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"Where else would you rather be, then right here, right now." Former Buffalo Bills head coach Marv Levy's words will forever live on as the mantra for one of the most electric and loyal fanbases in the NFL.

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In short, "Bills Mafia" refers to the Buffalo Bills fan base. But for that fan base, "Mafia" means family. And that family is among the most gracious in the NFL, constantly giving back to the community and to charitable causes championed by Bills players and even players from opposing teams.

Buffalo Bill's now famous motto, coined prior to his entrance in a show in 1883, was "True to Friend and Foe," a phrase he would occasionally write out for admirers.

Why is Buffalo's nickname the Bills? The nickname is a reference to American soldier and frontiersman "Buffalo Bill" Cody. He hunted buffalo to feed construction crews on the Union Pacific Railroad and claimed to have slaughtered 4,280 buffalo.

Created by PFR founder Doug Drinen, the Approximate Value (AV) method is an attempt to put a single number on the seasonal value of a player at any position from any year (since 1960). The way Drinen described the intent of this measurement was: "AV is not meant to be a be-all end-all metric.

The majority of our data comes from the work of Pete Palmer, Ken Pullis, and Gary Gillette.

PFR's founder, Doug Drinen, is also responsible for the creation of the "approximate value" statistic, a metric used to quantify the value of a player's season.

Settle into your couch, and let us introduce you to actor Chad Michael Murray who, being a Buffalo native, has his heart tied to the Bills in all their highs and lows. Moving across the Atlantic, we find CNN news anchor Wolf Blitzer, who discovered his love for the Buffalo Bills during his university years in Buffalo.

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The Bills, instead, are named after "Buffalo Bill" Cody, a man who literally hunted bison. But why? According to the team, the name "Buffalo Bills" was chosen during a naming contest for Buffalo's All-America Football Conference team.

Bills fans are a raucous bunch. The fan base is known for tailgating antics, traveling well for road games and throwing snowballs in late season, mostly as a means of celebration. It's easy to see why an opponent would not like snowballs flying in at them on the field.

The World's Team?: New study finds Bills are NFL's most popular franchise worldwide. A new study from betting company FlashPicks has determined that the Buffalo Bills are one of the most-searched-for NFL franchises in the world.

The Comeback or The Choke was a National Football League (NFL) game held on January 3, 1993, as part of the 1992–93 NFL playoffs. The Buffalo Bills overcame a 35–3 deficit to defeat the visiting Houston Oilers 41–38 in overtime and set the then-record for largest comeback in NFL history.

Every Buffalo Dead Is an Indian Gone' The American bison is the new U.S. national mammal, but its slaughter was once seen as a way to starve Native Americans into submission.

After only one year, owner James Breuil held a name-the-team contest in hopes of choosing a more distinctive nickname; "Bisons" had been the traditional nickname for Buffalo teams for many years. The winning choice was "Bills," which was a play on the name of the famed Wild West showman Buffalo Bill Cody.