Mark Gage has added a “Go Bills” banner to the iconic Frewsburg smiling sun as the team is set to play in the AFC Championship Game Sunday. Gage, a Frewsburg native, is a lifelong Bills fan. P-J photo by Dennis Phillips

Plenty of Buffalo Bills fans are enjoying the latest addition to Frewsburg’s iconic smiling sun, possibly even the late creator of the hamlet’s positive symbol.

Earlier this week, Mark Gage, owner of 141 W. Main St., Frewsburg, where the wide-eyed and large, toothy grin sun has made its home on the side of a barn since the 1980s, said he added the “Go Bills” banner that Magnum Graf-X created earlier this week as the team is set to play in the AFC Championship Game Sunday. Gage, who is a Frewsburg native and lifelong Bills fan, said his late father, Martin Gage, would have enjoyed placing the Go Bills banner next to the sun he created.

“My father was a huge Bills fan. With that banner tacked up there, my dad would be smiling down if he knew that was up there,” Gage said.

Gage said he purchased the family’s 100 acre farm in 2015, a year before his father died in 2016. Gage said he has kept his father’s dying wish of keeping the Frewsburg barn sun fresh and up-to-date.

“That was something he was concerned about. He wanted me to keep that alive,” Gage said.

The Frewsburg barn sun is even out at night as Gage has a spotlight illuminating the picturesque scene so travelers can still see the “Have A Happy Day” message at night.

“It really looks nice,” Gage said about illuminating the sun at night.

Gage believes the Bills are going to pull off the upset of the favored Kansas City Chiefs Sunday to make it to their fifth Super Bowl and first since the 1993 season.

“I’ve always been a Bills fan, right through the Super Bowl years and going back to the days of Joe Ferguson (former Bills quarterback from 1973-1984) and all that,” he said.

As far as the Bills hoisting the Lombardi Trophy in February, Gage said he wants that to be the case.

“Well I sure hope so,” he said. “I don’t want to watch them lose five (Super Bowls).”

Whether the Bills win it all or not, Gage said he will continue to update the Frewsburg barn sun like he did last spring when he added a mask to the sun’s mouth because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“That happy face will always be changing. We try to keep it up-to-date It’s kind of a fun thing,” he said. “It’s a happy thing, and we need happy these days.”