Bills Mafia Is Enjoying A Well Earned Moment In the Sun
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Everyone in Bills Mafia has known for years how special the 2024 Buffalo Bills are, but many fans across the league are surveying the playoff scenery and throwing in their allegiances with Josh Allen and Company. They’re arguably the most likable team left standing in the NFL, and inarguably the most likable team in the AFC.
Why’s that?
Part of it is that their matchup against the Chiefs has major David vs Goliath, Appalachian State vs. Michigan, the 1980 Miracle on Ice, and Rudy vibes. Everyone loves a good underdog story, and that’s just what this Bills team offers. We aren’t talking about in a betting sense (they’re only 1.5-point underdogs on the road in the AFC Championship Game against the Chiefs), but in terms of what this Bills team has gone through in its history.
Buffalo ends up on a lot of those Cursed Franchise listicles, something that’s bound to happen when a team has lost four-straight Super Bowls in heartbreaking fashion. Fans love seeing curses get broken — there was even a time when people were rooting for the Kansas City Chiefs to win their first Super Bowl since 1970.
Oh, how times have changed. Everyone’s sick of the Chiefs, and they’re so omnipresent that they had an actual Hallmark Christmas Movie made about them. Everyone wants this madness to stop, and if the Bills can break a curse in the process, that’s awesome, too.
It’s that much easier to hop on the Bills Mafia train when they’ve got a fun group of players to pull for, Starting with the face of the franchise. Allen plays an enjoyable brand of football, and even though he is often considered a solid, underrated trash-talker, he never seems to take it too far. That hair doesn’t hurt, either. That’s some solid flow.
Off the field, he does a whole lot of charity work, and often time before games he will spend a couple of extra seconds with some kids that he encounters, just trying to make them feel special. He is also just like the rest of us: he likes to sleep. Back in high school, he liked it so much that he had his own wakeup buddy to make sure that he could get to school in time to watch film with the coaches. It’s the most relatable a football player has ever been.
It goes deeper than Allen, though. Mack Hollins is a Grade-A character, and Keon Coleman, Ed Oliver, A.J. Epenesa, and Rasul Douglas are a vibe, as well. And after all Damar Hamlin has been through, who could possibly root against him getting a Super Bowl ring?
And of course, there’s Bills Mafia themselves. Imagine picking between having to root for Eagles fans, who wouldn’t think twice about throwing batteries at you, or Bills fans, who’ll offer you a chance to jump through a table with them.
The football world got to see what Bills Mafia was made of this past week. After Mark Andrews dropped a two-point conversion that cost the Baltimore Ravens a chance at tying the game, some deranged members of his fanbase sent him death threats. Bills fans sent donations to Andrews’ charity supporting people dealing with Type 1 diabetes.
This isn’t the first time that Bills Mafia has been generous with their money. In January of 2021, after the Bills beat the Ravens to advance to the AFC Championship Game, they raised over $480,000 for one of Lamar Jackson’s favorite charities.
Bills fans who live in Buffalo have to deal with an average of nine feet of snow per year, and on top of that, they’ve had to deal with the disappointment the Bills have been year after year. But they still keep their hope and friendly spirit alive.
Among the teams still remaining, the only other team that can lay claim to likability is the Washington Commanders, and that’s only because Dan Snyder was run out of town, and Jayden Daniels has an Allen-esque personality. But hey, three Super Bowl titles to zero, let’s end the long-suffering-est fans’ suffering first.
The Bills still have to get the job done on the field, but there is no doubt about it: they have earned the right to be America’s team this weekend, and if they can knock off the Chiefs en route to the Super Bowl, everyone else wins!
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