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Season ticket sales are up past 50,000 which is encouraging.
Before you say we would sell out if we won, leave the obvious comments for someone else.
I could not find the history per season of how many and which Bills home games were not sold out over the past decade.
Last year there were only 2 Black Outs in the whole NFL and the Bills were one of them. The Toronto game was excluded from Black Outs. Russ said that 2 or 3 games of the 7 in Buffalo were "manufactured sell outs" despite the Bills having the 2nd cheapest tickets in the NFL.
Here is an article written before last season predicting which teams would have Black Outs...
5 NFL Teams Most Likely To Be Blacked Out In 2013
Buffalo Bills
Number of blackouts in 2012: Two
...The Bills declined the NFL's offer to lift blackouts at 85% capacity, largely because doing so would require it to pay $90,000 per home game into the league's anti-blackout revenue pool. They needed a local restaurant owner to buy up remaining tickets to prevent a third blackout. Yet, despite all of this, folks in Erie County and New York State are going to shell out $226 million in tax dollars combined to renovate the Bills' Ralph Wilson Stadium. The Bills will kick in a scant $44 million.
This is a team that regularly asks Buffalo to fill its 73,000-seat-stadium with nearly a third of its population -- a tough task in late winter by Lake Erie -- just to keep games on television; the Chicago Bears require just 62,000 of that city's 2.7 million residents to do the same. It's a team that wouldn't commit to a future in the city beyond 94-year-old owner Ralph Wilson's lifespan. It's a team that celebrated its new stadium deal by blacking out the Bills' last home game of the season.
It's a team that's giving Buffalo only eight more years for its investment.
That's $28.3 million a year for a team paying only $800,000 a year in rent on its stadium....
Fear of relocation has caused an uptick in season tickets sales earlier this year. Please don't make a temporary thing. Please buy tickets and sell out all the games this year.
Go Bills!!!
Before you say we would sell out if we won, leave the obvious comments for someone else.
I could not find the history per season of how many and which Bills home games were not sold out over the past decade.
Last year there were only 2 Black Outs in the whole NFL and the Bills were one of them. The Toronto game was excluded from Black Outs. Russ said that 2 or 3 games of the 7 in Buffalo were "manufactured sell outs" despite the Bills having the 2nd cheapest tickets in the NFL.
Here is an article written before last season predicting which teams would have Black Outs...
5 NFL Teams Most Likely To Be Blacked Out In 2013
Buffalo Bills
Number of blackouts in 2012: Two
...The Bills declined the NFL's offer to lift blackouts at 85% capacity, largely because doing so would require it to pay $90,000 per home game into the league's anti-blackout revenue pool. They needed a local restaurant owner to buy up remaining tickets to prevent a third blackout. Yet, despite all of this, folks in Erie County and New York State are going to shell out $226 million in tax dollars combined to renovate the Bills' Ralph Wilson Stadium. The Bills will kick in a scant $44 million.
This is a team that regularly asks Buffalo to fill its 73,000-seat-stadium with nearly a third of its population -- a tough task in late winter by Lake Erie -- just to keep games on television; the Chicago Bears require just 62,000 of that city's 2.7 million residents to do the same. It's a team that wouldn't commit to a future in the city beyond 94-year-old owner Ralph Wilson's lifespan. It's a team that celebrated its new stadium deal by blacking out the Bills' last home game of the season.
It's a team that's giving Buffalo only eight more years for its investment.
That's $28.3 million a year for a team paying only $800,000 a year in rent on its stadium....
Fear of relocation has caused an uptick in season tickets sales earlier this year. Please don't make a temporary thing. Please buy tickets and sell out all the games this year.
Go Bills!!!
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