The Buffalo Bills have been around since 1960, and a few select fans have been there every step of the way. Janet Gallo, 83, is one of them. 

As she sat in her garage filled with Bills photos and autographed memorabilia, she pulled up a video on her tablet. It was Bills legend Jim Kelly sending her a happy 80th birthday message a few years ago.  

"I was so surprised, I cried actually. I was crying. But I just love him," she said.

The NFL Hall of Fame quarterback is her all-time favorite player, but Gallo's love affair with the Bills goes all the way back to their inaugural season in 1960 when she went to their first game at War Memorial Stadium. She was 20 years old and six months pregnant at the time.

"It was so exciting, and the crowd was unbelievable. I fell in love with football from that moment on," she said.

And ever since then, she hasn’t let much of anything stop her from going to the games.

"I’ve had surgeries. I had 16 operations but I made sure all that surgery was after a game or way before the season started," she said.

Through more than six decades of being a Bills fan, Gallo has missed a grand total of three home games — once was when her husband had open heart surgery and again when she had COVID-19 a couple of years ago.

"I hated the whole world when I tell you I hated the whole world. The only good thing that came out of it, we beat New England," she said.

For the last 40 years or so, she’s had a front row seat at now Highmark Stadium to see some of the biggest stars in Bills history and struck up a friendship with many, including Kelly.

"He’d come out. He’d look over at me and I’d say ‘Hi, Jim!’ And it all started like that. So when he’d leave after a game he’s give me a high-five. So we had that connection right away," she said.

Many of the former players have taken to calling her "Mom," and given her countless pieces of game-used memorabilia like gloves and balls. She even got to know the team’s original owner and founder, the late Ralph Wilson Jr.

"And the last game [of the season] he’d come over and say to me and say, ‘You’ll be back next year, right? And I’d say, 'Yes. I’ll be back'," she said.

She's appeared in television commercials and can often be spotted on the game broadcasts from her seat in the front row behind the field goal posts near the tunnel. Gallo has been up close and personal with many a player jumping into the crowd to celebrate a touchdown.

Her son, actor and filmmaker Vincent Gallo, based a character on his Bills-obsessed mother in his movie "Buffalo 66."

Gallo has even attended a few Pro Football Hall of Fame ceremonies, including Kelly's.

She's seen AFL championships at the Old Rockpile, the Bills infamous win over the Dolphins in 1980 to break a decade-long losing steak to Miami, the Super Bowl runs of the 1990s, and of course, the current stretch of success led by Sean McDermott and company.

She’s been along through the good times and the bad — her passion never wavering — never a fair-weather fan.

"My husband used to tell me, 'Jan, you have to be crazy.' I’d come home. I’d be soaking wet from head to toe. Frozen. My fingers, my feet. And I’d tell him, 'I don’t care. I love it. I just love it'," she said.

And for someone who’s almost literally seen it all, there’s only one thing left to witness.

"I’ve been to all four Super Bowls. And I’m getting old now and I wish they’d win one for before I leave this Earth, hopefully," she said.