Bills Running Back Taiwan Jones Invites Wrongfully Convicted Felon to Attend Bills Playoff Game

Buffalo Bills running back Taiwan Jones is doing something really awesome ahead of the Bills playoff game this weekend. He’s invited Valentino Dixon, a Bills fan who spent 27 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, to attend Saturday’s playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts.

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Via ESPN:

While the Buffalo Bills spent the past 25 years without hosting an NFL playoff game, Valentino Dixon spent most of it imprisoned for a crime he did not commit.

Dixon, a big Bills fan, missed most of the team’s Super Bowl runs in the 1990s and its most recent home playoff game, in 1996.

After it was announced that Bills Stadium would open for the first time all season, Jones gifted Dixon tickets to the Bills’ wild-card game Saturday against the Indianapolis Colts. It’s the latest in a series of highlights in Dixon’s life since he was exonerated and released from prison in 2018 after serving 27 years at Attica Correctional Facility in New York.

#Bills RB Taiwan Jones has gifted Bills playoff tickets to a Buffalo man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 27 years behind bars according to ESPN's @Marcel_LJ. #BillsMafia https://t.co/M0XJp6qHT0

— 7 News WKBW (@WKBW) January 8, 2021

Jones called Dixon and said he was blown away by the conversation.

“When he called, it was like talking to an old friend. Our conversation was real genuine,” Jones said. “I think what stood out the most was that he didn’t have any grudge in him. He sounded like he was just real happy with where his life is today. I was just so amazed at where he’s at emotionally and mentally.

“He definitely showed a lot of character of who he is, because he’s just a happy dude. He didn’t know me or what I was going to do for him and he just had so much enthusiasm. I was happy to be able to do something to make him happy.”

Just another reason to like the Bills this postseason.

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