Buffalo Bills

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Buffalo Bills
Current season
Established 1960 Play in and headquartered in Ralph Wilson Stadium Orchard Park, New York Regular Season Record (All-Time) 376-436-8 (.468) Postseason Record (All-Time) 14-15 (.482)
Buffalo Bills logo Logo
League/conference affiliations
American Football League (1960–1969) Eastern Division (1960–1969) National Football League (1970–present) American Football Conference (1970–present) AFC East (1970–present)
Current uniform
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Team colors	Royal Blue, Red
Mascot	Billy Buffalo
Personnel
Owner(s)	Ralph Wilson
CEO	Russ Brandon
President	Russ Brandon
General manager	Doug Whaley
Head coach	Doug Marrone
Team history
Buffalo Bills (1960–present)
Championships
League championships (2) AFL Championships (2) 1964, 1965
Conference championships (4) AFC: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993
Division championships (10) AFL East: 1964, 1965, 1966 AFC East: 1980, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995
Playoff appearances (17)
AFL: 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 NFL: 1974, 1980, 1981, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999
Home fields
War Memorial Stadium (1960–72) Ralph Wilson Stadium (1973–present) also known as Rich Stadium (1973–98) also known as Bills Stadium (1998) Rogers Centre (2008–17) (Bills Toronto Series)

The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in Orchard Park, New York. They are members of the East Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Bills are the only team to win four consecutive conference championships, and are the only NFL team to play in four consecutive Super Bowl games, all of which they lost. They have only had one owner, Ralph Wilson, in their fifty-three years of existence. They have also featured many of the League's most prominent and popular players, including Jack Kemp, Cookie Gilchrist, Bob Kalsu, O.J. Simpson, Bruce Smith, Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas, and Andre Reed.

Since 1972, the Bills have played home games at Ralph Wilson Stadium in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park. The Bills are the only NFL team to play their home games within New York state. (Both the New York Giants and New York Jets play in East Rutherford, New Jersey.) Since the 2008 NFL season the Bills have played one regular season home game per season in Toronto as part of the Bills Toronto Series. The Bills conduct summer training camp at St. John Fisher College in Pittsford, New York, an eastern suburb of Rochester. In January 2013, Doug Marrone agreed to become the next head coach of the Bills. The Bills currently have the longest playoff drought in the NFL, having not appeared since 1999, and the longest active streak of losing seasons, having not finished .500 or better since 2004.

History

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 and joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL merger in 1970. The Bills won two consecutive American Football League titles in 1964 and 1965, but the club has not won a league championship since then.

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. 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 another team named the Bills in the late 1940s.

Buffalo’s team in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) in 1946 was the Bisons. In 1947 a contest was held to rename the team, which was owned by James Breuil of the Frontier Oil Company. The winning entry suggested Bills, reflecting on the famous western frontiersman, Buffalo Bill Cody. Carrying the “frontier” theme further, the winning contestant further offered that the team was being supported by Frontier Oil and was “opening a new frontier in sports in Western New York.” When Buffalo joined the new American Football League in 1960, the name of the city’s earlier pro football entry was adopted. - See more at:

Logos and uniforms

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Buffalo Bills uniform: 1975–1983
*solid red socks were worn from '82–'83

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Buffalo Bills uniform: 1987–2001

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Buffalo Bills uniform 2002–2010

The Bills' uniforms in its first two seasons were based on those of the Detroit Lions at the time.

In 1962, the standing red bison was designated as the logo and took its place on a white helmet. In 1962, the team's colors also changed to red, white, and blue. The team switched to blue jerseys with red and white stripes on the shoulders. the helmets were white with a red center stripe. The jerseys again saw a change in 1964 when the shoulders 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.

The Bills introduced red pants worn with the white jerseys in 1973, the last year of the standing buffalo helmet. The blue pants remained through 1985. 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, which is still the primary one used by the franchise, was designed by aerospace designer Stevens Wright in 1974.

