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Three Bills coaches—Saban, Levy and Chuck Knox—have been named coach of the year by at least one major news organization. [3] Levy and Jim Ringo are the only Bills coaches to have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. There have been six "interim" head coaches in Bills history.
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As of 2016, 13 inductees have played for, coached, or contributed to the Buffalo Bills. [2] According to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, 10 of these men made the major part of their primary contribution to the Buffalo Bills. [3] James Lofton spent a minor portion of his career with the Bills, and two others were assistant coaches.
Prior to the 2015 season, the team hired former Jets' head coach Rex Ryan to become the next head coach of the Bills. [50] The team went 8–8 in 2015 and 7–9 in 2016. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] Ryan was dismissed with one game remaining in the 2016 season, with Anthony Lynn finishing the season as interim.
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After a public contest, the team adopted the same name as the AAFC Buffalo Bills, the former All-America Football Conference team in Buffalo. The AAFC Bills franchise was named after the Buffalo Bills, a popular barbershop quartet, [7] whose name was a play on the name of the famed Wild West showman Buffalo Bill Cody. The franchises are not ...
Marvin Daniel Levy (/ ˈ l iː v iː /; born August 3, 1925) [1] is an American former football coach and executive who was a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for seventeen seasons. He spent most of his head coaching career with the Buffalo Bills , leading them from 1986 to 1997.
In January 1962, Saban was named the coach of the Buffalo Bills, another AFL team, signing a one-year contract worth $20,000 ($201,000 in 2023 dollars). [47] The Bills had a 7–6–1 record in Saban's first season and came in third in the AFL's eastern division behind the Houston Oilers and the Patriots. [ 48 ]