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Getty Buffalo Bills fans celebrate a touchdown in a game against the Carolina Panthers.
Buffalo Bills fans didn’t get to see their team at the Super Bowl, but they did get a chance to see their tailgate tradition get a nod in one of the commercials.
Many Bills fans took to Twitter to react to an apparent shoutout from an Avocados from Mexico commercial that showed some fans misbehaving and acting very similar to Bills fans. The reference didn’t sit well with many of those fans.
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Bills Mafia receives recognition
The apparent reference to the Bills parking lot tradition came early in the first half, in an Avocados from Mexico commercial that was set in ancient Rome. In the commercial, Romans were seen in the parking lot of the Colosseum waiting to watch a gladiator competition when a group of rowdy rival fanatics, the Barbarians, invaded and began performing noisily.
“Barbarians,” said one of the Romans. I hate when they come to town.
In a montage of their misbehavior, the barbarians were seen jumping to crash into a modern-looking white folding table. Many Bills fans have embraced that tradition at tailgates before games, climbing on top of cars or hills and jumping through white folding tables to break them.
To many Bills fans, the reference in the Avocados from Mexico commercial seemed very intentional.
“Was that a Bills dig at the damn avocado commercial?” one fan tweeted.
The avocados were betting on a Bills Super Bowl.
— Brian Mazurowski (@BMaz1) February 14, 2022
And some fans were a little offended by the fact that Bills fans were referred to as barbarians.
“Did Avocados from Mexico throw shade at the ‘barbaric’ Bills fans?!? I see you avocado man,” tweeted another.
Optimism for the coming year
Although many Bills fans were unhappy with the Super Bowl reference, and the fact that the team failed to make it to the big game after suffering a heartbreaking divisional round loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, there were a few reasons for the optimism that next year’s experience will be better. Quarterback Josh Allen has been in the spotlight a lot in the days leading up to the Super Bowl, and he’s done a lot to ease the pain that many fans still feel. Allen said he had a vivid dream about what it would mean to Bills fans and how they would react.
“It’s good,” Allen told the Buffalo News of his dream. “A lot of Labatts are flowing. Yeah, just… when it happens, I’m sure it will be better than what I’m dreaming of.”
Allen also thanked Bills fans in an appearance on The Jim Rome Show on CBS Radio, saying he realizes how much it would mean to the entire city of Buffalo if the team won a Super Bowl.
“But given the history of the Bills Mafia and the history of the Buffalo Bills, the things that that city has had to endure, the 17-year drought, we know about the things before that, I won’t even mention it,” Allen said. referring to his personal aspirations to win it all. “But to give them that Super Bowl, I have vivid dreams of the parade and what it would be like. So, it’s something I want to see happen so badly that I won’t stop until we do. So we’re working on that.”
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