In 1984, the helmet's background 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 Indianapolis Colts, the Miami Dolphins, and the New England Patriots, who all also wore white helmets at that point. Ferguson said that "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." (The Patriots now use a silver helmet, the Colts have since been realigned to the AFC South, and the New York Jets, who switched to green helmets after the 1978 season, have since switched back to white helmets.)

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 main 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 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.

Buffalo sporadically wore white at home in the 1980s, but stopped doing so before their Super Bowl years. On November 6, 2011, against the New York Jets, the Bills wore white at home for the first time since 1986 and did it again on November 15, 2012, against the Miami Dolphins. Buffalo has wore white twice during the 2013 season. First on September 15, 2013, against the Carolina Panthers, and again on November 3, 2013, against the Kansas City Chiefs.

Playoffs

• 1963 AFL Eastern Division Playoff: Boston Patriots 26, Buffalo Bills 8
• 1964 AFL Championship: Buffalo Bills 20, San Diego Chargers 7
• 1965 AFL Championship: Buffalo Bills 23, San Diego Chargers 0
• 1966 AFL Championship: Kansas City Chiefs 31, Buffalo Bills 7
• 1974 Divisional Playoffs: Pittsburgh Steelers 32, Buffalo Bills 14
• 1980 Divisional Playoffs: San Diego Chargers 20, Buffalo Bills 14
• 1981 Wild Card Game: Buffalo Bills 31, New York Jets 27
• 1981 Divisional Playoffs: Cincinnati Bengals 28, Buffalo Bills 21
• 1988 Divisional Playoffs: Buffalo Bills 17, Houston Oilers 10
• 1988 AFC Championship: Cincinnati Bengals 21, Buffalo Bills 10
• 1989 Divisional Playoffs: Cleveland Browns 34, Buffalo Bills 30
• 1990 Divisional Playoffs: Buffalo Bills 44, Miami Dolphins 34
• 1990 AFC Championship: Buffalo Bills 51, Los Angeles Raiders 3
• Super Bowl XXV: New York Giants 20, Buffalo Bills 19
• 1991 Divisional Playoffs: Buffalo Bills 37, Kansas City Chiefs 14
• AFC Championship: Buffalo Bills 10, Denver Broncos 7
• Super Bowl XXVI: Washington Redskins 37, Buffalo Bills 24
• 1992 AFC Wild Card Game: Buffalo Bills 41, Houston Oilers 38 OT
• 1992 AFC Divisional Playoffs: Buffalo Bills 24, 1992 Pittsburgh Steelers 3
• 1992 AFC Championship: Buffalo Bills 29, Miami Dolphins 10
• Super Bowl XXVII: Dallas Cowboys 52, Buffalo Bills 17
• 1993 Divisional Playoffs: Buffalo Bills 29, Los Angeles Raiders 23
• AFC Championship: Buffalo Bills 30, Kansas City Chiefs 13
• Super Bowl XXVIII: Dallas Cowboys 30, Buffalo Bills 13
• 1995 Wild Card Game: Buffalo Bills 37, Miami Dolphins 22
• 1995 Divisional Playoffs: Pittsburgh Steelers 40, Buffalo Bills 21
• 1996 Wild Card Game: Jacksonville Jaguars 30, Buffalo Bills 27
• 1998 Wild Card Game: Miami Dolphins 24, Buffalo Bills 17
• 1999 Wild Card Game: Tennessee Titans 22, Buffalo Bills 16

• • Playoff record 14 wins, 15 losses

Players

Current Roster

Buffalo Bills roster

Quarterbacks 17 Josh Allen  6 Shane Buechele -- Ben DiNucci 11 Mitchell Trubisky Running backs  4 James Cook 22 Ray Davis 37 Darrynton Evans 41 Reggie Gilliam FB 20 Frank Gore Jr. 26 Ty Johnson Wide receivers 14 Chase Claypool  0 Keon Coleman 19 K. J. Hamler 13 Mack Hollins 87 Andy Isabella 16 Xavier Johnson 82 Lawrence Keys  1 Curtis Samuel 10 Khalil Shakir 80 Tyrell Shavers 18 Justin Shorter 89 Bryan Thompson 81 Marquez Valdes-Scantling Tight ends 84 Zach Davidson 86 Dalton Kincaid 88 Dawson Knox 83 Tre' McKitty 85 Quintin Morris

