Buffalo Bills Milestones

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How the Buffalo Bills history timeline works

Each card in the Bills deck is a franchise moment with a brief description, and you order them by the year it happened. A first card is placed with its year showing. You read each new one and slot it into a gap. Correct placements reveal the year, while wrong ones cost one of three lives and send the card to its true position.

Buffalo's history is one of heartbreak and resilience, and the deck has plenty of both: famous playoff losses, a remarkable run of title-game appearances, and long droughts in between. The near misses are the hardest cards, because one painful defeat reads a lot like another. The descriptions mention opponents and quarterbacks, which help. The team's championships come from its original league, before the merger.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 30 cards you might be dealt, with 2 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Ralph Wilson founded the Bills A Detroit insurance man took a charter AFL franchise to western New York
Played their first AFL season Buster Ramsey's club debuted at War Memorial Stadium, 'The Rockpile'
Won their first AFL Championship Mike Stratton's 'hit heard round the world' turned the title game against San Diego
Repeated as AFL champions Shut out the Chargers on the road for back-to-back crowns
Lost the AFL title game before Super Bowl I Kansas City won at War Memorial and went on to face the Packers
Drafted O.J. Simpson first overall The Heisman-winning USC tailback came east
Joined the NFL in the AFL merger One of ten AFL clubs folded into the older league
O.J. Simpson rushed for 2,003 yards The first 2,000-yard season ever, done in 14 games during Rich Stadium's first year
Snapped the 20-game skid against Miami and won the East Fans tore down the goalposts after the week-one win over the Dolphins
Won their first NFL-era playoff game Edged the Jets 31-27 in a wild-card game at Shea
Drafted Jim Kelly Took the Miami QB 14th, but he signed with the USFL's Houston Gamblers instead
Drafted Bruce Smith first overall The Virginia Tech pass rusher went at the top of the draft
Jim Kelly finally signed with Buffalo The USFL's collapse sent the franchise quarterback to town at last
Went 12-4 and won the AFC East The young core of Kelly, Reed, Bruce Smith, and rookie Thurman Thomas broke through
Lost Super Bowl XXVI Washington won it; Thurman Thomas famously misplaced his helmet
Won 'The Comeback' playoff game Backup Frank Reich erased a 35-3 hole against the Oilers
Lost a record fourth straight Super Bowl Dallas won the rematch in Atlanta
Jim Kelly retired He hung it up after eleven seasons and four AFC titles
Doug Flutie's magic season The CFL legend took over the huddle and made the Pro Bowl
Lost on the Music City Miracle Wycheck's lateral to Dyson ended their season in Nashville
Traded for Drew Bledsoe New England sent its former franchise QB inside the division for a first-rounder
The Pegulas bought the Bills Terry and Kim kept the team in Buffalo after Ralph Wilson's death
Snapped the 17-season playoff drought Andy Dalton's fourth-down touchdown pass knocked out Baltimore and let them in
Drafted Josh Allen Traded up to take the big-armed Wyoming quarterback seventh
Won their first AFC East title in 25 years Went 13-3 behind Allen's breakout and hosted playoff football again
Lost the '13 Seconds' playoff game Kansas City forced overtime after a frantic finish in the divisional round
Damar Hamlin collapsed and recovered His cardiac arrest on a Monday night in Cincinnati stopped the game; he returned to play that fall
Traded Stefon Diggs to Houston Buffalo dealt its top receiver to the Texans in April