Preseason
Week 1	at New York Giants	Time and date TBD
Week 2	at Chicago Bears	Time and date TBD
Week 3	at Tampa Bay Buccaneers	Time and date TBD
Regular Season
Week 1	vs. Baltimore Ravens	Sunday, Sept. 7, 8:20 p.m., NBC
Week 2	at New York Jets	Sunday, Sept. 14, 1 p.m., CBS
Week 3	vs. Miami Dolphins	Thursday, Sept. 18, 8:15 p.m., Amazon Prime Video
Week 4	vs. New Orleans Saints	Sunday, Sept. 28, 1 p.m., CBS
Week 5	vs. New England Patriots	Sunday, Oct. 5, 8:20 p.m., NBC
Week 6	at Atlanta Falcons	Monday, Oct. 13, 7:15 p.m., ESPN
Week 7	Bye	–
Week 8	at Carolina Panthers	Sunday, Oct. 26, 1 p.m., FOX
Week 9	vs. Kansas City Chiefs	Sunday, Nov. 2, 4:25 p.m., CBS
Week 10	at Miami Dolphins	Sunday, Nov. 9, 1 p.m., CBS
Week 11	vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers	Sunday, Nov. 16, 1 p.m., CBS
Week 12	at Houston Texans	Thursday, Nov. 20, 8:15 p.m., Amazon Prime Video
Week 13	at Pittsburgh Steelers	Sunday, Nov. 30, 4:25 p.m., CBS
Week 14	vs. Cincinnati Bengals	Sunday, Dec. 7, 1 p.m., FOX
Week 15	at New England Patriots	Sunday, Dec. 14, 1 p.m., CBS
Week 16	at Cleveland Browns	Sunday, Dec. 21, 1 p.m., CBS
Week 17	vs. Philadelphia Eagles	Sunday, Dec. 28, 4:25 p.m., FOX
Week 18	vs. New York Jets	Jan. 3-4, TBD

Where:

Penn 6
132 W 31st Street
New York, NY 10001

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Specials / Menu

SPECIALS

• $50 Unlimited Bud Light (Draft & Can), Budweiser (Can), Labatt Blue (Draft &Can), Labatt Light (Can) & Wings GRATUITY NOT INCLUDED
• $70 Unlimited Bud Light (Draft & Can), Budweiser (Can), Labatt Blue (Draft & Can), Labatt Light (Can), House Mixed Drinks, House red & white Wine, Happy Dad Seltzers & Wings GRATUITY NOT INCLUDED
• *all guests at a table must participate in one of the two unlimited packages. 
• *Unlimited packages start 30 minutes prior to kick off, and conclude at the end of the 4th quarter, regardless if the game goes into overtime. 

A LA CARTE SPECIALS

$8 Labatt Blue (Draft & Can), $8 Labatt Light (Can), $8 Bud Light (Draft & Can), $8 Budweiser (can), $8 Happy Dad Seltzers, $10 House red & white Wine, $7 Jameson, $7 Absolut, $7 Screwball shots, $10 House Mixed Drinks

COOLER PACKAGES

• TAILGATE $175 ++ (available only during day games for brunch): 1 bottle of champagne, 1 pitcher of bloody Mary, 1 carafe of OJ, 3 a la carte menu items $18 or under
• HAIL MARY $215 ++ (available for all games) 1 case (24) bud light or Labatt blue, 50 wings
• RED ZONE $375 ++ (available for all games) 2 cases (24 each) bud light and / or Labatt blue, 1 case (24) hard seltzer, 75 wings, 2 jumbo pretzels
• THE LOMBARDI $650 ++ (available for all games) 2 cases (24 each) bud light and / or Labatt blue, 1 case (24) hard seltzer, 2 bloody mary or mimosa pitchers, 100 wings, 2 jumbo pretzels, 2 margherita pizzas

