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Bills Bringing Back Fan-Favorite Helmets for Special Home Game This Season

Andy Nesbitt

Josh Allen and the Bills will be wearing some cool helmets in Week 18.
Josh Allen and the Bills will be wearing some cool helmets in Week 18. / Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Democrat and Chronicle / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
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The Buffalo Bills will be playing their final season in Highmark Stadium this season, as their new home right next door to it will open in 2026. And they've found a pretty awesome way to celebrate the move when they host the Jets in what will be their last home game of the regular season.

The team announced on Tuesday that in Week 18 the Bills will wear the old red helmets that were worn by the franchise from 1987 to 2001, a stretch that included four straight trips to the Super Bowl by some legendary teams led by Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly.

"There's no better way to celebrate our fans and honor our team's history by bringing back the red helmets," said Bills Chief Operating Officer Pete Guelli. "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,"

The team shared this video with the news:

Here's another look at them:

That's going to be a fun game in Buffalo.

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ANDY NESBITT

Andy Nesbitt is the assistant managing editor of audience engagement at Sports Illustrated. He works closely with the Breaking and Trending News team to shape SI’s daily coverage across all sports. A 20-year veteran of the sports media business, he has worked for Fox Sports, For the Win, The Boston Globe and NBC Sports, having joined SI in February 2023. Nesbitt is a golf fanatic who desperately wants to see the Super Bowl played on a Saturday night.

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