When the Kansas City Chiefs visit Highmark Stadium Sunday for their Week 9 clash with the Buffalo Bills, it will mark the 10th meeting between Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen, playoffs included.
In the nine-game series between the two rivals, Mahomes and the Chiefs hold a 5-4 record against Allen and the Bills, including a perfect 4-0 mark in the postseason, a streak that’s given Buffalo fans all the reason to bristle at Kansas City.
“They don’t like us — they do not like the Chiefs,” Mahomes said Wednesday. “It is a cool environment. I love playing in historic stadiums and that stadium has had so many great players play in it.
“Who knows? It might be the last time that we get the opportunity to play there. It will be a great challenge for us and they’re loud and that’s what you want — you want to go in and be in a hostile environment. That’s what football — when you watch on TV as a kid, growing up, that is the environment you want to play in.”
Nicknamed “Bills Mafia,” Buffalo fans are well known for their raucous tailgates that include deep-frying chicken wings in the parking lot, such rituals as diving through folding tables … and a superfan named “Pinto Ron,” who commemorates each Bills home game by being doused with ketchup and mustard.
“The fans there are very, very in tune — they’re very similar to Kansas City fans,” Chiefs defensive lineman Chris Jones said. “It’s no place like Arrowhead, but very similar in the aspect of how tuned-in they are with the football team: cracking tables, jumping on tables, doing the Rock People’s Champ elbow on tables.
“Just the excitement they have for the Buffalo Bills — we know it’s a hostile environment, we know it’s us against everybody, and for me, that’s a motivational factor I carry with me.”
Their energy translates to the stadium, where the fans greet rivals like the Chiefs with open animosity.
“I think it’s cool, honestly,” Mahomes said. “When you’re on the road, you just have your teammates. You have your teammates and your coaches and you kind of have to bond together and there’s going to be adversity and it’s how you can bond together and come out on the other side of that and come out on the right way with a win.”
Before the Chiefs’ Divisional Round win in January 2024, Jones embraced that hostility by jawing with fans during warmups. After Kansas City’s 27-24 win, Bills supporters showered Kansas City’s players with snowballs, many of them frozen solid. On Thursday, Jones said he plans to grab some chicken wings at Bar-Bill Tavern before focusing in on the task at hand. “I think it’s fun but a respectful aspect,” he said. “We don’t like any team that comes here. We sure don’t like their fans, but we respect their fans to a certain extent — it’s all competitive love and war.
“When a team comes here, it’s not like we’re not cheering for a team that comes here — whether it’s the Raiders, Washington, or better yet, Buffalo, a team that’s beaten us a couple times, so we don’t like them either — but it’s a respect level that we also have with it because of the game.”
The last time the Bills saw the Chiefs at Highmark Stadium, they handed Kansas City its first loss of the 2024 season only to fall to them later in the AFC title game at Arrowhead.
You can bet their fans remember.
This story was originally published October 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM.
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