GAME DAY MENU

• WINGS  Choice of buffalo, bbq, sweet chili, ten spice
• PULLED PORK NACHOS bbq pulled pork smoked gouda sauce, fresno salsa
  *GF tortilla chips to be available
• SPINACH & ARTICHOKE DIP Tortilla chips *GF tortilla chips to be available
• GUACAMOLE & CHIPS Tortilla chips *GF tortilla chips to be available
• DUNKIN PRETZEL Bavarian soft pretzel, cheddar-ale dip, hot mustard
• MARGHERITA PIZZA Tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, basil  * GF Option available *TO BE OFFERED DURING BRUNCH HOURS ON GAME DAY MENU
• SWEET INFERNO PIZZA cup and char pepperoni, hot honey, mozzarella* GF Option available *TO BE OFFERED DURING BRUNCH HOURS ON GAME DAY MENU
• BEEF ON WECK slow roasted prime rib, au jus, Kaiser roll hand cut fries  *TO BE OFFERED DURING ALL GAMES
• NASHVILLE HOT CAULIFLOWER Crispy fried cauliflower, house made hot sauce, blue cheese *TO BE OFFERED DURING BRUNCH HOURS ON GAME DAY MENU

• For all Sunday Day Games during brunch, we will offer the above game day menu in addition to our brunch menu.
• For all NIGHT and weekday games, we will offer the above game day menu in addition to our dinner menu minus the marg pizza and cauliflower as they are already on the dinner menu.
• The only food items from the dinner menu we would not be able to offer would be the sushi and sashimi.

RESERVATION AND TABLE REQUIREMENTS

• All Reservations inquires must be submitted to BuffaloBillsPenn6NYC@table95.com
• Cancellation Policy: Must cancel with a 48-hour notice or more. Failure to do so will result in the CC on file being charged a $20/person cancellation fee. 

Current Staff:

Matt Kabel – Co-Founder

Being from Orchard Park, I was a Bills fan in the womb. I remember bumping into Jim Kelly in church, Andre Reed in my high school, and Corey Louchiey was one of my weekly customers at the store I worked at. I remember in college the “Flutie-mania” that swept Western New York, and then the QB controversy the following year that I never truly got to experience from the confines of Fordham University in the Bronx. I started to feel out of the Buffalo Bills loop. 

With graduating college came extra free time, and I wanted to dedicate a lot of that time to something I love. At the time of my graduation, there was no real organized place for Bills fans to watch games. I got in touch with the contact for Bills fans in NYC, Mark Bishopp, and we decided to rejuvenate the NYC Bills Backers, which came easy to me due to my career in event planning. I met Matt Soreco on a message board and he had web design skills that Mark and I most certainly did not have. So with Mark’s Bills fan contacts, Matt’s web skills, and my event planning skills and connections with McFadden’s, we were a match made in Bills heaven and the rest is history!

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Matt Soreco – Co-Founder

I’m a rare breed of Bills fan. I’m from downstate. Yonkers to be exact. I’m frequently asked how I became a Bills fan. So how did it happen? When I was about 3 or 4, for whatever reason at that age, I just didn’t want to like the Jets or Giants. My older brother said, “you know, there’s one other “New York” team…” I’m a Bills fan ever since.

I luckily hooked up with Matt Kabel while posting on a Bills fan message board. He asked if I knew about a Backers in NYC. I didn’t know such a thing even existed at the time. I had spent years going to sports bars catching the Bills on a TV without the sound of the game. Years of being the only Bills fan in the house. So when Matt mentioned the prospect of resurrecting a Bills club in NYC, I jumped at the chance to help out. It’s been one heck of a ride ever since! 

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Phil Mann – Advisor

I was born and raised in Niagara Falls, NY, and sort of educated at SUNY Brockport before moving to NYC right after college graduation. While I followed the Bills as a kid, baseball was really my sport (go Reds). Then, right before opening day in 1991, I heard about a Bills bar in Manhattan called Name That Joint (or maybe it was Name This Joint. I could never remember, even though I eventually wound up spending half of my waking hours there. That’s probably why I couldn’t remember.) I was missing the simplicity of home, and suddenly finding myself in a huge group of Western NYers felt like going home. 

