Buffalo Jills gather to celebrate 40 years of thrills . . . and chills!

If you’re a Buffalo Bills fan, you’ll understand how Jo Anne Gaulin felt the summer of 1967.
She watched her favorite team trade their star player — quarterback Jack Kemp. She saw fellow Bills supporters grumble as they sat in the cold at the Rockpile to watch the games. “I felt we needed some color,” she said. So she came up with an idea.
It came to fruition a few months later — clad in knee-length, blue pleated skirts, turtlenecks, blue sweaters and the trademark white boots.
Paulin is the founder of the Buffalo Jills, the Bill’s famous cheerleading squad.

http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/129391.html

Training Camp pics

The first Saturday of Buffalo Bills training camp was the scene where two items of interest of Jills fans were unveiled to the public. First off, Pro Bowl Jill Aimee showed off a new jacket, in a design that won't be available to the public until 2008. We'll see the Jills sporting the jackets, as well as a few other new items, this fall as a way of giving the public a preview of Reebok's new designs. In addition to the new Jills gear, the much-anticipated 2007-2008 Buffalo Jills Swimsuit Calendar showed up at the Bills store just before the start of the afternoon session. It features 41 of the area's most beautiful young women posing in bikinis and other swimwear in photos taken right in Western New York. Now, visitors to training camp can pick up their own calendars and have them autographed right there.

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Bandette of The Week Erin J

This week, despite any objections she may have...lol, we take a look at the head coach of the NLL's premier dance squad, the Bandettes. I'm talking of course about Erin J, who's been coaching them for the past few years since leaving the sidelines of Ralph Wilson Stadium herself. That's right, she's very recently removed from the cheering herself, having been a Buffalo Jill from 1998-2002. After the 2001 season, she even earned a trip to the Pro Bowl and to this day still keeps in touch with many of the women she cheered with in Hawaii. Besides the sidelines, she also represented Buffalo in one other way. If you can actually believe she was old enough (and I still don't...I think she lies about her age...only saying she's older than she actually is), she was unable to cheer during the Bills' Super Bowl years...because she was serving in Desert Storm as a member of the US Army. Check the files section of the webgroup (registration required) for a set of pictures and bios of Erin from the past several years. Included in that is a copy of the letter she wrote back to Buffalo from when she was in Hawaii for the Pro Bowl.

Bills training camp

Attn Bills and Jills fans:

Starting Thursday, July 26th, the Buffalo Bills start their annual training camp in Pittsford, NY out the outskirts of Rochester and the Jills will be there. This will be your first opportunity this year to combine your love of the Bills with your love of the beautiful women who will be gracing the sidelines of Ralph Wilson Stadium this fall. The Jills will be on hand for pictures and autographs throughout training camp. Of course the big thing to get autographed...will be the Buffalo Jills 2007-2008 Swimsuit Calendar...to be released very soon.

For more information on Bills training camp, visit http://www.buffalobills.com/team/camp.html

The camp schedule (subject to change due to weather) can be found at http://www.buffalobills.com/team/TrainingCamp.jsp

Buffalo Jill of The Week Kelli

This week's look at the women who guide the girls on Buffalo's sidelines brings us to Jills Choreographer Kelli Wagner. As the Jills Choreographer, her work has been featured on ESPN 2 and the NFL Network. She has successfully grown the Junior Jills organization into a coveted program for youth in Western New York and its surrounding areas. Kelli’s choreography has also been featured on Fox TV, ABC-Buffalo, several Buffalo radio station events, many community events, overseas military shows, as well as HSBC Arena-Buffalo. Kelli continues her dance education by not only instructing Master level classes, conventions and seminars but keeps her choreography fresh by attending them as well. Kelli is once again expanding her dance career and is very excited to be joining the Carol Joy’s Fusion Dance Studio as Director. Check the files section of the webgroup (registration required) for a look at Kelli over the last few years.