Offensive linemen 70 Alec Anderson G 60 Keaton Bills G 61 Gunner Britton G 79 Spencer Brown T 77 Will Clapp C 67 Travis Clayton T (Int.) 71 La'el Collins T 73 Dion Dawkins T 76 David Edwards G 65 Mike Edwards T 75 Richard Gouraige T 68 Tylan Grable T 63 Kevin Jarvis G 66 Connor McGovern C 64 O'Cyrus Torrence G 74 Ryan Van Demark T 62 Sedrick Van Pran-Granger C Defensive linemen 51 Eli Ankou DT 97 Rondell Bothroyd DE 90 DeWayne Carter DT 96 Kameron Cline DE 53 Branson Deen DT 57 A. J. Epenesa DE 98 Austin Johnson DT 59 Kingsley Jonathan DE 92 DaQuan Jones DT 91 Ed Oliver DT 50 Gregory Rousseau DE 94 Dawuane Smoot DE 56 Javon Solomon DE 61 Gable Steveson DT 99 Casey Toohill DE 93 DeShawn Williams DT

Linebackers 44 Joe Andreessen MLB 43 Terrel Bernard MLB 45 Deion Jones MLB 58 Matt Milano OLB 40 Von Miller OLB 52 Nicholas Morrow MLB 49 Shayne Simon LB 54 Baylon Spector OLB 48 Edefuan Ulofoshio MLB 42 Dorian Williams OLB Defensive backs 47 Christian Benford CB 24 Cole Bishop FS 32 Kyron Brown CB 35 Terrell Burgess S 33 Te'Cory Couch CB 29 Dee Delaney S 31 Rasul Douglas CB 21 Mike Edwards FS  5 Kaiir Elam CB  3 Damar Hamlin FS 25 Daequan Hardy CB 46 Ja'Marcus Ingram CB 27 Kareem Jackson S  7 Taron Johnson CB 39 Cam Lewis FS 38 Keni-H Lovely CB  9 Taylor Rapp SS 36 Kendall Williamson S Special teams  2 Tyler Bass K 69 Reid Ferguson LS  8 Sam Martin P

Reserve lists 72 Tommy Doyle T (PUPTooltip Physically unable to perform) 55 David Ugwoegbu DE (Waived/injured) Rookies in italics Roster updated August 12, 2024 Depth chart Transactions 90 active (+1 exempt), 2 inactive → AFC rosters → NFC rosters

Retired numbers

Buffalo Bills retired numbers
N°	Player	Position	Tenure	Notes
12	Jim Kelly	QB	1986–96	Previously worn by Joe Ferguson, QB, 1973–84.

The only number officially retired is the #12 worn by Kelly, although the Bills have other numbers no longer issued to any player or in reduced circulation:

Unofficially retired:

• 32 O.J. Simpson, RB, 1969–77
• 34 Thurman Thomas, RB, 1988–99; previously worn by Cookie Gilchrist, RB, 1962–64
• 78 Bruce Smith, DE, 1985–99 (although guard Ruben Brown used 78 as his practice jersey; he wore 79 on the field)

Reduced circulation:

• 15 Jack Kemp, QB, 1962–69
• 44 Elbert Dubenion, WR, 1960–68
• 66 Billy Shaw, OG, 1961–69
• 83 Andre Reed, WR, 1985–99 (Lee Evans III wore #83 by special permission)
• 94, see below

Since the earliest days of the team, 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.' The tradition was broken in 1969 when reserve running back Preston Ridlehuber was issued number 31 for one game while his normal number 36 jersey was repaired by equipment manager Tony Marchitte. The number 31 was not issued again until 1990 when first round draft choice James (J.D.) Williams wore it for his first two seasons. The number has since been released for use by any player and is currently being worn by starting free safety Jairus Byrd. Byrd had used number 32 in college, but switched to 31 because the team does not issue Simpson's former number 32.

