Buffalo Bills Make Huge Donation To Support Girls Flag Football

Even though the NFL season is over for the hometown team, that does not mean the Buffalo Bills are closing up shop until next summer.

With the off season, the team gets to work right away preparing for the next year. Not only does the team have quite a few free agents that need to be resigned or replaced, the team is preparing for the NFL Draft, moving staff in any trades, and of course the continued construction of the new Highmark Stadium. While that is a lot, the Bills organization is also making sure its doing its part in supporting you sports all over the Empire State.

As part of the countrywide celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, the Buffalo Bills organization announced that they are making a massive financial contribution to middle schools all over New York to support and help set up girls flag-football teams.

The NFL and it's teams have had a flag football initiative for quite a while and this huge $260,000 donation the Bills are making is set to help 21 middle schools from Buffalo to Syracuse set up modified girls flag football teams. The schools are evenly split between NYSPHSAA Section 3, Section 5, and Section 6. Those schools include Amherst Middle School, Fredonia Middle School, Sweet Home Middle School, and several others.

Each of the nearly 2 dozen schools will receive $3,000, flag football equipment and supplies, along with invitations to coach and player events at the Bills training facilities at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park. This is all part of an initiative that the New York State Public High School Athletic Association started when it introduced flag football for high schools in 2022.

The schools that were chosen should have thier programs up and running this coming spring.