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The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in Orchard Park, New York. They are members of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League. The Bills are the only team to win four consecutive conference championships, and are the only NFL team to play in four consecutive Super Bowl games, all of which they lost. They have only had one owner, Ralph Wilson, in their fifty-three years of existence. They have featured many of the league's most prominent and popular players, including Jack Kemp, Cookie Gilchrist, Bob Kalsu, O.J. Simpson, Bruce Smith, Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas, and Andre Reed.
Since 1972, the Bills have played home games at Ralph Wilson Stadium in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park. The Bills are the only NFL team that play their home games in New York state. Since the 2008 NFL season the Bills have played one regular season home game per season in Toronto as part of the Bills Toronto Series. The Bills conduct summer training camp at St. John Fisher College in Pittsford, New York, an eastern suburb of Rochester. In January 2013, Doug Marrone became the head coach of the Bills. The Bills have the longest playoff drought in the NFL: they have not made the playoffs since 1999. They have the longest active streak of losing seasons: they have not finished .500 or better since 2004.
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