Standing twenty feet tall and built directly into the structure, a massive broken folding table immortalizes the Bills Mafia’s most notorious tailgating tradition in the new Highmark Stadium.
The Bills Mafia is one of the most passionate and dedicated fan bases in all of professional sports. Whether at home or on the road, they show out and take over stadiums for every game.
Hell, it doesn't even need to be around a game. Go anywhere in the United States, and you'll find Buffalo Bills fans. There's just that bond where, if you see someone wearing anything Bills-related in public, you have to stop and just share a simple "Go Bills".
They truly are a special group of people. And the team knows that.
That's why they're honoring the Bills Mafia in the most Buffalo way imaginable in the new Highmark Stadium.
In the concourse of the new stadium, the Bills have installed a special piece of art in the form of a 20-foot-tall broken folding table. It's built right into the beams to be part of the structure and pays tribute to a tradition that began a decade ago.
As far as why the tradition of jumping through folding tables began, that's anyone's guess. Fans started seeing it in videos online, and it continued to grow and grow until it became something the fan base is just known for now.
The act became so notorious that folding table prices in Western New York have often risen during football season. You've even had cities reportedly ban the selling of folding tables to anyone who wasn't a resident of the area in order to curb Bills fans.
Of course, nothing is going to stop a fan from jumping through a table if their mind's set on it.
All in all, this is a harmless tribute to Bills fans from an organization that means so much to them. It's certainly going to be interesting as more easter eggs designed into the stadium are discovered when it opens to fans for the first time on August 8 for the Return of the Red & Blue scrimmage.
