Buffalo Bills fans have donated $8,000 to the Nashville Children’s Alliance, per reports, after Bills fans lost in the “Final Four” of a Twitter contest because of apparent voter fraud.

FOX NFL Twitter’s March Madness-themed fan contest was a fun idea but here’s the story of how it quickly turned, particularly for Bills fans on Tuesday.

Bills fans weren’t having a lot of fun after the voting differential between their team and the Tennessee Titans fans shifted substantially in the final minutes of the contest on Tuesday.

The Bills had a large lead heading into the final hour of the contest when apparently several Titans fans or bloggers purchased thousands of votes in the final minutes to give the Titans fan base a trip to the championship game against the Cleveland Browns fan base.

It’s all a little silly, isn’t it? Twitter bots seemingly won the vote for Tennessee fans.

Disappointment spewed from Bills fans’ accounts in the immediate aftermath of the result but that anger quickly faded as fans decided to shift the narrative.

That’s when donations started rolling into the Nashville Children’s Alliance - a charitable group that works with children ages 3-17 and their families to cope with severe physical and sexual abuse.

Leading the charge on social media for the donation frenzy was new Bills offensive lineman LaAdrian Waddle’s wife, Shelby Waddle, who implored Bills fans to give and to help show what Bills Mafia is all about.

Waddle signed with the Bills less than three weeks ago and his wife Shelby has already made herself right at home in the Bills Mafia family.

She tweeted Wednesday that she had never felt so much love and interaction from a fan base. Waddle played in New England and Detroit before coming to Buffalo.

This isn’t the first time Bills fans opened their wallets in a big way. When Andy Dalton led the Cincinnati Bengals to a win over the Baltimore Ravens in Week 17 of 2017 to help the Bills earn their first playoff birth in almost two decades, fans showed their appreciation by donating more than $400,000 to his foundation.

Bills coach Sean McDermott recently said that he is often struck with how lucky he is that he landed in Buffalo because of the fit. He said that if you spend any time in Buffalo you quickly realize the kind of energy that’s present in the city and among the people.

“People want to pump palm trees and this and that, and weather and this and that - come to Buffalo where football is important to the people,” McDermott said.