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Bills are the only team in Super Bowl history
to have lost four games in a row. The Bills
losing streak started in 1991, Super Bowl
XXV, against the New York Giants where they
lost by a meager one point. The Margin of
defeat got worse in Super Bowl XXVII when
the Bills met the Dallas Cowboys. The Bills
were routed 52-17, a 35 point margin which
was once a Super Bowl record. Buffalo Bills
are a professional football team and one
of four teams in the Eastern Division of
the American Football Conference (AFC) which
is part of the National Football League
(NFL). The Bills play at Ralph Wilson Stadium
in Buffalo, New York, and wear uniforms
of royal blue, scarlet, and white.
The team was named by the organization's
first president, Ralph C. Wilson, Jr.,
after American scout, guide, and showman
William Frederick Cody, who was known
as Buffalo Bill for his ability to kill
a buffalo. The Bills built powerful teams
in both the now-defunct American Football
League (AFL) and the NFL. The team won
consecutive AFL titles in 1964 and 1965
with teams that starred running back Cookie
Gilchrist and quarterback Jack Kemp. During
the 1970s Bills running back O. J. Simpson
became one of the most prolific rushers
in professional football history, breaking
nearly every NFL rushing record. Buffalo
appeared in four consecutive Super Bowls
from 1991 through 1994 with teams starring
linebacker Cornelius Bennett, quarterback
Jim Kelly, defensive end Bruce Smith,
and running back Thurman Thomas. Buffalo
became a charter member of the AFL in
1960. After four mediocre seasons, the
team won the Eastern Division in 1964
under head coach Lou Saban, who was named
AFL coach of the year. Also that year,
the Bills' star kicker, Hungarian-born
Pete Gogolak, became professional football's
first soccer-style kicker, using the side
of his foot rather than his toe to propel
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