Buffalo Bills
American Football League National Football League The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area. The Bills began play as an original franchise of the American Football League in 1960. The club joined the NFL as a result of the AFL–NFL merger for the 1970 season. The team has yet to win a league championship since the 1970s, but has won four consecutive AFC Championships. Since 1999, they have clinched their first 10-win season in two decades in December 2019.
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American Football League National Football League The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area. The team plays its home games at Bills Stadium in Orchard Park, New York. The Bills began play as an original franchise of the American Football League 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. They are the only team to win four consecutive conference championships and the only NFL team to lose four consecutive Super Bowl games. 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 allowed the Bills to rebuild into a perennial contender in the late 1980s. 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. 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. After his death in 2014, Wilson’s estate reached an agreement to sell the team to Pegula, which was approved by the other NFL team owners on October 7, 2014.
In 1962, the red bison logo took its place on a white helmet and the team’s colors also changed to white, blue, and blue. In the same year, the team switched to red, white and blue, which displayed the players’ numbers on each side’ on each helmet. The original colors were blue, silver and white, with no striping. There was no logo on the helmet, which showed the player’s numbers on the side’ which displayed each player’s number. The winning entry suggested that the team was reflecting on the famous western frontiersman, Buffalo Bill Cody. In 1947 a contest was held to rename the AAFC Bisons, whichwas owned by James Breuil of the Frontier Oil Company. When Buffalo joined the new American Football Football League, the Bills’ name was adopted in its first two seasons based on those of the Detroit Lions at the time. The Buffalo All-Americans, a charter member of the league, 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 IndiansTigers of the early 1940s and an earlier team named the Bills, originally the Bisons in theLate 1940s in the All-America Football Conference. The first team to play in the NFL in 1960 was the Buffalo Bills, who were founded by Ralph Wilson, who died in 2014 at the age of 95. The team has yet to win a league championship since the 1970s, but has won four consecutive AFC Championships. Since 1999, they have clinched their first 10-win season in two decades in December 2019.
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