14 Gifts for the Bills Fan Who Already Owns Everything

14 Gifts for the Bills Fan Who Already Owns Everything

Every Bills fan has a person in their life who dreads December. You cannot buy them a jersey, they have one. You cannot buy them a hat, they are wearing a hat. The team store sells you the same six things it sold you last year and the year before.

So here is a list for that person. None of it is a jersey.

Start with the stuff that is not clothing

The easiest win when someone owns every shirt is to stop buying shirts.

The Buffalo Crushed Velvet Blanket is the one that surprises people. It lives on the couch, it gets used every Sunday from September to January, and nobody already owns one because most fan merch stops at the wardrobe.

If you want the genuinely strange option, the Custom Buffalo Football Face Pillow lets you choose which player's face you are hugging. It is either the best gift on this list or a cry for help, and you already know which one it is for the person you are buying for.

Mugs are the low-stakes version of this. Under twenty dollars, used daily, and a gameday mug gets a laugh every morning in a way a shirt in a drawer does not.

Then there is the long tail of things nobody thinks to buy: a golf towel for the fan who also plays, an insulated lunch box, a necktie for the one who has to wear a suit to work and wants to smuggle the team in. Wrapping paper too, which is either the funniest thing on this list or the most unhinged, depending on your family.

Then the accessories they would not buy themselves

This is the real gift-buying sweet spot. People buy themselves shirts. They do not buy themselves a nice bag.

An embroidered dad hat works for the fan who wants to rep the team without announcing it across their chest. It is also the safe pick if you do not know their shirt size, which, let us be honest, is most of us.

Tote bags and weekenders are the sleeper pick. Stadium bag rules have tightened across the league over the last few years, so a clear or compliant bag is something fans genuinely need and reliably forget to buy until the morning of the game. Check the current Highmark Stadium policy before you commit to a specific size.

And if it has to be a shirt

Fine. It usually has to be a shirt.

The trick is picking one they could not have bought anywhere else. Anything with a logo on it, they own. Anything that makes a joke only an actual fan would get, they do not.

A few that work:

  • He is Rizzin' is the one that gets stopped in grocery stores
  • Victory Monday is for the person whose entire week depends on Sunday
  • Just Once In My Lifetime is for the long-suffering ones, and it hits harder every year
  • You Serious Josh needs no explanation to anyone who watched that game

A note on sizing, since this is where gifts go wrong

If you do not know their size, go one up rather than one down. A fan shirt that is slightly big becomes a gameday shirt. A fan shirt that is slightly small becomes a rag in the garage.

If you genuinely have no idea, that is what the hats and the blanket are for.

One practical thing about timing

Everything we make is printed when you order it rather than sitting in a warehouse, which is why the designs are current instead of being whatever got bulk-ordered in 2022. The trade-off is that it needs a few days to produce before it ships.

For December delivery, order by the first week of the month and you are comfortable. Order on the twentieth and you are gambling.

Browse the full collection if none of these land, or start with home decor if the person on your list truly does own every shirt in existence.

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