Buffalo Bills - wikipedia Buffalo Bills For the American bison hunter, see Buffalo Bill. For other uses, see Buffalo Bills ( disambiguation ). Not to be confused with Buffalo Bulls, the collegiate team of the State University of New York at Buffalo. Buffalo Bills Current season Established October 28, 1959 ; 59 years ago ( October 28, 1959 ) First season : 1960 Play in and headquartered in New Era Field Orchard Park, New York 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 Fight song `` Shout '', among others Mascot Billy Buffalo Personnel Owner ( s ) Terrence and Kim Pegula CEO Terrence Pegula President Kim Pegula General manager Brandon Beane Head coach Sean McDermott 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 East : 1964, 1965, 1966 AFC East : 1980, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995 Playoff appearances ( 18 ) AFL : 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 NFL : 1974, 1980, 1981, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2017 Home fields War Memorial Stadium ( 1960 -- 1972 ) New Era Field ( 1973 -- present ) 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 club of the league 's American Football Conference ( AFC ) East division. The team plays their home games at New Era Field in Orchard Park, New York. The Bills are the only NFL team that plays its home games in the state of New York. The Bills conduct summer training camp at St. John Fisher College in Pittsford, New York, an eastern suburb of Rochester. 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. 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 compete in the playoffs in the 21st century. Contents 1 History 2 Logos and uniforms 3 Rivalries 3.1 Divisional rivalries 3.1. 1 Miami Dolphins 3.1. 2 New England Patriots 3.1. 3 New York Jets 3.2 Other rivalries 3.2. 1 Kansas City Chiefs 3.2. 2 Tennessee Titans 3.2. 3 Cleveland Browns 4 Playoffs 5 Notable players 5.1 Retired numbers 5.2 Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Distinguished Service Award Recipients 5.3 Buffalo Bills Wall of Fame 5.4 Pro Football Hall Of Fame 5.5 All - time first round draft picks 5.6 Recent Pro Bowl selections 6 Coaches of note 6.1 Head coaches 6.2 Current staff 7 Current roster 8 Radio and television 9 Training camp sites 10 Mascots, cheerleaders and marching band 11 Supporters 12 In popular culture 13 See also 14 References 15 External links 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 led by head coach Buster Ramsey 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 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 ). In 1947 a contest was held to rename the 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. After being pushed to the brink of failure in the mid-1980s, the collapse of the United States Football League and a series of high draft picks 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. Logos and uniforms Bills logo, 1962 -- 1973 The Bills ' uniforms in its first two seasons were based on those of the Detroit Lions at the time. 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. In 1962, the team 's colors also changed to red, white, and blue. The team switched to blue jerseys with red and white `` LSU '' stripes on the shoulders. the helmets were white with a red center stripe. 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. 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. 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 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. '' ( 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 1977 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. 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. 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. 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. Rivalries 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. They also play an annual preseason game against the Detroit Lions. Divisional rivalries Miami Dolphins Main article : Bills -- Dolphins rivalry 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. 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 Belichick / Brady - led Patriots, but Miami remains a fierce rival of the Bills, coming in second place in a recent poll of Buffalo 's primary rival, and the two teams have typically been close to each other in win - loss records. Miami leads the overall series 60 - 47 - 1 as of 2017, but Buffalo has the advantage in the playoffs at 3 - 1. New England Patriots Main article : Bills -- Patriots rivalry 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 29 - 5 against the Bills since Belichick became head coach. 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. Overall, the Patriots lead the series 72 - 43 - 1 as of 2017. 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 Main article : Bills -- Jets rivalry The Bills and Jets both represent the state of New York, though the Jets actually play their games in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The series started as the Bills and Jets were both original teams in the AFL. Though the rivalry represents the differences between New York City and Upstate New York, it is not as intense as the Bills ' rivalries with the Dolphins and Patriots, and the teams ' fanbases either have begrudging respect or low - key annoyance for each other when not playing one another. Often times the rivalry has become characterized by ugly games and shared mediocrity, but it has had a handful of competitive moments and briefly heated up when former Jets head coach Rex Ryan became head coach of the Bills for two seasons. Buffalo leads the series 61 - 54 as of 2017, including a playoff win in 1981. Other rivalries Kansas City Chiefs The Bills and 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. 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. Buffalo currently leads the series 26 - 21 - 1. Tennessee Titans See also : The Comeback ( American football ) and Music City Miracle The Tennessee Titans, formerly the Houston Oilers, were another fellow rival from the AFL, sharing extended history with the Bills as well. The Oilers were a divisional rival before the NFL - AFL merger as part of the AFL East Division. Matchups were intense in the 1990s with quarterback Warren Moon leading the Oilers against Jim Kelly 's Bills. 