Bills fans set table on fire in wild tailgate scene (2024)
Buffalo Bills fans threw one of their own onto a flaming table on Sunday.
Jumping onto and breaking folding tables is one of the Bills fan base’s most heralded tailgating traditions, and fans were determined to bring that custom on the road for a Week 2 matchup in Miami — but with a hot twist.
Video posted Sunday shows a group of fans setting a folding table on fire, then throwing a seemingly willing fellow fan into the flame.
The fan hit the table with a thud, but didn’t have the momentum to break it. He quickly escaped to a safe distance, while the table was left bent downwards, but not fully broken, and the fire continued to burn.
This was not the first instance of Bills fans using fire for their table-breaking tradition.
In January when Buffalo hosted the Tennessee Titans in the wild-card round for the organization’s first home playoff game since 1996, a video posted on Twitter showed fans unleashing 25 years of playoff excitement with a similar flaming table stunt.
The fan that was thrown onto that table did successfully break it, but also paid the price as his clothes were inflamed and he frantically tried to smother it on the snow-covered ground before suffering serious burns.
Now, the flaming table tradition doesn’t even seem to be reserved for historic playoff games, as fans are now using it for a mere regular season road game against the Dolphins.
As for why they jump on tables, it's a tradition that started in the parking lots of Orchard Park, where Bills fans tailgate before games. The identity of the first Bills fan to jump through a table is unknown, but it has since become a tailgate tradition.
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The answer is most likey the same one as many other questions when something odd happens: the internet is to blame. There's no known definitive start to the table-smashing trend but other internet sleuths point to a drunk Bills fan going viral by falling face-first into a bus in 2015.
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The Bills' website (buffalobills.com) has a section devoted to tailgating dos and don'ts, under the header "Parking." Tailgating is permitted on stadium property in most lots, and anyone tailgating on the property must have a Bills ticket for that day's game; these lots open four hours before and shut down two hours ...
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