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Buffalo Bills
Buffalo Bills
Current season
Established October 28, 1959
; 60 years ago
[1]
First season
:
1960
Play
in and headquartered in
Bills Stadium
Orchard Park, New York
[2]
Logo
Wordmark
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
Team colors
Royal blue, red, white, navy blue
[3]
[4]
[5]
Fight song
"
Shout
"
Mascot
Billy Buffalo
Personnel
Owner(s)
Kim Pegula
Terry Pegula
Head coach
Sean McDermott
General manager
Brandon Beane
Team history
Buffalo Bills (1960–present)
Championships
League championships
(2)
AFL Championships
(pre-1970
AFL–NFL merger
) (2)
1964
,
1965
Conference championships (4)
AFC:
1990
,
1991
,
1992
,
1993
Division championships (10)
AFL Eastern:
1964
,
1965
,
1966
AFC East:
1980
,
1988
,
1989
,
1990
,
1991
,
1993
,
1995
Playoff appearances (19)
AFL:
1963
,
1964
,
1965
,
1966
NFL:
1974
,
1980
,
1981
,
1988
,
1989
,
1990
,
1991
,
1992
,
1993
,
1995
,
1996
,
1998
,
1999
,
2017
,
2019
Home fields
War Memorial Stadium
(1960–1972)
Bills Stadium
(1973–present)
The
Buffalo Bills
are a professional
American football
team based in the
Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area
. They compete in the
National Football League
(NFL) as a member club of the league's
American Football Conference
(AFC)
East
division. The team plays its home games at
Bills Stadium
in
Orchard Park, New York
. The Bills are the only NFL team that plays its home games in the state of
New York
.
[6]
The Bills conduct summer training camp at
St. John Fisher College
in
Pittsford, New York
, an eastern suburb of
Rochester
.
[7]
The Bills began play as an original franchise of the
American Football League
(AFL) in
1960
. The club joined the NFL as a result of the
AFL–NFL merger
for the
1970 season
. The 1964 and 1965 Bills were the only teams representing Buffalo that won major league professional sports championships ("back-to-back" American Football League Championships). The Bills are the only team to win four consecutive
conference championships
and are the only NFL team to lose four consecutive
Super Bowl
games. The team was owned by
Ralph Wilson
from the team's founding in 1960, until his death in 2014 at the age of 95. After his death, Wilson's estate reached an agreement to sell the team to
Terry
and
Kim Pegula
, which was approved by the other NFL team owners on October 8, 2014.
[8]
The Bills formerly possessed the
longest active playoff drought
in any of the four major professional sports in North America: they did not qualify to play in the
NFL playoffs
from 1999 until 2017 and were the last NFL team (and last team in the
major North American professional sports leagues
overall) to qualify for the playoffs in the 21st century.
[9]
[10]
Since then, the Bills have reached the playoffs in two of the past three NFL seasons and also clinched their first 10-win season in two decades in December 2019.
History
[
edit
]
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.
[11]
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.
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
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
. After being pushed to the brink of failure in the mid-1980s, the collapse of the
United States Football League
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, 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.
The rise of the division rival
New England Patriots
under
Tom Brady
, along with numerous failed attempts at rebuilding in the 2000s and 2010s, prevented 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. It was broken when the Bills secured a wild-card berth on December 31, 2017. 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
.
[8]
Name origins
[
edit
]
In 1947 a contest was held to rename the AAFC Bisons, 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 offered 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.
[12]
Logos and uniforms
[
edit
]
Bills logo, 1962–1973
The Bills' uniforms in its first two seasons were based on those of the
Detroit Lions
at the time.
[3]
[13]
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.
[3]
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 those worn by the Buffalo Bisons AHL hockey team of the same era. The helmets were white with a red center stripe.
[3]
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.
[14]
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
.
[15]
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.
[16]
[17]
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."
[18]
(The Patriots have worn silver helmets since 1993, the Colts have since been realigned to the
AFC South
, and the
New York Jets
have since switched back to green-colored helmets after 20 years with white ones in
2019
.)
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
.
[4]
[19]
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
. Since 2011, the Bills have worn white for a home game 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.
[20]
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.
[21]
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.
[22]
Rivalries
[
edit
]
The Bills have rivalries with their three
AFC East
opponents, and also have had occasional or historical rivalries with other teams such as the
Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts
(a former divisional rival),
Kansas City Chiefs
,
Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans
,
Cleveland Browns
, and
Dallas Cowboys
.
[23]
They also play an annual preseason game against the
Detroit Lions
.