Number 94 is also in reduced circulation, and for reasons unknown went unissued until the 1987 season, when two replacement players wore the number during the players' strike that year. It has traditionally been reserved for quality defensive players; among those that have worn it include special teams standout Mark Pike, defensive end Bryce Fisher, defensive end Aaron Schobel, and current user, defensive end Mario Williams.

Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Distinguished Service Award Recipients

• 1986 – Ben Williams
• 1987 – Joe DeLamielleure
• 1988 – Steve Freeman
• 1989 – Jerry Butler
• 1990 – Tim Vogler
• 1991 – Joe Ferguson
• 1992 – Ken Jones
• 1993 – Booker Edgerson
• 1994 – George “Butch” Byrd
• 1995 – Tony Greene
• 1996 – Frank Lewis
• 1997 – Steven Paganelli

• 1996 – Roland Hooks
• 1997 – Jim Ritcher
• 1997 – Charley Ferguson
• 1998 – Stew Barber
• 1998 – Ed Rutkowski
• 1999 – Fred Smerlas
• 1999 – Reggie McKenzie
• 2000 – Darryl Talley
• 2000 – Ernie Warlick
• 2001 – Steve Tasker
• 2001 – Kent Hull

• 2002 – Don Beebe
• 2003 – Thurman Thomas
• 2004 – Paul Maguire
• 2005 – Frank Reich
• 2006 – Phil Hansen
• 2007 – Lou Piccone
• 2007 – Denny Lynch
• 2008 – Mark Kelso
• 2009 – Andre Reed
• 2010 – Ruben Brown
• 2011 – Scott Norwood

Buffalo Bills Wall of Fame

• 1980 – O.J. Simpson
• 1984 – Jack Kemp
• 1985 – Pat McGroder
• 1987 – Tom Sestak
• 1988 – Billy Shaw
• 1989 – Ralph C. Wilson Jr.
• 1992 – The 12th Man
• 1993 – Elbert Dubenion
• 1994 – Mike Stratton
• 1995 – Joe Ferguson

• 1996 – Marv Levy
• 1997 – Joe DeLamielleure
• 1998 – Robert James
• 1999 – Edward Abramoski
• 2000 – Bob Kalsu
• 2000 – George Saimes
• 2001 – Jim Kelly
• 2001 – Fred Smerlas
• 2002 – Kent Hull

• 2003 – Darryl Talley
• 2004 – Jim Ritcher
• 2005 – Thurman Thomas
• 2006 – Andre Reed
• 2007 – Steve Tasker
• 2008 – Bruce Smith
• 2010 – Booker Edgerson
• 2011 – Phil Hansen
• 2012 – Bill Polian

Pro Football Hall Of Fame

• O.J. Simpson (1985)
• Billy Shaw (1999)
• Marv Levy (2001)
• Jim Kelly (2002)
• James Lofton (2003)
• Joe DeLamielleure (2003)
• Thurman Thomas (2007)
• Bruce Smith (2009)
• Ralph Wilson (2009)
• Andre Reed (2014)

