The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo, New York metropolitan area, and play their home games in the suburb of Orchard Park. The Buffalo Bills are currently members of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League. The Buffalo Bills began play in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League and joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL Merger. The 1964 Buffalo Bills allowed just 913 yards rushing on 300 attempts during the regular season, a pro football record. The same defense registered fifty quarterback sacks, a Buffalo Bills record that stands today, even though it was established in a 14-game season. Eight members of the 1964 Bufalo Bills squad were on that year's AFL Eastern Division All-Star Team. The Buffalo Bills won AFL championships in both 1964 and 1965 and were one of only three teams to appear in an AFL championship game for three consecutive years, and the only AFL team to play in the post-season for four straight years, 1963 through 1966. Before the 1969 season, the Buffalo Bills drafted running back O.J. Simpson, who would become the face of the franchise through the 1970s. In 1971, not only did the Buffalo Bills finish in sole possession of the NFL's worst overall record at 1–13, but they also scored the fewest points, 184, in the league that year while allowing the most, 394. 1973 was a season of change. Joe Ferguson became their new quarterback, the Buffalo Bills moved into a new stadium, Simpson recorded a 2,000-yard season and was voted NFL MVP, and the team had its first winning record since 1966. The Buffalo Bills made the NFL playoffs for the first time in 1974, but lost in the first round to the eventual Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers. 1980 marked another breakthrough for the Buffalo Bills. They beat the archrival Miami Dolphins for the first time in 11 years in their season opener, en route to winning their first AFC East title. In the famous 1983 draft the Buffalo Bills selected quarterback Jim Kelly as their replacement to an aging Joe Ferguson, but Kelly decided to play in the upstart United States Football League instead. After the USFL's demise, Jim Kelly joined the Buffalo Bills for the 1986 season, welcomed into town as a hero and a savior. He soon would prove to be worth the wait. Midway through the 1986 season, the Buffalo Bills fired coach Hank Bullough and replaced him with Marv Levy, the former head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs. The Buffalo Bills started marching back to the top. After the strike year of 1987, in 1988, the rookie season of running back Thurman Thomas, the Buffalo Bills went 12–4 and finished atop the AFC East for the first of four consecutive seasons. In 1990 the Buffalo Bills switched to a hurry-up offense, and it started one of the most successful runs in NFL history. The Buffalo Bills were overwhelming favorites to beat the New York Giants in Super Bowl XXV, but the defensive plan laid out by coach Bill Parcells and defensive coordinator Bill Belichick kept Buffalo in check throughout the game. The Buffalo Bills would then proceed to make it to the Super Bowl the next three years, losing each one.