Divisional rivalries
[
edit
]
Miami Dolphins
[
edit
]
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 teams. 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 matchup of the 1980s). Fortunes changed in the following decades with the rise of
Jim Kelly
as Buffalo's franchise quarterback, and 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,
[24]
and the two teams have typically been close to each other in win-loss records. Miami leads the overall series 61–48–1 as of 2018, but Buffalo has the advantage in the playoffs at 3–1, including a win in the
1992 AFC Championship Game
.
[25]
New England Patriots
[
edit
]
The rivalry with the
New England Patriots
first started when both teams were original franchises in the
American Football League
prior to the NFL-AFL merger. After the rise of head coach
Bill Belichick
and quarterback
Tom Brady
in New England, the Patriots have dominated the AFC East, including the Bills. The Bills-Patriots rivalry in particular has become lopsided as the Patriots are 31–5 against the Bills since Belichick became head coach in 2000. This has led many fans and players in the 2000s and beyond to replace the Dolphins with the Patriots as Buffalo's most hated rival.
[24]
[26]
Overall, the Patriots lead the series 76–43–1 as of 2019.
[27]
The rivalry is also notable as numerous players, including
Drew Bledsoe
,
Doug Flutie
,
Lawyer Milloy
,
Brandon Spikes
,
Scott Chandler
,
Chris Hogan
,
Mike Gillislee
and
Stephon Gilmore
have played for both teams at some point in their careers.
New York Jets
[
edit
]
The Bills and
Jets
were both original AFL teams, and both represent the state of
New York
, though the Jets (since 1984) actually play their games in
East Rutherford, New Jersey
. While the rivalry represents the differences between
New York City
and
Western New York
, it has historically not been as intense as the Bills' rivalries with the Dolphins and Patriots, and the teams' fanbases either have grudging respect or low-key annoyance for each other when the teams are not playing one another. Oftentimes the Bills-Jets rivalry has 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 has become notable again as Bills quarterback
Josh Allen
and Jets quarterback
Sam Darnold
, both drafted in the same year, maintain a friendly rivalry with one another.
[28]
Buffalo leads the series 62–55 as of 2018, including a playoff win in 1981.
[29]
Other rivalries
[
edit
]
Tennessee Titans
[
edit
]
See also:
The Comeback (American football)
and
Music City Miracle
The
Tennessee Titans
(formerly the
Houston Oilers
) share an extended history with the Bills, both teams being original AFL clubs in 1960 and rivals in that league's East Division before the AFL-NFL merger. Matchups were intense in the 1990s with quarterback
Warren Moon
leading the Oilers against Jim Kelly's Bills.
[30]
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,
[30]
and the
Music City Miracle
, in which the now-Titans scored on a near-last-minute kickoff return with a controversial
lateral pass
to stun the Bills 22–16 in 1999.
[31]
The Music City Miracle was notable for being Buffalo's last playoff appearance until 2017.
[32]
The Titans currently lead the series 28–19.
[33]
Cleveland Browns
[
edit
]
Though the Bills and
Cleveland Browns
are in different divisions and did not start playing each other until after 1972, match-ups between the two teams occasionally get heated up due to the proximity and similarity between the cities of Buffalo and Cleveland, though the teams' fanbases otherwise share a mutual respect. As with the Bills–Jets rivalry, the Bills and Browns often share bad luck and have seen their share of ugly games, including a 6–3 Browns win in which the winning quarterback only completed 2 of 17 passes.
[34]
However, there have been other occasions when both teams have been competitive such as in the 1980s and most recently in 2007 and 2014.
[35]
The rivalry also gained heat when former Bills safety
Donte Whitner
was with the Browns.
[36]
The Browns currently lead the series 13–9, including a playoff win in 1990, though the Bills have outscored the Browns in the series.
[37]
The Browns shared a rivalry with the Bills'
predecessors
in the
All-America Football Conference
, playing them twice in the AAFC playoffs before becoming one of three AAFC teams to join the NFL. The Bills were not selected to join the NFL and folded with the rest of the AAFC, leaving Buffalo without professional football until the current Bills were formed in 1959.
[35]
Other AFC rivals
[
edit
]
The Bills and the
Kansas City Chiefs
were also original teams in the AFL and have had a long history against each other, despite never being in the same division. This rivalry heated up recently as the Bills and Chiefs met in consecutive years from 2008 to 2015, and again in 2017.
[38]
The teams have played three playoff games against each other, including the AFL Championship game that determined the AFL's (later AFC) representative in
the first Super Bowl
, with Kansas City winning and going on to face the
Green Bay Packers
in the Super Bowl. However, Buffalo defeated Kansas City in the 1993 AFC championship game to advance to its fourth straight Super Bowl appearance. Buffalo currently leads the series 26-21-1.