Nearly 15 years later, I haven’t missed a Bills game since — even when it has meant having someone Fed Ex a game tape to me at a Caribbean port while I was on a family cruise (of course, I avoided hearing about the result of the game before receiving the tape). Unlike 15 years ago, I now have two small children, but that doesn’t stop me from seeing the games. My wife knew that would be the case when we got married. After all, I “met” the Bills before I met her.

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 Former Staff:

Mike Coniaris – Photographer  

A native of Queens, NY, Mike became a Buffalo Bills fan in 1984 when the then New York Jets left his home state for the swamps of New Jersey. Part of the original Brother Jimmy’s crowd, Mike came over a few years ago to join the Bills Backers at McFadden’s/Calico Jacks, and can often be found at the far end of the bar at Calico’s.

He recently declared himself of sound mind and spirit after suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome following his Super Bowl XXV trip to Tampa, FL. 

While he tries his best, the photos from earlier in a game tend to be more in focus than later on. Some say this is due to the drink special, but one can never tell. When not obsessing about his favorite football team, he is the interim director of communications at midtown Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church (www.fapc.org).

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Kevin Smith – Vice President  

“I wasn’t born in Buffalo, I don’t HAVE to be a Bills fan!” That was me, age 8, after my parents informed me it was time I accept my heritage and that I did indeed have to be a Bills fan. Who could have known that 15 years later, after countless thrills, heartaches and hangovers, I’d be wearing a giant foam chicken wing and screaming like a lunatic on Sundays at McFadden’s.

Even though I grew up in the Connecticut suburbs, Buffalo has always been in my blood. My parents were born and raised there, and ever since I can remember Christmas and Fourth of July meant shufflin’ off to “the motherland” to visit with the 40+ members of my extended family that still call it home. As I grew older and was able explore all that Buffalo has to offer, from partying on Chippewa to tailgating at the Pinto, I was hooked and now I’m proud to call it my adopted home. I look forward to seeing everyone at the games and tailgates. I’m easy to spot, as I’ll usually have on something ridiculous, be it a buffalo head mounted on a trucker hat or the occasional giant chicken wing. 

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Anna Bazzini – Photographer  

I’m originally from Lancaster, NY. I didn’t grow up a Bills fan. I remember hearing the sounds of football and hockey games in the background as a little girl, I just wasn’t interested.

I moved here when I was in my late teens. The longer I was away from home the more important all things Buffalo became. Eventually, I started to pay attention to football, just in time for all the Super Bowl trips. Now I don’t remember what life was like before being a fan. 

The Buffalo Bills aren’t just a team to me, they (no matter the players’ names) are part of my identity. It’s been a long haul but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Michelle Girardi – Columnist 

My “why I love the Bills” tale is pretty much the same as anyone else’s who was born near the east banks of Lake Erie. I was born, and the town elders passed the divine rite of Buffalo Bills Fandemonium onto me. There was no discussion, no questioning. We eat, we breathe, and win or lose, we love the Bills.

Between the “Bills Fan Parking Only” sign on the front of our garage and gathering with the neighbors after church to cheer on Bills during their heyday, I took some fine lessons in how to be a fan. I also had other role models: my uncles, my brother, Grandma, and even the nuns and priests at school taught me how to properly root for my team. Supposedly, God is a Bills fan. This remains to be seen. 

The result of my training is the crazy hooligan you’ve seen an McFadden’s as of late, so the family and the town of Cheektowaga have clearly done their jobs. I just hope I can continue to make them proud! GO BILLS!

