Buffalo Rumblings
The NFL has updated its uniform policy for 2025, with news shared during the annual league meetings that teams would be able to wear throwback or alternate jerseys up to four games over the course of the regular season. That gave the Buffalo Bills one additional opportunity in 2025 to wear a uniform other than their standard/current threads.
That means the Bills will wear their current throwback uniforms for the first time since 2021, when they donned the all-white combo for a home game against the Miami Dolphins on Halloween. Buffalo will again wear that all-white road vintage combo. There is a blue version of this era of throwbacks, but no word has been shared yet to state the Bills will wear them in 2025.
Before revealing that they’d don brand-new throwback uniforms to honor the Super Bowl teams of the 1990s, we knew the Buffalo was set to wear a new alternate jersey as part of the NFL/Nike Rivals endeavor. What we didn’t know is if there was also room for the Bills to wear their color-rush combination uniform, or if perhaps their AFL throwback uniform would make a return for the first time since 2021.
The Bills have a truly classic NFL uniform, one whose roots were nourished by the practice threads of the Detroit Lions’ mid-century spares. Though you’d be hard-pressed to find much that specifically calls back to the team’s uniform worn during the first few seasons (1960-1961, 1962 with new helmet), those initial colors helped pave the way for what became Buffalo’s unmistakable red, white, and blue presentation.
With the NFL’s updated uniform policy, that opened the door Buffalo to bring back the “standing” throwbacks this season, which are some of the nicest-looking threads in professional football. Let’s take a chronological stroll back through Buffalo Bills uniform memory lane. Buckle up, it’s a heck of a journey!
Dependent on age, your uniform preference may be vastly different than the rest of your family or even the person sitting next to you on game day. Once Buffalo established its look in full beginning with the 1962 season, it remained largely unchanged until 1974.
It was at that point the team changed its primary logo from a standing bison to the charging icon we know so well today.
Of course, the Bills weren’t done tweaking their uniform, adopting a more significant portion of red in 1984 thanks to a simple change in helmet colors. As the story goes, that was due to quarterback Joe Ferguson’s difficulty differentiating between the rest of the AFC East’s white helmets. Those who recall that era remember many instances of Ferguson throwing plenty of interceptions.
Buffalo went on to wear the classic royal blue with red helmets as their home uniform for the next 18 seasons, through the 2001 campaign. There were a couple of interesting touches that didn’t last — namely the blue faceguard and a white standing bison on the red helmet worn briefly (just two games) in 1994. All...
