At the start of the 1980 NFL season, most people thought the Buffalo Bills would finish as they had for the previous four seasons: with a sub-.500 record and no playoffs. With a 51-91-2 record for the entirety of the 1970s, the Bills held the dubious distinction of having the worst record in the (at the time) newly-minted AFC of the post-merger National Football League. That ranking excludes the Seattle Seahawks, who for you youngins out there, were an AFC team upon their entry to the league in 1976 until the NFL realigned in 2002 to its present divisional setup.
The 1980 Buffalo Bills: An underdog story