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Nick Flickinger – Columnist 

With my dad being a big bills fan, I was indoctrinated early. I’ve been a Bills fan since I knew what football was. I caught the last few years with Jim Kelly, but really started getting hooked with Flutie. I was the last person in the world to admit that Rob Johnson was a bad quarter back, Rob himself even admitted it before I did. My dad has never missed a home Bills playoff game or Super Bowl in the history of the franchise, and tried to start getting me into the tradition early. Although for some reason my mother thought that a 3 year old with a fever shouldn’t be in the middle of then Rich Stadium in the middle of January. Little Nicky had to watch “The Comeback” on TV. I’ve been going to different sports bars every week since I was 9 to watch the Bills, the waitresses always said I was the cutest person there. In 2002 my dad and I discovered the wonderful Bills fan paradise that is McFadden’s. If I’m not at the game, I’m watching it in Calico Jack’s (the restaurant/bar connected to McFadden’s). I have been writing for my school’s sports magazine, and since the most of any week in the fall is spent discussing the upcoming game, writing about it just seemed natural. I’ve cheered for the Bills, cried when the Titans threw and illegal forward pass, and now will officially not be a minor when the Bills win their first Super Bowl.

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Ryan Thompson, Esq. – Advisor 

Born in Buffalo, raised in Orchard Park, and schooled downtown, the Buffalo Bills were simply a part of my everyday life. For us, being a Bills fan was almost a mandatory requirement. The team was as much of a part of our city as snow and chicken wings. It was in your blood whether you liked it or not. And I learned that when I left home at 18, and ironically found myself more of a Bills fan than ever. Because no longer was it just about a football team, it was about hometown pride. And from Buffalo to Boulder to Belfast to Boston to Brooklyn, as I moved around, I became more and more devoted to cheering on our continuing quest for those gold, diamond-encrusted rings. 

It was in Boston, while working as a newspaper reporter, that I got my first dose of the organization called the Bills Backers, and I spent my Sundays in the fall drinking $2 beers at the Harp. And when I moved to New York, after initially being rejected by those Brother Jimmy-bastards, I finally found McFadden’s in time for the inaugural season, and I’ve been here ever since. Now I don’t ever want to leave. Bury me at McFadden’s on a Sunday, with a gravestone that simply reads, “A Bills Fan.”

2011
October 28, 2011 – Hit the 2,000 member mark.
October 15, 2011 – Made the NY Daily News.
April 28, 2011 – Andre Reed attends our 10th annual draft party.

2008
September 24, 2008 – NYCBBB on the Shredd & Ragan Show.
September 15, 2008 – Hit the 1,800 member mark.

2006
April 29, 2006 – Fifth annual draft party.

2005
July 20, 2005 – Hit the 1,000 member mark.
April 23, 2005 – Fourth annual draft party.
February 1, 2005 – Featured on official Bills website.
January 25, 2005 – Hit the 900 member mark.
January 24, 2005 – Marv Levy book signing event.

2004
December 21, 2004 – Dan Schulman’s documentary makes official site.
November 7, 2004 – First NYCBBB group trip to the Ralph.
October 31, 2004 – Tim Russert visits McFadden’s.
October 24, 2004 – Raised $1,107 for Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
October 10, 2004 – Third annual tailgate at the meadowlands.
October 7, 2004 – Hit the 800 member mark.
October 7, 2004 – Featured on official Bills website.
August 15, 2004 – Hit the 700 member mark.
April 24, 2004 – Third annual draft party.

2003
December 8, 2003 – Kenny’s Pinto chosen as our official home tailgate.
November 9, 2003 – Raised $1,015 for the Drew Bledsoe Foundation.
November 9, 2003 – Charlie the Butcher visits McFadden’s.
October 27, 2003 – Made the Buffalo News.
October 21, 2003 – Hit the 600 member mark.
October 12, 2003 – Second annual tailgate at the meadowlands.
September 8, 2003 – Hit the 500 member mark.
April 26, 2003 – Second annual draft party.
March 11, 2003 – NYCBBB.com gets a new look.

2002
December 3, 2002 – Hit the 400 member mark.
November 24, 2002 – First tailgate at the Meadowlands.
November 22, 2002 – Featured on official website again. Josh Reed Q&A.
October 24, 2002 – Featured on official Bills website.
September 8, 2002 – First NYCBBB game. Against the Jets.
August 20, 2002 – NYCBBB.com is launched.
July 12, 2002 – McFadden’s chosen for permanent home for NYCBBB.
April 20, 2002 – First annual draft party.
January 25, 2002 – First website launched on AOL.
January 10, 2002 – Planning for NYCBBB Begins.

