What was supposed to be a day of celebration for the NFL’s newest champion turned into one of unspeakable horror.
Roughly a million people gathered on Wednesday to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVIII victory, when gunshots rang out across the parade. In total, one person died and 22 more were injured in the shooting, most of them being children.
The Buffalo Bills may be the Chiefs’ rivals on the field, but their fanbase, commonly known as Bills Mafia , has been known for rallying around those in need. As such, Bills Mafia has donated en masse to Children’s Hospital in Kansas City, where many victims of the shooting are being treated.
A fan on the Bills subreddit shared a link to donate to the hospital, while Del Reid, co-founder of Bills Mafia, supported a campaign for people to donate $22, in reference to the 22 victims of the attack.
“It would break my heart for Buffalo to finally have a championship parade and for something like that to happen,” Reid told KSHB 41 . “It breaks my heart that it happened to Chiefs fans … for something that is supposed to be — like you mentioned a moment ago — a communal celebration, for it to end like that. It just — it sucks. I wish I had a better way to articulate it, but it just sucks for there to be a loss of life and for people — children — to be injured.”