[39]
In recent years, bitterness has emerged between the Bills and the
Jacksonville Jaguars
, who had handed Buffalo its first playoff loss in
Bills Stadium
in 1996. Both teams occupy two of the smallest media markets in the NFL. After years of concurrent bottom feeding in the late 2000s and early 2010s, this rivalry has emerged after former Bills head coach
Doug Marrone
, who had quit on the team after the 2014 season, was hired as a coaching assistant for Jacksonville and rose to become the Jaguars' head coach.
[40]
Since then, the series has featured a Bills loss to the Jaguars in
London
,
[41]
an ugly, low-scoring playoff game in 2017,
[42]
trash talk from Jaguars players such as
Jalen Ramsey
and a brawl between the teams in 2018.
[43]
[44]
Playoffs
[
edit
]
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,
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
2017 Wild Card Game
:
Jacksonville Jaguars
10,
Buffalo Bills
3
2019 Wild Card Game
:
Houston Texans
22,
Buffalo Bills
19
OT
Playoff record: 14 wins, 17 losses
[45]
[
obsolete source
]
Notable players
[
edit
]
Retired numbers
[
edit
]
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
. Despite the fact that the Bills have only retired three jersey numbers in franchise history, the team has other numbers no longer issued to any player or in reduced circulation.
[46]
[47]
Buffalo Bills retired numbers
No.
Player
Position
Tenure
Retired
12
Jim Kelly
QB
1986–1996
[46]
November 19, 2001
34
Thurman Thomas
RB
1988–1999
[48]
[49]
October 30, 2018
78
Bruce Smith
DE
1985–1999
[47]
September 15, 2016
Reduced circulation:
[46]
44
Elbert Dubenion
, WR, 1960–1968
66
Billy Shaw
, OG, 1961–1969
83
Andre Reed
, WR, 1985–1999
(
Lee Evans III
wore No. 83 by special permission)
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.' 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 issued again until 1990 when first round draft choice
James (J.D.) Williams
wore it for his first two seasons; it has since been returned to general circulation, with safety
Dean Marlowe
wearing the number in 2019.
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.
[50]
Number 15 was historically only issued sparingly after the retirement of
Jack Kemp
,
[46]
but was later returned to general circulation. Receiver
John Brown
wears the number as of 2019.
Number 1 has also only rarely been used, for reasons never explained. Kicker
Mike Hollis
, who played one season for the Bills in 2002, was the most recent to wear the number in the regular season. It went 17 years without being reissued before
David Sills
was assigned it during the 2019 preseason.
Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Distinguished Service Award Recipients
[
edit
]
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
,
Charley Ferguson
1998 –
Stew Barber
,
Ed Rutkowski
1999 –
Fred Smerlas
,
Reggie McKenzie
2000 –
Darryl Talley
,
Ernie Warlick
2001 –
Steve Tasker
,
Kent Hull
2002 –
Don Beebe
2003 –
Thurman Thomas
2004 –
Paul Maguire
2005 –
Frank Reich
2006 –
Phil Hansen
2007 –
Lou Piccone
, Denny Lynch
2008 –
Mark Kelso
2009 –
Andre Reed
2010 –
Ruben Brown
2011 –
Scott Norwood
[51]
2012 –
Chris Mohr
2013 –
Al Bemiller
2014 –
Russ Brandon
[52]
Buffalo Bills Wall of Fame
[
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]
Elected 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
C
/
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
DB
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
[
edit
]
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
[53]
81
Terrell Owens
WR
2009
2018
Coaches and Executives
Name
Position
Tenure
Inducted
Marv Levy
HC
GM
1986–1997
2006–2007
2001
Ralph Wilson
Owner
1959–2014
2009
Bill Polian
GM
1984–1992
2015
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We strive to find rare and unusual vintage pieces to match up with your special collection.
Returns are readily accepted if the item(s) is the same as described. Item(s) must be in the exact condition as delivered. Buyer pays return shipping.
Items .00 or more will be shipped with tracking.
Items 0.00 or more will be shipped with insurance.
Combined shipping discount for multiple purchases (Please wait for us to send invoice for 2 or more items).
Please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns.
Be sure to check out our "ever changing" inventory of vintage postage stamps, postal covers, postal cards, billheads, letterheads, stock certificates, stock coupons, bank checks, railroad and steamship ephemera, Civil War ephemera, World War I ephemera, World War II ephemera, promissory notes plus many other special items we can pass onto our customers.
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INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING:
USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL INTERNATIONAL/FIRST CLASS PACKAGE INTERNATIONAL SERVICE.
DELIVERY TIMES WILL VARY BY LOCATION FOR INTERNATIONAL BUYERS.