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, 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. The Music City Miracle was notable for being Buffalo 's last playoff appearance until 2017. The Titans currently lead the series 28 - 18. Cleveland Browns Though the two teams are in different divisions and did not start playing each other until after 1972, match - ups between the Bills and the Cleveland Browns occasionally get heated up due to the proximity and similarity between the cities of Buffalo and Cleveland. Like the Bills - Jets rivalry, the Bills and Browns often share bad luck and have had their share of ugly games, including a 6 - 3 Browns win in which the winning quarterback only completed 2 of 17 passes. However, there have been other occasions when both teams have been competitive such as in the 1980s and most recently in 2007 and 2014. The rivalry also gained heat when former Bills safety Donte Whitner was with the Browns. The Browns currently lead the series 12 - 9, including a playoff win in 1990, though the Bills have outscored the Browns in the series. 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. 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 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 2017 Wild Card Game : Jacksonville Jaguars 10, Buffalo Bills 3 Playoff record : 14 wins, 16 losses Notable players Retired numbers The Buffalo Bills have retired two 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 two jersey numbers in franchise history, the team has other numbers no longer issued to any player or in reduced circulation. Buffalo Bills retired numbers No. Player Position Tenure 12 Jim Kelly QB 1986 -- 1996 34 Thurman Thomas RB 1988 -- 1999 78 Bruce Smith DE 1985 -- 1999 Unofficially retired : 32 O.J. Simpson, RB, 1969 -- 1977 Reduced circulation : 44 Elbert Dubenion, WR, 1960 -- 1968 66 Billy Shaw, OG, 1961 -- 1969 83 Andre Reed, WR, 1985 -- 1999 ( Lee Evans III wore # 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 practice squad safety Dean Marlowe wearing the number in 2018. Number 15 was historically only issued sparingly after the retirement of Jack Kemp, but was later returned to general circulation. It is not being used as of the 2018 regular season. 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. 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, 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 Buffalo Bills Wall 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 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 -- 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 1968 26 George Saimes 1963 -- 1969 2001 12 Jim Kelly QB 1986 -- 1996 76 Fred Smerlas DT 1979 -- 1989 2002 67 Kent Hull 1986 -- 1996 2003 56 Darryl Talley LB 1983 -- 1994 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 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 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 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 All - time first round draft picks Main article : List of Buffalo Bills first - round draft picks Recent Pro Bowl selections Main article : List of Buffalo Bills Pro Bowl selections Coaches of note Head coaches Main article : List of Buffalo Bills head coaches Current staff Buffalo Bills staff Front office Owner / CEO -- Terry Pegula Owner / president -- Kim Pegula General manager -- Brandon Beane Assistant general manager -- Joe Schoen Director of player personnel -- Dan Morgan College scouting director -- Terrance Gray Senior VP of football administration -- Jim Overdorf Assistant director of college scouting -- Lake Dawson Director of pro personnel -- Malik Boyd Head coach Head coach -- Sean McDermott Offensive coaches Offensive coordinator -- Brian Daboll Quarterbacks -- David Culley Running backs -- Kelly Skipper Wide receivers -- Terry Robiskie Tight ends -- Rob Boras Offensive line / run game coordinator -- Juan Castillo Assistant offensive line -- Andrew Dees Offensive assistant -- Chad Hall Offensive assistant -- Shea Tierney Offensive assistant -- William Vlachos Offensive quality control / assistant QBs -- Marc Lubick Defensive coaches Defensive coordinator -- Leslie Frazier Defensive line -- Bill Teerlinck Assistant defensive line -- Aaron Whitecotton Linebackers -- Bob Babich Defensive backs -- John Butler Safeties -- Bobby Babich Defensive assistant -- Jim Salgado Defensive quality control -- John Egorugwu Special teams coaches Special teams -- Danny Crossman Assistant special teams -- Matt Smiley Strength and conditioning Head strength and conditioning -- Eric Ciano Assistant strength and conditioning -- Hal Luther Assistant strength and conditioning -- Jason Oszvart Assistant strength and conditioning -- Mark Loecher Assistant strength and conditioning -- Will Greenberg → Coaching staff → Management → More NFL staffs AFC East BUF MIA NE NYJ North BAL CIN CLE PIT South HOU IND JAX TEN West DEN KC LAC OAK NFC East DAL NYG PHI WAS North CHI DET GB MIN South ATL CAR NO TB West ARI LAR SF SEA Current roster Buffalo Bills roster view talk Quarterbacks 17 Josh Allen 3 Derek Anderson 2 Nathan Peterman Running backs 42 Patrick DiMarco FB 33 Chris Ivory 26 Taiwan Jones 25 LeSean McCoy 45 Marcus Murphy Wide receivers 13 Kelvin Benjamin 18 Andre Holmes 11 Zay Jones 14 Ray - Ray McCloud 87 Cam Phillips Tight ends 85 Charles Clay 80 Jason Croom 82 Logan Thomas Offensive linemen 66 Russell Bodine C 65 Ike Boettger G 73 Dion Dawkins T 62 Vladimir Ducasse G 72 Ryan Groy C 68 Conor McDermott T 76 John Miller G 79 Jordan Mills T 74 Jeremiah Sirles T 75 Wyatt Teller G Defensive linemen 55 Jerry Hughes DE 90 Shaq Lawson DE 98 Star Lotulelei DT 93 Trent Murphy DE 99 Harrison Phillips DT 97 Jordan Phillips DT 95 Kyle Williams DT 54 Eddie Yarbrough DE Linebackers 57 Lorenzo Alexander OLB 49 Tremaine Edmunds MLB 50 Ramon Humber OLB 44 Deon Lacey OLB 58 Matt Milano OLB 51 Julian Stanford MLB Defensive backs 20 Rafael Bush FS 28 Phillip Gaines CB 23 Micah Hyde SS 36 Dontae Johnson CB 24 Taron Johnson CB 38 Ryan Lewis CB 29 Siran Neal SS 30 Lafayette Pitts CB 21 Jordan Poyer FS 