{"id":24669,"date":"2025-01-23T10:45:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=24669"},"modified":"2025-01-23T10:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:45:43","slug":"former-baylor-football-star-leads-buffalo-bills-to-brink-of-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2025\/01\/former-baylor-football-star-leads-buffalo-bills-to-brink-of-super-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Baylor football star leads Buffalo Bills to brink of Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24670\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bernard-jan25.jpg\" alt=\"Terrel Bernard in action for the Buffalo Bills\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bernard-jan25.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bernard-jan25-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bernard-jan25-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bernard-jan25-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Buffalo Bills are playing this weekend for a spot in the Super Bowl &#8212; their first since 1994 &#8212; thanks in large part to a Baylor Bear.<\/p>\n<p>Barely three years removed from winning Sugar Bowl MVP after Baylor beat Ole Miss, two-time Baylor graduate Terrel Bernard (BSED &#8217;20, MSED &#8217;21) is now the Bills&#8217; starting middle linebacker. Before this season began, Bernard&#8217;s teammates voted him one of two team captains (alongside All-Pro quarterback Josh Allen) &#8212; a huge sign of respect for a young player.<\/p>\n<p>During the regular season, Bernard finished among Buffalo&#8217;s team leaders in interceptions (1st), tackles (2nd) and fumble recoveries (3rd). Then in\u00a0last week&#8217;s AFC Divisional Playoffs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buffalobills.com\/video\/terrel-bernard-forces-and-recovers-fumble-on-mark-andrews-reception-bills-vs-ravens-divisional-round\">Bernard forced and recovered a key fourth-quarter fumble<\/a> in the Bills&#8217; 27-25 win over Baltimore. Interviewed on national TV after the game, he used his platform to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BUFootball\/status\/1881478796601364696\">give all glory and honor to Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI wanna give all glory and honor to Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior.\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TerrelBernard_2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TerrelBernard_2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SicEm?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SicEm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NamwYYFk5V\">pic.twitter.com\/NamwYYFk5V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Baylor Football (@BUFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BUFootball\/status\/1881478796601364696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If the Bills win Sunday, Bernard would become the 32nd different Bear all-time to make the Super Bowl, and it would make Super Bowl LIX the 29th title game since 1980 to include at least one Baylor alum. Tune in Sunday at 5:30 p.m. CT (Fox) to see what happens!<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Terrel Bernard and Baylor Football!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills are playing this weekend for a spot in the Super Bowl &#8212; their first since 1994 &#8212; thanks in large part to a Baylor Bear. Barely three years removed from winning Sugar Bowl MVP after Baylor beat Ole Miss, two-time Baylor graduate Terrel Bernard (BSED &#8217;20, MSED &#8217;21) is now the Bills&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}