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Playoff history against the Bills a short but successful one for the Patriots

The New England Patriots and Buffalo Bills have been division rivals since the days of the old AFL in the 1960s. Joining the league as two of its founding members, they shared a spot in the Eastern Division that would become the AFC East after the NFL-AFL merger.

Playing each other twice each season, the Patriots and Bills have therefore met 124 different times through the years. Of those meetings, however, only one have come in the playoffs.

That game took place almost 60 years ago, on December 28, 1963, and was the first of its kind.