The AFL champions
Lou Saban's Bills won consecutive AFL championships and established Buffalo as one of the young league's strongest organizations.
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NFL team archive
Buffalo Bills
Indexed from 1960 through 2025 · AFC East
1,061
Games
66
Seasons
1960
First season
2025
Latest season
The full franchise story
Every era of the Buffalo Bills.
Buffalo's story spans AFL championships, O.J. Simpson's rushing brilliance, the unprecedented four straight Super Bowls and Josh Allen's revival of a football-mad region.
Historical reference: Buffalo Bills official NFL team page ↗The Electric Company and Ground Chuck
An elite line powered Simpson's 2,003-yard season before Chuck Knox later returned Buffalo to the playoffs with a tougher, balanced roster.
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The K-Gun years
Kelly's no-huddle offense and a defense led by Smith reached four straight Super Bowls, an achievement defined equally by dominance and heartbreak.
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The seventeen-year drought
Buffalo cycled through coaches and quarterbacks while devoted fans waited through the league's longest active playoff drought.
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The Josh Allen revival
Sean McDermott restored the playoffs, Allen developed into an elite quarterback and Buffalo became a permanent part of the AFC championship conversation.
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Franchise leaders
Most indexed appearances
Andre ReedWR · 242 gamesBruce SmithDE · 237 gamesJim RitcherG · 222 gamesDarryl TalleyLB · 204 gamesJoe DevlinT-G · 197 gamesMark PikeDE-LB · 193 gamesThurman ThomasRB · 193 gamesBrian MoormanP · 190 gamesKent HullC · 189 gamesSteve FreemanDB · 181 gamesKyle WilliamsDT · 180 gamesSteve TaskerWR · 179 games
Season history
Every indexed season
66 seasons · newest first
Game archive
Latest indexed games
1,061 total · loaded 10 at a time