Buffalo Bills
The chat's most-mentioned NFL franchise. **450 corpus mentions** spanning **2020-09-02 → 2026-05-01**, with **194 attributed to [[Matt]]** alone — the chat's longest-running fan affiliation.
Buffalo Bills
The chat's most-mentioned NFL franchise. 450 corpus mentions spanning 2020-09-02 → 2026-05-01, with 194 attributed to Matt alone — the chat's longest-running fan affiliation.
The Buffalo Bills are, in Newfound Glory Hole terms, Matt's team. The Bills appear in 450 corpus messages across all six chat years and all six members for whom the topic has come up. Matt's 194 contributions are alone more than the Vikings' total mention count and demonstrate the chat's longstanding pattern of letting Matt set the agenda whenever a Bills game is in progress.
Per-member share
Of the 450 mentions:
- Matt: 194 (43%)
- Evan Bbbender: 153 (34%)
- Kyle Derrick: 69
- Cullen Conway: 29
- Daniel Miller: 3
- Brian Ambuel: 2
Matt is the team's principal advocate, Josh Allen the team's principal recurring person (see Josh Allen), and Evan the team's principal antagonist.
First mention
The earliest Bills mention is by Matt on 2020-09-02, in the form of a Redbubble link to an Allen-Diggs 2020 Buffalo Bills face mask:
"https://www.redbubble.com/i/mask/Allen-Diggs-2020-Buffalo-Bills-by-SammyStore1/47766466.9G0D8" — Matt, 2020-09-02
Within a week Matt has filed the chat's first opinion on Bills officiating ("Should have been the bills in that game they were robbed", 2020-09-10) and the chat's first declarative Bills boast ("The bills are just that dominant", 2020-09-13).
Cullen's brief 2020 conversion
The chat's only documented mid-season fan-conversion is by Cullen Conway on 2020-09-14:
"I'm a Bills fan this year" — Cullen Conway, 2020-09-14
The conversion did not stick. Cullen's primary affiliation reverts to the Green Bay Packers within weeks (see Green Bay Packers) and remains there for the rest of the corpus. The 2020 declaration is the chat's only documented case of a member declaring a primary fan affiliation that lasted less than a single season.
Bills and Dame's birth
The chat's most-cited Bills line is by Matt on 2020-12-30, in the run-up to Dame's birth:
"It would really be ideal if this child could come before the playoffs start so I don't have to worry about watching the bills while Jen is in labor" — Matt, 2020-12-30
This is the corpus's most-quoted instance of NFL allegiance and family obligation being explicitly placed in tension, and is the encyclopedia's preferred summary of the Bills' role in Matt's life. (See Jen and Dame for the family-side history.)
2026 — the Josh Allen-stealing thread
The Bills' most active 2026 chat thread is the 2026-02-28 rumor concerning the team and Evan Bbbender's preferred quarterback:
"I just wanted to taunt Bender with the Bills stealing his man I'm a Seahawks fan anyway" — Matt, 2026-02-28
The line is the corpus's only documented instance of Matt disclosing a secondary NFL affiliation (Seahawks). Evan Bbbender received the taunt without recorded objection, suggesting the chat treats Matt's Bills/Seahawks dual loyalty as resolved.
"Bills mafia favorite"
A late-period sub-form is bills mafia as a free-floating descriptor:
"Apparently it's a bills mafia favorite" — Evan Bbbender, 2026-03-17
The form is recorded only once but indicates that the chat understands the Bills' fan-culture appendix without requiring exegesis.
Currency confusion
The bare word bills in the corpus is also used in the currency sense, sometimes within the same thread as the team. The clearest example is from 2026-04-29:
"Should we go to casa to get some $2 bills?" — Daniel Miller, 2026-04-29 "You need $3 bills" — Evan Bbbender, 2026-04-29
— and on 2026-05-01 Daniel reports "I have a two 20 bills which is good for 10 burgers and and 10 beers". These are the corpus's only documented dollar-bills usages and are filed here for the historical record.