27 Tre'Davious White CB Special teams 9 Corey Bojorquez P 69 Reid Ferguson LS 4 Steven Hauschka K Reserve lists 7 Cory Carter P ( IR ) 22 Vontae Davis CB ( Left Squad ) Practice squad 35 Keith Ford RB 16 Robert Foster WR 56 Mike Love DE 31 Dean Marlowe FS 91 Kyle Peko DT 15 Hunter Sharp WR 52 Corey Thompson OLB 96 Robert Thomas DT 89 Keith Towbridge TE 47 Levi Wallace CB Rookies in italics Roster updated October 19, 2018 Depth chart Transactions 53 Active, 2 Inactive, 10 Practice squad → AFC rosters → NFC rosters AFC East BUF MIA NE NYJ North BAL CIN CLE PIT South HOU IND JAX TEN West DEN KC LAC OAK NFC East DAL NYG PHI WAS North CHI DET GB MIN South ATL CAR NO TB West ARI LAR SF SEA Radio and television Main article : List of Buffalo Bills broadcasters See also : Buffalo Bills Radio Network The Buffalo Bills Radio Network is 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. ) During the preseason, most games are televised on Buffalo 's ABC affiliate, WKBW - TV channel 7. In 2018, the team signed an agreement with Nexstar Media Group to carry Bills games across its network of stations in the region, 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 ). Following the expiration of its contract with WKBW in 2019, the flagship station will become WIVB - TV. CBS analyst and former Bills special teams player Steve Tasker does color commentary on these games ; the play - by - play position is rotated between his CBS partner 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 which 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 WKBW. In the event regular season games are broadcast by ESPN, in accordance with the league 's television policies, a local Buffalo station simulcasts the game. From 2014 to 2017, WKBW - TV held the broadcast rights to that contest, with the station having won back the rights to cable games after WBBZ - TV held the rights for 2012 and 2013. 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 currently do not have cheerleaders. 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, most recently by Citadel Broadcasting. The Jills suspended operations prior to the 2014 season due to legal actions. The Bills and Jills are currently involved in a legal battle, in which the Jills allege they were employees, not independent contractors, and are seeking back pay. Complicating matters is that Citadel 's buyer, Cumulus Media, declared bankruptcy and sought to discharge its remaining Bills - related debts in January 2018. 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 Redskins, 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. The Bills have also used the full marching bands from Attica High School, 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 '', recorded by Scott Kemper, which served as the Bills ' official promotional song from 1987 through 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. Supporters The Bills Backers are the official fan organization of the Buffalo Bills. It has over 200 chapters across North America, Europe and Oceania. Also notable is the Bills Mafia, a collection of Bills fans organized via Twitter beginning in 2010 ; 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 often treat the Bills ' fan base in derogatory terms, especially since the 2010s, in part because of negative press coverage of select fans ' wilder antics. Bills fans have been noted as much for their boisterous behavior as they have for their generosity ; 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 tens of thousands of dollars as a gesture of thanks. 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 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, as has CBS Evening News lead anchor and Tonawanda native Jeff Glor. 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, and did a commercial for the team in 2014. 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 has professed her fandom of the team. 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 their first brick - and - mortar storefront, it chose Western New York as its first location. 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 ; John Lang, an Elvis impersonator who carries a large guitar that he uses as a billboard ; and Ezra Castro, also known as `` Pancho Billa, '' a resident of the Dallas - Fort Worth Metroplex who wears a large sombrero and lucha mask. 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. In popular culture This article appears to contain trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject 's impact on popular culture, using references to reliable sources, rather than simply listing appearances. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( September 2018 ) 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 games over the Bills. 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. Actor Dean Cain was briefly a member of the Bills. Because of this, references to the Bills have appeared in the television series Lois & Clark : The New Adventures of Superman, in which Cain played the title character. In the first episode of season four, titled `` Lord of the Flys '', Clark picks up a blue Buffalo Bills hat with the Charging Buffalo emblem in the center and uses it to help disguise himself. In a later episode, he lets it be known the Metropolis Mammoths are playing the Bills. In an April 2011 episode of the television series 30 Rock, titled `` 100 '', 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 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 a March 2014 episode of the television series Family Guy entitled `` 3 Acts of God '', Peter Griffin -- along with his family and friends -- attends a game between the Buffalo Bills and New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, which the Bills win. The episode also features Bills players Mario Williams and C.J. Spiller guest starring as themselves. 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 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. 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 References Jump up ^ `` Buffalo Bills Team Facts ''. Pro Football Hall of Fame. Retrieved October 2, 2017. 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