Tue, October 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM UTC
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PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at “Just One Before I Die,” a five-part docuseries that chronicles the hardcore Bills Mafia fanbase
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Josh Allen and Buffalo icons reflect on the team’s long pursuit of a Super Bowl title
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Directors spent nearly three years documenting the fans’ traditions, loyalty and heartbreak
Buffalo Bills fans have more than just game nights to look forward to this month!
PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at Tubi’s new original docuseries Just One Before I Die, which spotlights the team’s loyal fanbase, a.k.a. Bills Mafia, in a five-episode installment premiering Wednesday, Oct. 21.
Regarded as one of the most passionate fanbases in the NFL, Bills Mafia has tackled tables and braved the brutal cold while hoping to witness the 67-year-old franchise capture its first Super Bowl title.
Directed by Addison Henderson and Kevin Polowy, the upcoming docuseries features interviews with famous Bills fans and franchise icons, including Chad Michael Murray, Dion Dawkins, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Jim Kelly and more.
“The world has embraced Bills Mafia,” says Murray, a die-hard Buffalo fan, in the teaser shared exclusively with PEOPLE ahead of the series’ release. “Yeah, they’re like happy crazy,” added Bills offensive tackle Dawkins.
Full of heart and humor, the series spotlights the fans’ iconic tailgates and table-slamming traditions, as well as their unwavering loyalty to the Josh Allen-led team.
“We’ve spent nearly three years embedded with these ‘joyfully crazy’ fans, and it’s been a true honor to take on the responsibility of depicting to the world why Bills Mafia is the best fanbase in sports,” directors Henderson and Polowy said in a statement.
“As City of Buffalo natives and die-hard Bills fans ourselves, now all we need is a Super Bowl win to die happy,” they added.
Although Super Bowl 2027 is still several months away, the Bills are off to a hot 3-1 start.
Currently atop the AFC East, Buffalo lost for the first time this season on Sunday, Oct. 4 with a 29-26 defeat to the New England Patriots.
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“It stinks. … These ones sting; the division ones sting,” Allen, 30, said in a postgame press conference. “Feels like it’s a two-game swing, and got to find a way to learn from this and move it to the back of our brain and learn from it and move on.”
Allen, who was selected seventh overall by the Bills in the 2018 NFL Draft, opened up about his mindset ahead of the season and his determination to hoist the Lombardi Trophy.
“We’ve put it in the past. We’ve learned from it,” Allen said on the This Is Football podcast shared in August. “And we’ve been in the playoffs a lot of times in the last however many years I’ve been here now — just continuing to find ways to learn from it.”
“And I think it’s a hard pill to swallow sometimes because we haven’t gotten it done,” he said. “But you knock enough at the door, it’s going to open at some point. And that’s just what we have to keep doing is keep knocking on that door and giving ourselves chances to be in that situation again.”
Read the original article on People