1) Where does NYCBBB watch games?

Penn 6
132 W 31st Street
New York, NY 10001

2) How do I join?

Just subscribe to our e-mail list. Even that’s not required. If you share the passion for the Bills, you are more than welcome to come to any of our events.

3) Is there any membership fee?

No. Just come, and root for the Bills.

4) How can I keep up to date with the latest news and events?

Sign up to our e-mail list.

5) Are non-bills fans allowed?

Sure. Anyone can come to our events. Of course you may feel out of place in the company of hundreds of Bills fans.

6) Are there drink specials at Penn 6?

Yes, to see our drink specials go to:
https://nycbbb.com/features/drink-specials-times/

7) Can I reserve a table?

Yes! For more info, see https://nycbbb.com/features/drink-specials-times/

8) Can I help out with NYCBBB?

Sure! Just email us at staff@nycbbb.com and tell us how you’d like to help or if you have any suggestions.

Click here:
https://nycbbb.com/features/shredd_ragan.mp3

Back in the mid-80s, Buffalo Bills fans around the city began to meet up at a bar on the Upper East Side to watch their Bills. The name of the bar was originally “Name This Joint”, then the “Rugby Club” and finally “Brother Jimmy’s”. The bar would show the game with the sound on a large screen TV in the back, and lines would form out front to get one of the prime seats. However, with each name change of the bar it became less and less of an official Bills bar and after the 2000 season, they decided to change direction and televise all games and give no special treatment to the Bills fans that had patronized them on Sundays for years.

At this same time, I had graduated college (let’s go Fordham!) and was looking for a place in the city where I could watch Bills games. I looked on the official Bills site and saw that Mark Bishopp was the contact person. Mark had been in charge of the Backers at the old bar for a few years and told me about the upcoming change in the bar policy. Since he travels for his business he has trouble being at every game and asked if I could help him run things. It was agreed upon that I would go to the bar and get e-mail addresses from all the fans there and we would begin to find a new bar. That very weekend I intended on going to the bar to do just that when I missed my train to the city, so I figured I would just go the following weekend.

Unfortunately, that particular Sunday that I missed my train was September 9, 2001. After 9/11, Mark and I decided that we would wait until the following season to reform the NYC Bills Backers.

During the following off-season, I luckily met Matt Soreco, a native New Yorker and lifelong Bills fan that had never watched a Bills game in NYC with other Bills fans. Matt offered to help Mark and I out, especially with designing a web page. We decided to throw a draft party in April since the Bills had the 4th pick. We posted on message boards, created a web page to get the word out, and picked a bar on the Upper East Side (Bar Coastal) for everybody to meet at. Draft day came and we had about 25 Bills fans show up and spend the day watching our team select key college prospects. We made sure to get everybody’s e-mail, started to keep a list, and NYCBBB started to take shape.

We now had a list of Bills fans, a web page, and a promising upcoming season. All we needed was a bar that would show the Bills game with sound and offer an affordable beer and wing special. The three of us spent the summer going to different bars around Manhattan and talking to owners about our group. One of my friends owned a portion of a large bar on East 42nd Street that received a small football crowd on Sundays (I was one of them!). After several e-mails and beers, the NYCBBB had a new home… McFadden’s! They offered to show the Bills game with sound on a big screen TV and give us a wing/beer special, and most importantly, accommodate us as we grew!

The first game attracted about 20 people. We figured we’d be happy if we got 150 people to show up by the end of the season. Little did we know that we would have more than that within 3 weeks! Every week there were more and more fans showing up, and we experienced growing pains, like running out of wings and beer! By week 9 we had filled McFadden’s with over 350 Bills fans.

We decided that we needed to make Sundays at McFadden’s more “Buffalo-ish”, so with your suggestions we brought in Labatt Blue and the owners agreed to start making the wings with Franks Hot Sauce. At one point, I even went into the kitchen and taught the cooks how to make REAL Buffalo wings! As one fan said, “being in McFadden’s on Sunday is like being back in Buffalo”. By season’s end, we had over 400 addresses on our e-mail list and a great foundation to build on at McFadden’s for the following season. Since Mark was so busy caring for his family and business, he couldn’t afford the needed time to NYCBBB, and stepped down from leadership.

