Buffalo Bills

The Buffalo Bills are an American football team playing in the AFC East division of the National Football League. One of their home games is played at the Roger’s Centre in Toronto, but the rest of the season’s home games are played at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, which is a suburb of Buffalo. The stadium is sometimes referred to as Rich Stadium or Bills Stadium. The Bills began playing in 1960 as an American Football League charter member. The joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL merger in 1970. The Bills won 2 AFL titles in 1964 and 1965 but have not won a league championship since the merger. They are the only team to win four consecutive AFC Championships (1990 – 1993), only to lose all four Super Bowls.

Although there are 2 NFL teams billed as New York teams (New York Jets and New York Giants) the Buffalo Bills are the only team to play their home games within New York State. The other New York teams actually play in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Bills are also the only team to play any home games in Canada. They won 3 consecutive AFL East championships in 1964 thru 1966, and 7 AFC East championships in 1980, 1988 – 1991, 1993 and 1995. They made 17 playoff appearances: 4 consecutive AFL in 1963 – 1966, and 13 NFL in 1974, 1980, 1981, 1988 – 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998 and 1999. In the last seven Pro Bowl games the Buffalo Bills have had at least one player and once as many as 4 players selected to play.

The founder, owner and president of the Buffalo Bills team is Ralph Wilson, Jr. At 90, he is the oldest owner of an NFL team. The Bills head coach is Dick Jauron who started his professional coaching career in 1985 as the Bills defensive assistant coach. Now, 21 years later he is the 14th head coach for the Bills, a position he has held since January 23, 2006. Jauron is looking to lead his team including Trent Edwards, Lee Evans, Marshawn Lynch, Terrence McGee, Leodis McKelvin and Paul Posluszny to a winning season.