadically wore white at home in the 1980s, including all eight home games in 1984, but stopped doing so beginning in 1987. On November 6, 2011, against the New York Jets, the Bills wore white at home for the first time since 1986. Since 2011, the Bills have worn white for home games, either with their primary uniform or a throwback set.

The Bills' uniform received minor alterations as part of the league's new uniform contract with Nike. The new Nike uniform was unveiled on April 3, 2012.[75]

On November 12, 2015, the Bills and the New York Jets became the first two teams to participate in the NFL's Color Rush uniform initiative, with Buffalo wearing an all-red combination for the first time in team history.[76] Like the primary uniforms, the set initially had red socks with white and blue stripes, but in 2020, it was replaced with red socks without stripes.

A notable use of the Bills' uniforms outside of football was in the 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships when the United States men's national junior ice hockey team wore Bills-inspired uniforms in their outdoor game against Team Canada on December 29, 2017.[77] This game was also played at the Bills' home stadium, Highmark Stadium.

On April 1, 2021, the team announced they would wear white face masks during the upcoming season and beyond.[78][79]

Rivalries

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The Bills have rivalries with their three AFC East opponents (the Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, and New York Jets) and also have rivalries with the Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts (a former divisional opponent), Kansas City Chiefs, Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans, Jacksonville Jaguars,[80] and Dallas Cowboys.[81] They also play an annual preseason game against the Detroit Lions.

The Cleveland Browns once shared a rivalry with the Bills' predecessors in the All-America Football Conference. The current teams have a more friendly relationship and have played sporadically since the AFL–NFL merger.[82]

Divisional

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Miami Dolphins

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Main article: Bills–Dolphins rivalry
Bills placekicker Dan Carpenter attempts a kick against the Dolphins in 2014.

This is often considered Buffalo's most famous rivalry. Though the Bills and Dolphins both originated in the American Football League, the Dolphins did not start playing until 1966 as an expansion team, while the Bills were one of the original eight AFL teams.[83] The rivalry first gained prominence when the Dolphins won every match-up against the Bills in the 1970s for an NFL-record 20 straight wins against a single opponent (the Bills defeated the Dolphins in their first match-up of the 1980s).[84] Fortunes changed in the following decades with the rise of Jim Kelly as Buffalo's franchise quarterback. Though Kelly and Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino shared a competitive rivalry in the 1980s and 1990s, the Bills became dominant in the 1990s. Things have since cooled down after the retirements of Kelly and Marino and the rise of the New England Patriots, but Miami remains a fierce rival of the Bills, coming in second place in a recent poll of Buffalo's primary rival,[85] and the two teams have typically been close to each other in win–loss records. Miami leads the overall series 62–58–1 as of 2023, but Buffalo has the advantage in the playoffs at 4–1, including a win in the 1992 AFC Championship Game.[86]

New England Patriots

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Main article: Bills–Patriots rivalry
Bills RB C. J. Spiller rushing against the Patriots in 2013

The rivalry with the New England Patriots began when both teams were original franchises in the American Football League (AFL) prior to the NFL–AFL merger, but did not gain notability until the emergence of New England quarterback Tom Brady in 2001.[87] The teams were very competitive prior to the 2000s. However, Brady's arrival in the early 2000s led to the Patriots dominating the AFC East, including the Bills, for two decades.[88][89] As a result, New England replaced the Dolphins as Buffalo's most hated rival.[85][90] The Bills have taken a 7–2 edge since Brady's departure in 2020, which included consecutive AFC East titles from 2020 to 2022 and a season sweep of the Patriots in two of the three years. In 2021, the Bills dominated in a 47–17 victory against the Patriots in the two teams' first playoff match-up in 59 years, which saw the Bills score a touchdown on every offensive drive throughout the entire game and, as such, is the only "perfect offensive game" in NFL history.[91][92][93] Overall, the Patriots lead the series 78–50–1 as of 2023, but trail the Bills by a 47–46–1 margin without Brady on the field.[94]

The rivalry is also noted for several players being a members of both teams during their careers, including Drew Bledsoe, Doug Flutie, Lawyer Milloy, Brandon Spikes, Scott Chandler, Chris Hogan, Mike Gillislee, and Stephon Gilmore.[95]

New York Jets

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Main article: Bills–Jets rivalry
Bills' running back Joe Cribbs (middle) rushes the ball against the Jets in the 1981 AFC Wild Card.

