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The Buffalo Bills were an American football team, based in Buffalo, New York, that played in the All-America Football Conference from 1946 to 1949. During its first season in 1946, the team was known as the Buffalo Bisons ; during the last three years they were renamed in honor of "Buffalo Bill" Cody .
Buffalo had been left out of the league since the All-Americans (by that point renamed the Bisons) 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 Indians/Tigers of the early 1940s and an earlier team named the Bills, originally the Bisons, in the late 1940s ...
After a public contest, the team adopted the same name as the AAFC Buffalo Bills, the former All-America Football Conference team in Buffalo. The AAFC Bills franchise was named after the Buffalo Bills, a popular barbershop quartet, [7] whose name was a play on the name of the famed Wild West showman Buffalo Bill Cody. The franchises are not ...
The Buffalo Bills are named after a frontiersman who killed thousands of buffalo and was world-renowned for Wild West shows. The Buffalo Bills are named after a frontiersman who killed thousands ...
The Buffalo Bills, a National Football League team based in Buffalo, New York, were named after the entertainer. Other early football teams (such as the Buffalo Bills of the All-America Football Conference) used the nickname, solely for name recognition, as Cody had no special connection with the city of Buffalo. He did however live for a few ...
NFL fans can feel it in their bones: this is the Buffalo Bills’ best chance of a Super Bowl winner in over 30 years. Fresh off beating the high-flying Detroit Lions in Michigan, the Bills should ...
Buffalo's intercollegiate sports program returned in 1915. [12] Buffalo's sports teams were known as the "Buffalo Bison" until the 1930s, at which point they changed their name to the Bulls to avoid confusion with several professional sports teams of the same name. [13] However, in 1960, the Buffalo Bills began play in the American Football ...
Bison, also known as buffalo, walk in a herd inside a corral at Badlands National Park, on Oct. 13, 2022, near Wall, S.D. The wild animals were corralled for transfer to Native American tribes ...