Buffalo Bills Reveal Three Legends of Game vs. Jacksonville Jaguars in London

Three former Buffalo Bills will travel across the pond for pregame honors during Sunday's game in London.

The Buffalo Bills may be thousands of miles from home when they face the Jacksonville Jaguars at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday, but they are technically the "home" team. That means that the end zones will bear the Bills iconography, and like any other home game, Buffalo will honor its previous greats.

This time around, the Bills will honor not one, not two, but three legends before Sunday's game. Fred Jackson, Thurman Thomas and Lorenzo Alexander will all travel across the pond to help cheer on their former team.

After Jackson started his career in the Indoor Football League and NFL Europa, the Bills took a flier on him and he took advantage of the opportunity. Jackson spent eight of his nine NFL seasons in Buffalo and racked up over 8,000 total yards with 37 touchdowns. Nearly a decade since he left the team, Jackson still has the third-most rushing yards in franchise history with 5,646.

"It's gonna be a blast," Jackson said, per the Bills' site. "Lorenzo was a great captain, he's known for that. He was a great leader on that team. … Thurman has always been my big brother, every time I needed something, he was one of the first people I talked to after my games and ask him what it is he saw in the game and what he saw watching the film, so it's always good to talk to him." 

Jackson celebrates during a game against the Cleveland Browns / © Andrew Weber, USA TODAY

A 1988 second-round pick out of Oklahoma State, Thomas soon established himself as one of the best running backs in league history and a pillar of the Bills' 1990s juggernauts. The Hall of Fame back spent 12 of 13 NFL seasons in Buffalo, becoming the team's all-time leading rusher with 11,938 yards and 65 touchdowns. Thomas led the league in yards from scrimmage for four years in a row and even won league MVP in 1991.

Unlike the other two, Alexander only spent the end of his career in Buffalo, but it was easily his most-productive stint. In just four seasons with the Bills, the linebacker racked up 24 sacks, nearly tripling his career total to that point. He earned a Pro Bowl nod in 2016, his first season in Buffalo, and continued to play well until retiring after the 2019 campaign.

Above all, the three Buffalo legends want to show international NFL fans just what the Bills and their fans can do.

"Just come be Bills Mafia," Jackson said. "Show London what Bills Mafia is all about. … Hopefully we can spread the fanbase."