The Bills and Jets were both original AFL teams, and both represent the state of New York, though the Jets have played their home games in East Rutherford, New Jersey since 1984. While the rivalry represents the differences between New York City and Western New York, it has historically not been as intense as Buffalo's rivalries with the Dolphins and Patriots. When not playing one another, the teams' fan bases either have grudging respect or low-key annoyance for each other (stemming more from the broader upstate-downstate tensions than the teams or sport). The Bills-Jets rivalry has often become characterized by ugly games and shared mediocrity, but it has had a handful of competitive moments. The series heated up recently when former Jets head coach Rex Ryan became the Bills' head coach for two seasons and had become notable again as Bills quarterback Josh Allen and former Jets quarterback Sam Darnold, both drafted in the same year, maintained a friendly rivalry with one another.[96][97] Buffalo leads the series 69–58 as of 2023, including a playoff win in 1981.[98]

Conference

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Kansas City Chiefs

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Main article: Bills–Chiefs rivalry
See also: 2021 AFC Divisional playoff game (Buffalo–Kansas City)

The Kansas City Chiefs, another original franchise in the AFL, have a long history against the Bills, despite the two teams never being in the same division. Buffalo currently leads the series 29–24–1, which has included five playoff meetings, three of which were AFL/AFC Championship Games;[99] Kansas City won the 1966 AFL Championship Game that determined the AFL's representative in the first Super Bowl against the NFL champion Green Bay Packers,[100] in addition to the 2020 AFC Championship Game that saw the team advance to its second straight Super Bowl appearance,[101] while Buffalo defeated Kansas City in the 1993 AFC Championship Game to advance to its fourth straight Super Bowl appearance.[102] However, after each victory in the AFC Championship Game, the Chiefs or the Bills went on to lose the ensuing Super Bowl. Despite a lull in the series in the 2000s and 2010s, the rivalry gained attention as the Bills and Chiefs met in nine of ten years from 2008 to 2017.[103][104] After a two-year hiatus in the series, four high-profile match-ups occurred between the Bills and Chiefs in 2020 and 2021, including the aforementioned 2020 Championship Game and the 2021 Divisional round game, the latter of which is now considered one of the greatest playoff games of all time, but was also controversial due to the league's overtime rules.[105][106] A rivalry between Bills quarterback Josh Allen and Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has also developed, drawing comparisons to Jim Kelly's rivalry with Dan Marino as well as the rivalry between Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.[107]

Jacksonville Jaguars

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A new rivalry emerged between the Bills and the Jacksonville Jaguars after former Bills head coach Doug Marrone, who had quit the team after the 2014 season, was hired as a coaching assistant for Jacksonville and eventually rose to become the Jaguars' head coach.[80] The first game between the Marrone-led Jaguars was a London game in week 7 of the 2015 season, which saw the Jaguars' win 34–31.[108] The most important game of this series was an ugly, low-scoring Wild Card game in 2017 that saw the Jaguars win 10–3. This game is notable as it was the first Bills playoff appearance in 17 seasons.[109] Prior to this, Jacksonville had handed Buffalo its first playoff loss in Bills Stadium in 1996.[110] Following the 2017 wild card game the Bills and Jaguars have met three additional times. The first was a "rematch" game in week 12 of the 2018 season, which saw the Bills win 24–21. During this game, trash talk from former Jaguars players such as Jalen Ramsey resulted in a brawl between the teams.[111][112][113] The second time was in week 9 of the 2021 season. By now, the "point" of the rivalry, Marrone's feud with the Bills organization, and the personal drama between Bills and Jaguars players no longer applied as Marrone had been fired and replaced by Urban Meyer and all the players from the 2017 Jaguars team have since moved on to other teams or retired. Regardless, this game was the seventh largest upset at the time in NFL history, which saw the 15.5-point favorite Bills lose 9–6.[114] The next time the teams would play would be a monday-night game in 2024 where the bills "annihilated" the Jaguars 47-10.[115] The series is currently tied at 10–10.[116]

Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans

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Main article: Bills–Titans rivalry

The Tennessee Titans (formerly the Houston Oilers) share an extended history with the Bills, both teams being original AFL clubs and rivals in that league's East Division before the AFL-NFL merger. Match-ups were intense in the 1990s, with quarterback Warren Moon leading the Oilers against Jim Kelly's Bills.[117] After both teams failed to meet the same success in the late 2000s to early 2010s, they have returned to consistent playoff contention since 2017, resulting in several high-profile games as of late.[118] Memorable playoff moments between the teams include The Comeback, in which the Frank Reich-led Bills overcame a 35–3 deficit to stun the Oilers 41–38 in 1992,[117] and the Music City Miracle, in which the now-Titans scored on a near-last-minute kickoff return with a controversial lateral pass ruling to beat the Bills 22–16 in 1999.[119] The Music City Miracle was notable for being Buffalo's last playoff appearance until 2017.[120] The Titans currently lead the series 30–20.[121]

Notable players

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Retired numbers

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The Buffalo Bills have retired three numbers in franchise history: No. 12 for Jim Kelly, No. 34 for Thurman Thomas, and No. 78 for Bruce Smith. Although the Bills have retired only three jersey numbers, other numbers are no longer issued or are in reduced circulation.[122][123]

Buffalo Bills retired numbers
No. Player Position Tenure Retired
12 Jim Kelly QB 1986–1996[122] November 19, 2001
34 Thurman Thomas RB 1988–1999[124][125] October 30, 2018
78 Bruce Smith DE 1985–1999[123] September 15, 2016
Reduced circulation:[122]

Since the team's earliest days, the number 31 was not supposed to be issued to any other player. The Bills had stationery and various other team merchandise showing a running player wearing that number, and it was not supposed to represent any specific person but the 'spirit of the team.' In the first three decades of the team's existence, the number 31 was only seen once. In 1969, when reserve running back Preston Ridlehuber damaged his number 36 jersey during a game, equipment manager Tony Marchitte gave him the number 31 jersey to wear while repairing the number 36. The number 31 was not reissued until 1990 when first-round draft choice James Williams wore it for his first two seasons; it has since been returned to general circulation. Cornerback Rasul Douglas currently wears the 31 since he joined the Bills in 2023.

Number 32 had been withdrawn from circulation but not retired after O. J. Simpson. Former owner Ralph Wilson insisted on not reissuing the number, even after Simpson's highly publicized murder case and later robbery conviction. The number was placed back into circulation in 2019 with Senorise Perry wearing the number that year; practice squad cornerback Kyler McMichael was the last player to wear the number.[126] The 32 however has been mainly used for the defense with current linebacker, Nicholas Morrow wearing the number after Kyron Brown wore the number the prior season on the practice squad.

Number 15 was historically only issued sparingly after the retirement of Jack Kemp.[122] It was last worn by wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling in 2024, before he was released on October 15, 2024. [127] Other numbers that have been historically issued only on rare circumstances included the 44 of Elbert Dubenion (worn as of 2024 by Joe Andreessen) and the 66 of Billy Shaw (worn since 2023 by Connor J. McGovern), each of which were typically only issued to players not expected to make the team's regular season roster.[122]

Number 1 has also rarely been used for reasons yet to be explained. While there is no proper explanation, Tommy Hughitt was a player-coach for the early Buffalo teams in the New York Pro Football League and NFL from 1918 to 1924 and was both a major on-field success and a fixture in Buffalo culture after his retirement as a politician and auto salesman. Hughitt was reported to wear number 1 during this time. Wide receiver Curtis Samuel currently wears the number; prior to Emmanuel Sanders's one-year stint with the Bills in 2021, it had been 19 years since it had been worn in the regular season when kicker Mike Hollis wore it in 2002.[128]

Number 95 has not been reissued since the retirement of Kyle Williams in 2019.[129]

Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Distinguished Service Award recipients

