Bills Quarterback Josh Allen’s Other Pregame Ritual That Doesn’t Involve Vomiting

Josh Allen is like many other NFL players as he has adopted a game-day ritual. However, something the Buffalo Bills signal caller does pregame can be categorized as strange, unusual, and even a little gross.

During the 2025 regular season, in a game against the New England Patriots, TV cameras caught Allen vomiting on the sideline. The thing is, he wasn’t sick at the time. He was actually performing his game-day ritual.

When asked about that later, the quarterback explained it’s something that happens when he “doesn’t get it out” before kickoff.

Allen told ESPN that his puking ritual goes back to his second year in the league, and it’s something that he’s done before almost every game since. He explained that after his pregame warmup, he goes to the bathroom as soon as he gets to the locker room and “it happens 20 seconds later.”

That bizarre ritual is not the only thing Allen does before every game. He also always listens to slow, old-school music (by Frank Sinatra, Elvis, and Sammy Davis Jr.) on his headphones before games. He adopted that as part of his pregame routine to help him relax and keep his heart rate down prior to taking the field.

Allen told People that Sinatra’s classic tune “That’s Life” is one song “That gets me ready to go.”