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Chapters: History of the Buffalo Bills. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 71. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This article details the history of the Buffalo Bills American Football Club. The team began play in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL) and won two consecutive AFL titles in 1964 and 1965. The club joined the National Football League (NFL) as part of the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger. The Bills have the distinction of being the only team to advance to four consecutive Super Bowls, but also has the dubious distinction of losing all four of them. The Bills were not the first professional football team to play in Buffalo, nor was it the first NFL team in the region. In 1918, a franchise known as the "Buffalo Niagaras" was founded; it played under various names (most notably the Buffalo All-Americans from 1920 to 1923) from 1918 to 1929 before folding; that team joined what would become the NFL in 1920 and finished in a tie atop the league standings in 1921. After Buffalo hosted two NFL games in 1938, the third American Football League installed the Buffalo Indians in the city; the Indians played two years before the league suspended and ultimately folded due to World War II. After the war, when the All-America Football Conference formed, Buffalo was again selected for a team; originally known as the Buffalo Bisons, the same name as a baseball team and (at the time) a hockey team in the area, the team sought a new identity and named itself the "Buffalo Bills" in 1947. When the AAFC merged with the NFL in 1950, the AAFC Bills were merged into the Cleveland Browns. Though there was no connection between the AAFC team and the current team, the Bills name proved popular enough that it was used as the namesake for the future American Football League team that woul...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9976342