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Wall of Fame

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Quarterback Jim Kelly was the first Bills player to have his number retired
Hall of Fame WR Andre Reed
Hall of Fame RB O. J. Simpson
Defensive end Bruce Smith holds the NFL record for quarterback sacks
Inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Buffalo Bills Wall of Fame
Inducted No. Name Position Tenure
1980 32 O. J. Simpson RB 1969–1977
1984 15 Jack Kemp QB 1962–1969
1985 – Pat McGroder Contributor
GM		 1961–1983
1983
1987 70 Tom Sestak DT 1962–1968
1988 66 Billy Shaw OG 1961–1969
1989 – Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Owner 1959–2014
1992 12 The 12th Man Fans 1960–present
1993 44 Elbert Dubenion WR 1960–1968
1994 58 Mike Stratton LB 1962–1972
1995 12 Joe Ferguson QB 1973–1984
1996 – Marv Levy HC
GM		 1986–1997
2006–2007
1997 68 Joe DeLamielleure OG 1973–1979
1985
1998 20 Robert James CB 1969–1974
1999 – Edward Abramoski Trainer 1960–1996
2000 61 Bob Kalsu G 1968
26 George Saimes S 1963–1969
2001 12 Jim Kelly QB 1986–1996
76 Fred Smerlas DT 1979–1989
2002 67 Kent Hull C 1986–1996
2003 56 Darryl Talley LB 1983–1994
2004 51 Jim Ritcher G 1980–1993
2005 34 Thurman Thomas RB 1988–1999
2006 83 Andre Reed WR 1985–1999
2007 89 Steve Tasker WR 1986–1997
2008 78 Bruce Smith DE 1985–1999
2010 24 Booker Edgerson CB 1962–1969
2011 90 Phil Hansen DE 1991–2001
2012 – Bill Polian GM 1984–1992
2014 – Van Miller Broadcaster 1960–1971
1977–2003
2015 – Lou Saban Coach 1962–1965
1972–1976
2017 34 Cookie Gilchrist RB 1962–1964

Pro Football Hall of Fame

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Buffalo Bills Hall of Famers
Players
No. Name Position Tenure Inducted
32 O. J. Simpson RB 1969–1977 1985
66 Billy Shaw OG 1961–1969 1999
12 Jim Kelly QB 1986–1996 2002
80 James Lofton WR 1989–1992 2003
68 Joe DeLamielleure OG 1973–1979
1985		 2003
34 Thurman Thomas RB 1988–1999 2007
78 Bruce Smith DE 1985–1999 2009
83 Andre Reed WR 1985–1999 2014[132]
81 Terrell Owens WR 2009 2018
Coaches and Executives
Name Position Tenure Inducted
Marv Levy Head coach
General Manager		 1986–1997
2006–2007		 2001
Ralph Wilson Owner 1959–2014 2009
Bill Polian General Manager 1984–1992 2015

50th Anniversary Team

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Position Player Tenure
Offense
QB Jim Kelly 1986–1996
RB Thurman Thomas 1988–1999
WR Andre Reed 1985–1999
Eric Moulds 1996–2005
James Lofton 1989–1992
TE Pete Metzelaars 1985–1994
OL Joe DeLamielleure 1973–1979,
1985
Kent Hull 1986–1996
Billy Shaw 1961–1969
Ruben Brown 1995–2003
Jim Ritcher 1980–1993
Defense
DL Bruce Smith 1985–1999
Fred Smerlas 1979–1989
Tom Sestak 1962–1968
LB Darryl Talley 1983–1994
Mike Stratton 1962–1972
Cornelius Bennett 1987–1995
Shane Conlan 1987–1992
CB Butch Byrd 1964–1970
Nate Odomes 1987–1993
S George Saimes 1963–1969
Henry Jones 1991–2000
Special teams
K Steve Christie 1992–2001
P Brian Moorman 2001–2013
ST Steve Tasker 1986–1997
Coach
HC Marv Levy 1986–1997
Source:[133][134][135]

Silver Anniversary Team

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On April 27, 1984, Bills announced the Silver Anniversary team to commemorate its 25th anniversary.[136]

