KANSAS CITY, Mo. —

Bills Mafia is preparing to take over Kansas City this weekend as their team battles for a spot in the Super Bowl. 

Grant Tower is one of the owners of Taps on Main. It’s an official Buffalo Bills Backers bar in downtown Kansas City. Tower said they are ready for the influx of fans. 

“It’s going to be crazy,” said Tower. “We’ll be wall-to-wall blue in here from Friday through Sunday.” 

Tower, a Kansas City native raised on Buffalo spirit, has been anticipating this moment for years. Tower’s father is from Tonawanda, so the family has ties to Western New York. 

“My brothers and I, being born and raised in Kansas City, but as Bills fans, have waited our whole lives for this rivalry to happen,” Tower said.

Taps on Main isn’t the only spot gearing up for a busy weekend. Alan Burns, owner of Al’s Bar and Grill in Parkville, Missouri about 20 minutes outside Kansas City, is also preparing for the increase of Bills fans.

“It takes a lot of preparation, and we’re going to be swamped,” said Burns, a lifelong Bills fan from Buffalo. “We love our Bills fans, and we love it when people from Buffalo come in.”

Both locations are ready to serve as home bases for the Bills Mafia, offering familiar comforts like chicken wings and camaraderie. “We’re getting ready because we’re going to sell an awful lot of chicken wings on Sunday,” said Burns. “It’s going to be as big as it was last Super Bowl, I think.”

For many, this game represents more than a playoff matchup; it’s a chance to end a 30-year Super Bowl drought. “It feels different this year,” Tower said. “This feels like the moment we’ve been waiting for.”

Burns said, “I am 70 years old. I’m running out of time. I would really like to win the Super Bowl at home. I have the shirt, you know, just one before I die,” he said.

The Bills play the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday night at 6:30 p.m.