All-time first round draft picks

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

Recent Pro Bowl selections

• 2013 Season - Kyle Williams (Defensive Tackle), Jarius Byrd (Free Safety), Mario Williams (defensive tackle), Marcell Dareus (defensive tackle - Injury Replacement)
• 2012 Season – Kyle Williams (Defensive Tackle – Injury Replacement), CJ Spiller (Running Back – Injury Replacement), Jarius Byrd (Free Safety – Injury Replacement)
• 2011 Season – No selections
• 2010 Season – Kyle Williams (Defensive Tackle – Injury Replacement)
• 2009 Season – Jairus Byrd (Safety)
• 2008 Season – Jason Peters (Starting Offensive Tackle), Marshawn Lynch (Running Back – Injury Replacement)
• 2007 Season – Jason Peters (Offensive Tackle), Aaron Schobel (Defensive End – Injury Replacement)
• 2006 Season – Aaron Schobel (Defensive End), Brian Moorman (Punter)
• 2005 Season – Brian Moorman (Punter), Mike Schneck (Need Player)
• 2004 Season – Takeo Spikes (Linebacker), Ruben Brown (Offensive Guard)
• 2003 Season – Drew Bledsoe(Quarterback – Injury Replacement) Ruben Brown(Guard – Injury Replacement)Travis Henry(Running Back – Injury Replacement) Eric Moulds(Wide Receiver – Injury Replacement)

Coaches of note

Head coaches

Main article: List of Buffalo Bills head coaches

Current staff

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 Head coach – Sean McDermott Offensive coaches Offensive coordinator – Joe Brady Quarterbacks – Ronald Curry Running backs – Kelly Skipper Wide receivers – Adam Henry Tight ends – Rob Boras Offensive line – Aaron Kromer Offensive assistant/offensive line – Austin Gund Offensive quality control – DJ Mangas Offensive quality control – Kyle Shurmur Passing game specialist/game management – Marc Lubick			Defensive coaches Defensive coordinator – Bobby Babich Defensive line – Marcus West Assistant defensive line – Matt Edwards Linebackers – Al Holcomb Cornerbacks – Jahmile Addae Nickel/senior defensive assistant – Scott Booker Safeties – Joe Danna Defensive quality control – Christian Taylor 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 → Coaching staff → Front office → More NFL staffs

Radio and television

Main article: List of Buffalo Bills broadcasters

The Buffalo Bills Radio Network is currently flagshipped at WGR, AM 550 in Buffalo. John Murphy is the team's current play-by-play announcer; he was a color commentator alongside, and eventually succeeded, longtime voice Van Miller after Miller's retirement at the end of the 2003 NFL season. Mark Kelso serves as the color analyst. The Bills radio network has approximately seventeen affiliates in upstate New York and one affiliate, CJCL 590AM (The Fan) in Toronto. As of early 2012, it is composed mostly of WGR, Entercom's sister stations WCMF (96.5 FM) and WROC-AM 950 in Rochester, and a fleet of independent AM and FM stations across upstate New York from Jamestown east to Albany. Previous flagship Citadel Broadcasting was purchased by Cumulus Media, who in turn ceased carrying Bills games at the end of the 2011 season, leaving the network without affiliates in Syracuse, Binghamton, and Erie. (The Syracuse affiliations were later picked up by Galaxy Communications.)

Buffalo is one of ten teams that is contracted with Compass Media Networks to syndicate selected games nationwide.

During the preseason, most games are televised on Buffalo's ABC affiliate, WKBW-TV channel 7, with several other affiliates in western New York. These games are simulcast on sister stations WTVH in Syracuse, WICU in Erie, WHAM-TV in Rochester, and beginning in 2008, CITY-TV in Toronto. Ray Bentley, a former Bills linebacker, does play by play, while CBS analyst and former Bills special teams player Steve Tasker does color commentary on these games. WHAM-TV sports anchor Mike Catalana is the sideline reporter. Since 2008, preseason games have been broadcast in high definition.

In the event that regular season or, should the situation arise, postseason games are broadcast by a cable outlet (ESPN or NFL Network), the Bills' local broadcast outlet since the 2012 season has been WBBZ-TV, whose upstart sports department is under the supervision of former Empire Sports Network general manager Bob Koshinski.