Position Player Tenure
Offense
QB Jack Kemp 1962–1969
RB O. J. Simpson 1969–1977
FB Cookie Gilchrist 1962–1964
WR Elbert Dubenion 1960–1968
Bob Chandler 1971–1979
TE Ernie Warlick 1962–1965
OT Joe Devlin 1976–1989
G Billy Shaw 1961–1969
C Al Bemiller 1961–1969
Defense
DE Ben Williams 1976–1985
Ron McDole 1963–1970
NT Fred Smerlas 1979–1989
DT Tom Sestak 1962–1968
LB John Tracey 1962–1967
Jim Haslett 1979–1985
Mike Stratton 1962–1972
CB Robert James 1969–1974
Butch Byrd 1964–1970
S George Saimes 1963–1969
Steve Freeman 1975–1986
Special teams
K Pete Gogolak 1964–1965
P Paul Maguire 1964–1970
Staff
Owner Ralph Wilson 1960–2014
Source:[137]

All-time first-round draft picks

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Main article: List of Buffalo Bills first-round draft picks

Recent Pro Bowl selections

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Main article: List of Buffalo Bills Pro Bowl selections

Coaching staff

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Head coaches

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Main article: List of Buffalo Bills head coaches

The Bills have had twenty coaches serve as head coach in franchise history.[138]

Current staff

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Buffalo Bills staff
Front office
  • Owner/CEO/president – Terry Pegula
  • Owner – Kim Pegula
  • General manager – Brandon Beane
  • Assistant general manager – Brian Gaine
  • Director of player personnel – Terrance Gray
  • Senior advisor to the GM/football operations – Jim Overdorf
  • Senior executive – Lake Dawson
  • Senior personnel advisor – Malik Boyd
  • Co-director of pro scouting – Chris Marrow
  • Co-director of pro scouting – Curtis Rukavina
  • Assistant director of pro scouting – Asil Mulbah
  • Vice president of football administration – Kevin Meganck
  • Director of football operations – Brendan Rowe
  • Director of college scouting – Matt Bazirgan
Head coach
Offensive coaches
  
Defensive coaches
Special teams coaches
  • Special teams coordinator – Matthew Smiley
  • Assistant special teams – Cory Harkey
  • Director of team administration – Matt Worswick
Strength and conditioning
  • Head strength and conditioning – Eric Ciano
  • Assistant strength and conditioning/performance development – Will Greenberg
  • Assistant strength and conditioning – Hal Luther
  • Strength and conditioning assistant – Nick Lacy
  • Strength and conditioning assistant – Jason Oszvart

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Current roster

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Buffalo Bills roster
Quarterbacks (QB)

Running backs (RB)

Wide receivers (WR)

Tight ends (TE)

Offensive linemen (OL)

Defensive linemen (DL)

Linebackers (LB)

Defensive backs (DB)

Special teams

Practice squad

Reserve


As of November 4, 2024. Rookies in italics.

53 active, 6 reserve, 16 practice squad (+1 exempt)

Radio and television

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Main article: List of Buffalo Bills broadcasters
See also: Buffalo Bills Radio Network
Map of radio affiliates[needs update]. One affiliate in Wyoming is not shown.

The Buffalo Bills Radio Network is flagshipped at WGR AM 550 in Buffalo, with sister station WWKB AM 1520 simulcasting all home games. Chris Brown is the team's current play-by-play announcer, having taken over from John Murphy (the announcer from 2003 to 2022 and color commentator most years from 1984 to 2003) after Murphy suffered a stroke.[139][140] Former Bills center Eric Wood is the color analyst.[141]

In 2018, the team signed an agreement with Nexstar Media Group to carry Bills preseason games across its network of stations in the region. As of 2020, WIVB-TV serves as the flagship station of the network, which includes WJET-TV in Erie, WROC-TV in Rochester, WSYR-TV in Syracuse, WUTR in Utica, WETM-TV in Elmira and WIVT in Binghamton.[142] Steve Tasker does color commentary on these games; the play-by-play position is rotated between Andrew Catalon and Rob Stone. WROC-TV reporter Thad Brown is the sideline reporter. Since 2008, preseason games have been broadcast in high definition.