The 2003 season saw even more improvements (although not on the field!). With a visit from Charlie the Butcher, came beef-on-weck to the McFadden’s Sunday menu, as well as Sahlen’s Hot Dogs! NYCBBB raised over $1,000 for Drew Bledsoe’s Parenting With Dignity organization. A classifieds page on the website was created for members to advertise their businesses. NYCBBB decided to link up with BillsDaily.com to provide up-to-date news to members. NYCBBB also teamed up with Kenny “Pinto Ron” Johnson to create an official tailgating spot at Ralph Wilson Stadium, and we even created a page devoted to him on nycbbb.com! Our Jets/Bills tailgate at the Meadowlands attracted over 200 Bills fans and has now reached legendary status! At season’s end we had close to 600 addresses on our mailing list.

The 2004 Season began with over 700 members. After solid turnouts at McFadden’s for the pre-season games, our fans filled both McFadden’s and Calico Jack’s for the first two games of the season. Despite a slow start on the field, crowds remained strong throughout the year. It climaxed on the final game of the season, when the NYPD had to erect barriers on 2nd Avenue to contain the hundreds of Bills fans overflowing into the area outside of the bar. NYCBBB also welcomed celebrities Tim Russert of NBC’s Meet the Press and author of City of Light, Lauren Belfer. Over $1,200 was raised for Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, and several more hundred for Bills fans serving in the Middle East. NYCBBB also held its first field trip to Buffalo, where 60 members went on a tour of Ralph Wilson Stadium, mingled with Bills Alumni, and saw the Bills beat up on the Jets.

Perhaps our biggest improvement of 2004 was bringing on additional staff to help Matt and I run NYCBBB. Anna was brought in to serve as official photographer, Kevin as coordinator of tailgating, Ryan as a columnist/marketer, Michelle as a columnist, and Phil as an advisor. Together, the five of them have greatly improved NYCBBB. Matt and I are ecstatic to have them aboard and look forward to working with them for years to come!

Matt and I never expected it to grow this much so fast! None of this could have been possible without the spirit of Bills fans in this great city. Please feel free to keep sending us your suggestions.

NYCBBB New Years Eve Party @ Tracks
NYCBBB will be throwing a New Year’s Eve Party at Tracks Bar & Grill on December 31st. Tracks, which is owned by a fellow Bills fan, is located in the Long Island Railroad section of Penn Station and boasts the longest bar in all of NYC! From 9pm-1am $50 will get you unlimited beer, wine, WELL drinks, and a large buffet of food. Anybody that’s ever been out in Manhattan on New Year’s Eve knows that this is an incredible deal! The party is open to non-Bills fans so feel free to bring along friends! It’s probably as close as you can get to Times Square without being in either an obnoxious crowd or spending an arm and a leg at a bar! See you there!

New Jersey Jets vs. Buffalo Bills Tailgate
Are you ready for NYCBBB’s Legendary 4th Annual Tailgate Party on January 1st, 2006??? We will again be in Lot 16-C, which is conveniently located near several portable bathrooms. Parking is $15, and I suggest getting there EARLY (9am?) to get a spot. Last year many of you didn’t listen and couldn’t get a spot near us. Yes it’s going to be harder arriving early this year being New Year’s Day, but you can get all the sleep you need when you’re dead!

Beer n’ Food
We’ll have kegs of Labatt Blue and bulk quantities of mimosas and bloody marys. $5 will get you an unlimited amount of all of these fine alcoholic beverages. There will be plenty of grill space around, so feel free to bring food to cook!

Party Bus
Due to the Holiday, there will unfortunately be no party bus this year. We recommend driving, taking the NJ Transit bus, or finding a ride on our message board.

J – E – T – S
SUCK SUCK SUCK!!!