Training camp sites

• 1960–1962 Roycroft Inn, East Aurora, New York
• 1963–1967 Camelot Hotel, Blasdell, New York
• 1968–1980 Niagara University, Lewiston, New York
• 1981–1999 State University of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia, New York
• 2000 – present, St. John Fisher College, Pittsford, New York

Mascots, cheerleaders and marching band

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

The Bills' cheerleaders are known as the Buffalo Jills. The Jills are not owned by the Bills, but instead are a separate organization funded primarily by the Buffalo Bills Radio Network, a subsidiary of Entercom.

The Attica High School Marching Band is the official marching band of the Buffalo Bills. Along with the Baltimore Ravens and the Washington Redskins, the Bills are one of only three teams in the NFL to designate an official marching band. The Marching Band performs a yearly pregame. However, the Bills have also used the marching bands from the University of Pittsburgh and Syracuse University at home games in recent years.

The Bills have several theme songs associated with them. One is a variation of the Isley Brothers hit Shout, which served as the Bills' official promotional song throughout the 1980s and 1990s. It was officially replaced circa 2000 with "The Power of the Bills," although "Shout" remains in use. 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.

In the bone-chilling winter, it is not uncommon to see shirtless fans painted with Bills decals, especially the "B-I-L-L-S" lettering.

The Bills also have a huge fan base that goes by the name "Bills Mafia", that use the Twitter symbol slightly altered to resemble the charging Buffalo.

In popular culture

Buffalo's rivalry with the Miami Dolphins is referenced on Steve Martin's 1979 album Comedy Is Not Pretty on the track "How To Meet A Girl." On the track Martin simulates chatter about football at a party and one "partier" expresses disbelief that Buffalo could beat Miami – at the time of the album's release the Dolphins had won 18 straight over the Bills.

In the 2007 "Doctor Who" episode "The Sound of Drums", A man watching television, in a #12 Buffalo Bills shirt is attacked by a spherical alien.

In the 1996 X-Files episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man", the titular character, a member of a shadowy government cabal, states that the Buffalo Bills will not win a Super Bowl while he lives.

The Buffalo Bills were featured on the direct-to-TV movie, Second String and in the Vincent Gallo drama Buffalo 66. The Buffalo Bills are mentioned in the 1995 movie Heavyweights. The character Josh (Shaun Weiss) says, "Perkis caved like the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl", referring to their string of four straight Super Bowl losses in the early 1990s.

On the show "Malcolm in the Middle", you can spot a Buffalo Bills 'football field' rug in the boys' bedroom.

In the 1996 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman episode S04E01, "Lord of the Flies", Clark picks up a blue Buffalo Bills hat with the Charging Buffalo emblem in the center and uses it to help disguise himself. Dean Cain, who played Clark Kent/Superman, had previously tried out for the Bills. In a later episode, he lets it be known that the Metropolis Mammoths were playing the Bills.

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. The Bills were also a favorite 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. Actor Nick Bakay, a Buffalo native, is also a well-known Bills fan; he has discussed the team in segments of NFL Top 10.

In an April 2011 episode of the television series 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin's character Jack Donaghy discovers that, in an alternate future, he would not only be wealthier and more successful, but he would also be the owner of a "New York football team." He later is disappointed to learn that the team is not the New York Giants or New York Jets, but the Buffalo Bills.

The Bills are the team that eventually unseats the Orlando Breakers, the fictional NFL team that serves as the focus of the sitcom Coach in later seasons, in the playoffs.

In the movie Wind, One of Will Parker's crew member is seen wearing a Buffalo Bills hat.

Several former Buffalo Bills players have earned a name in politics after their playing careers had ended, almost always as members of the Republican Party. The most famous of these was quarterback Jack Kemp, who was elected to Congress from Western New York almost immediately after his playing career ended and remained there for nearly three decades, serving as the Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States under Bob Dole in 1996. Kemp's backup, Ed Rutkowski, served as county executive of Erie County from 1979 to 1987. 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. Quarterback Jim Kelly and running back Thurman Thomas have also both been mentioned as potential candidates for political office, although both have declined all requests to date.

See also

• List of American Football League players
• Major North American professional sports teams

External links

• Official website