Beginning in the 2016 season, as per a new rights deal that covers rights to the team as well as its sister NHL franchise, the Buffalo Sabres, most team-related programming, including studio programming and the coach's show, was re-located to MSG Western New York—a joint venture of MSG and the team ownership. Preseason games will continue to air in simulcast on broadcast television.[143]

In the event that regular-season games are broadcast by ESPN, in accordance with the league's television policies, a local Buffalo station will broadcast the game. From 2014 to 2017, WKBW-TV held the broadcast rights to that contest, with the station winning back the rights to cable games after WBBZ-TV held the rights for 2012 and 2013.[144]

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Mascots, cheerleaders, and marching band

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The Bills' official mascot is Billy Buffalo, an eight-foot-tall, anthropomorphic blue American bison who wears the jersey "number" BB.[146]

The Bills do not have cheerleaders.[147] The Bills operated a cheerleading squad named the Buffalo Jills from 1967 to 1985; from 1986 to 2013, the Jills operated as an independent organization sponsored by various companies. The Jills suspended operations prior to the 2014 season due to legal actions.[148] The Bills and Jills were previously involved in a legal battle, in which the Jills alleged they were employees, not independent contractors, and sought back pay.[149][150] On March 3, 2022, a settlement was reached where the Bills agreed to pay the Jills $3.5 million, while Cumulus Media paid $4 million in stock options of the company while admitting no wrongdoing.[151]

The Bills are one of six teams in the NFL to designate an official marching band or drumline (the others being the Baltimore Ravens, Washington Commanders, New York Jets, Carolina Panthers and Seattle Seahawks). Since the last game of the 2013 season, this position has been served by the Stampede Drumline, known outside of Buffalo as Downbeat Percussion.[152][153]

The Bills have several theme songs associated with them. The most popular is a variation of the Isley Brothers hit "Shout," recorded by Scott Kemper,[154] which served as the Bills' official promotional song from 1987 through 1990s. It can be heard at every Bills home game following a field goal or touchdown and at the game's end if the Bills win. The Bills' unofficial fight song, "Go Bills," was penned by Bills head coach Marv Levy in the mid-1990s on a friendly wager with his players that he will write the song if the team won a particular game.[155] In 2024, the Bills offensive players began a tradition of singing along to "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers as a hype song, usually late in games.[156][157]

Supporters

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"Bills Mafia" redirects here. Not to be confused with Buffalo mafia.

The "Bills Backers" are the official fan organization of the Buffalo Bills. It has over 200 chapters across North America, Europe, and Oceania.[158] Also notable is the "Bills Mafia," organized via Twitter beginning in 2010 by Del Reid, Leslie Wille, and Breyon Harris;[159] the phrase "Bills Mafia" had by 2017 grown to unofficially represent the broad community surrounding and encompassing the team as a whole, and players who join the Bills often speak of joining the Bills Mafia. Outsiders frequently treat the Bills' fan base in derogatory terms, especially since the 2010s, partly because of negative press coverage of select fans' wilder antics.[160] In 2020, the Bills filed to trademark the "Bills Mafia" name.[161]

Bills fans are particularly well known for their wearing of Zubaz zebra-printed sportswear; so much is the association between Bills fans and Zubaz that when a revival of the company opened its first brick-and-mortar storefront, it chose Western New York as its first location.[162] The "wing hat," a hat shaped like a spicy chicken wing (much in the same style as the Green Bay Packers' Cheesehead hats), can also frequently be seen atop Bills fans' heads, having originated as promotional merchandise by the Anchor Bar, the purported inventors of the modern chicken wing as a delicacy.[163] Another hat associated with the Bills fandom is the water buffalo hat, resembling the headgear of the fictional Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes seen in the TV series The Flintstones; this hat gained particular popularity with the Water Buffalo Club 716, a community of over 2,000 Bills supporters from around the world founded in 2021 by Therese Forton-Barnes.[164][165] In 1982, a local grocery store introduced the Whammy Weenie as a promotional item, a maraca-like hot dog-shaped device, painted green (which was not a Bills color, but instead painted as such in reference to a military slang term), that Bills fans were supposed to shake at the team's opponents; Bills owner Ralph Wilson, after having seen a Whammy Weenie dangled in front of his suite in the midst of a disappointing season, ordered the Whammy Weenie to be discontinued due to the double entendre it posed.[166]

