Either the Buffalo Bills or Baltimore Ravens will puff out their chest and move on to the AFC championship game.
Ryan Fitzpatrick may be beating his bare chest before the game kicks off.
The former Bills quarterback who has a proclivity for displacing his shirt will be in attendance and on the field at Highmark Stadium as the team's Legend of the Game guest. Kickoff is 6:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Fitzpatrick gets the honors of giving a pregame speech, pumping up the crowd and leading a "Shout" song chant. Bills Mafia will join in to pay homage to former Bills coach Marv Levy's motivational pregame question to his players: "Where else would you rather be, then right here, right now?"
Fitzpatrick, who played for nine teams in his 17-year NFL career, was with Buffalo from 2009-2012. He has eight other former teams to choose to root for but has been a fervent Bills fan since retiring.
Fitzpatrick attended, while still a member of the Washington Football Team, Buffalo's wild-card steamrolling over the New England Patriots in January 2022. He ripped off shirt and gave a primal roar in sub-zero wind chills to celebrate the victory.
Fitzpatrick went shirtless, chest-bumped the Bills mascot and hugged Josh Allen on Amazon's Thursday Night Football set after the Bills defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in October 2023. Fitzpatrick and Allen love each other.
Fitzpatrick has been an analyst for Thursday Night Football for three seasons since retiring from the NFL in 2022.
He posted a 5-second video on X combing his chest hair in preparation for Sunday.
Ryan Fitzpatrick: a guy who will give you the shirt off his back. He doesn't need it anyway.
How many teams did Ryan Fitzpatrick play for?
Fitzpatrick played for, and started, for nine teams, the most in NFL history for a quarterback.
He was selected by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh with the sixth to last pick of the 2005 NFL Draft. He was the 14th of 14 quarterbacks taken. Fitzpatrick played for the Rams (2005-2006), Cincinnati Bengals (2007-2008), Buffalo Bills (2009-2012), Tennessee Titans (2013), Houston Texans (2014), New York Jets (2015-2016), Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2017-2018), Miami Dolphins (2019-2020) and Washington Football Team (2021).
Who were the Bills Legends of the Game this year?
The former Bills players who participated as Legend of the Game at home contests this year were; Andre Reed (Week 1), John Fina (Week 3), Jim Richter (Week 7), George Wilson (Week 9), Peerless Price (Week 11), Doug Flutie (Week 13), Marcellus Wiley (Week 16), Terrence McGee (Week 17), Kyle Williams (wild-card round).
