Bills bringing back red helmets

Josh Allen will have red head gear at the final home game in Highmark Stadium.
Red helmets will adorn the Buffalo Bills for their final Highmark Stadium regular season game, a look familiar from their SUNY Fredonia days.
The Bills announced Tuesday afternoon they will wear the classic style for the season finale against the New York Jets. The team wore red helmets from 1987-2001. The Bills held summer training camp at SUNY Fredonia from 1984 to 1999.
The Bills are moving into a new stadium for the 2026 season. “The Bills provided this region with some of the most incredible moments in franchise history in the 1990s wearing these helmets, and we feel this is a great way to commemorate the closing of Highmark Stadium in our regular season finale,” said Bills Chief Operating Officer Pete Guelli.
The “incredible moments” include four straight Super Bowl appearances in the early 1990s. Fredonia old-timers probably remember “incredible moments” of different sorts from those Bills teams’ summertime appearance on the village bar scene.
The Bills also announced Tuesday they will bring back their “Standing Buffalo” throwback uniforms twice this season, for a Week 6 Monday Night Football game in Atlanta and a Week 11 home contest against Tampa Bay.