Bills Mafia members are also well known for jumping off of elevated surfaces (often cars or RVs) into folding tables, in the style of professional wrestlers, during the pre-game tailgate.[167][168]

Bills fans are noted for their frequent support for charitable causes.[169] After the Bills received help in breaking their 17-year playoff drought on a last-minute Cincinnati Bengals victory, Bills fans crowdfunded the charities of Bengals players Andy Dalton and Tyler Boyd with hundreds of thousands of dollars as a gesture of thanks.[170][171] Also in 2020, following a November 8 upset win over the Seattle Seahawks led by one of the best career performances by quarterback Josh Allen,[172] news emerged that Allen had elected to take the field after having been given the option to sit out the contest as he had received news of his grandmother's death only the night before. Fans showed support for their team and community by donating nearly $700,000 to the Oishei Children's Hospital, an organization supported by Allen throughout his time in Buffalo.[173][174] Following the Bills' defeat of the Baltimore Ravens in the 2020–21 NFL playoffs and an injury to Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson late in that game, Bills fans crowdfunded his favorite charity, Blessings in a Backpack.[175]

The Bills are one of the favorite teams of ESPN announcer Chris Berman, who picked the Bills to reach the Super Bowl nearly every year in the 1990s. Berman often uses the catchphrase, "No one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills!" Berman gave the induction speech for Bills owner Ralph Wilson when Wilson was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009.[176]

The Bills were also the favorite team of late NBC political commentator Tim Russert, a South Buffalo native, who often referred to the Bills on his Sunday morning talk show, Meet the Press. (His son, Luke, is also a notable fan of the team.) CNN's Wolf Blitzer, also a Buffalo native, has proclaimed he is also a fan,[177] as has CBS Evening News lead anchor and Tonawanda native Jeff Glor and DNC Chairman Tom Perez.[178][179]

ESPN anchor Kevin Connors is also a noted Bills fan, dating to his time attending Ithaca College. Actor Nick Bakay, a Buffalo native, is also a well-known Bills fan; he has discussed the team in segments of NFL Top 10. Character actor William Fichtner, raised in Cheektowaga, is a fan,[180] and did a commercial for the team in 2014.[181] In 2015, Fichtner also narrated the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary on the Bills' four Super Bowl appearances, "Four Falls of Buffalo". Former Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders (an in-law to former Bills kicker Todd Schlopy) has professed her fandom of the team. Actor Christopher McDonald, who was raised in Romulus, New York, is a fan of the team.[182]

Persons notable almost entirely for their Bills fandom include Ken "Pinto Ron" Johnson, whose antics while appearing at every Bills home and away game since 1994 earned enough scrutiny that his tailgate parties were banned from stadium property on order of the league;[183] John Lang, an Elvis impersonator who carries a large guitar that he uses as a billboard;[184] Marc Miller, whose professional wrestling promo-style interview with WGRZ prior to Super Bowl XXVII (distinguished by the line "Dallas is going down, Gary!" and picked up at the time by The George Michael Sports Machine) was rediscovered in 2019;[185] and Ezra Castro, also known as "Pancho Billa", a native of El Paso, Texas who wore a large sombrero and lucha mask in Bills colors. Castro was diagnosed with a spinal tumor that had metastasized in 2017; he was invited on stage during the 2018 NFL draft to read one of the Bills' selections.[186] Castro died on May 14, 2019.[187]

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Several former Buffalo Bills players earned a name in politics in the late 20th century after their playing careers had ended, nearly always as members of the Republican Party. The most famous of these was quarterback Jack Kemp, who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Western New York in 1971—two years after his playing career ended and remained there for nearly two decades, serving as the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States under Bob Dole in 1996.[188][189] Kemp's backup, Ed Rutkowski, served as county executive of Erie County from 1979 to 1987.[190] Former tight end Jay Riemersma, defensive tackle Fred Smerlas and defensive end Phil Hansen have all run for Congress, though all three either lost or withdrew from their respective races.[191][192]

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Notes

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  1. ^ The New York Giants and New York Jets play at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, despite being named after New York.
  2. ^ The most Super Bowl losses are held by the Denver Broncos and New England Patriots at five, but both have won the championship in their history.

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