A young Cherie Hall got her first taste of Buffalo Bills fandom and as their empire grew, she took a look at the Bills Mafia's own Sith Lord and paved her own way.
"That's such a amazing concept," Hall said. "So we became friends and I kind of like just said, 'You know what? I'm going to do something. I'm going to do like a Bills Leia.' I started and it was like 2020. It began and it's grown ever since. And now I have this wonderful house and I have people, I have a group and I'm with."
Piecing together the uniforms to match the passion, Hall joins a relative Jedi order of fellow superfans who now practice their faith at the Misfit Mansion roughly a mile down the road from Highmark Stadium.
"Guardians of peace and justice throughout the galaxy" as the code goes, these members of the Bills Mafia take things to another level for the tailgate.
"I love catering, I love hosting, we host all the super fans from around the league," she explained.
"Well, my whole goal in life is to make others happy," Hall continued. "And I hope that, like in my journey in this life, I can, like, bring a little bit of happiness to people. So when I communicate and I get in touch with all my fellow Bills fans, it really is an energy that goes through it. And I love the fact that we can get together over one thing."
Regularly mourning the loss of Alderaan, the '91 through '94 Super Bowls, the idea of superfandom extends beyond wins and losses.
"It's bigger than football," she said. "We're all a family. If you're dressing up in costumes to, like, go and support your team, then we love you. People appreciate your effort. They appreciate the time that you put into things. And you know what? That and that transcends the entire 32 teams."
And it doesn't take a lightsaber to be a Jedi or Sith Lord, hair buns to be a princess or a costume to be a superfan.
"Everyone's the 12th man, you know, like, even though you're sitting on your couch at home watching a game, you don't come to the games, you're still cheering for that team," she said. "That energy is felt. And I believe in stuff like that. I believe that the energy that we produce as a fan base, as people that are like literally just getting together to do one thing to cheer on one team, I think that's beautiful and I think that's very powerful. And I whatever you do is going to make an impact."
That energy, widely considered by Lucas-based superfans as The Force.