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DetDannyWilliams
08-27-2015, 04:32 PM
this isn't the first time a debate over a new stadium has been the talk of WNY. And while the Bills eventually did move to Orchard Park and build a new stadium there, that wasn't the only option considered.
While cleaning out a storage area at the Erie County Legislature, a group of staff members discovered a set of blueprints for a domed stadium to be built in the county. The blueprints are dated January 30, 1970, and call for the stadium to be built on Pleasant View Drive in Lancaster.

http://www.wgrz.com/story/sports/nfl/bills/2015/01/20/buffalo-erie-county-stadium-blueprints/22061735/
sukie
08-28-2015, 11:31 AM
Awesome. I wish those that found it would have taken a shot of the blueprint of the ground level elevation. Instead we see restrooms.

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Awesome. I wish those that found it would have taken a shot of the blueprint of the ground level elevation. Instead we see restrooms.
Ngxtreme13
08-28-2015, 12:32 PM
Super weird. I lived on Pleasant View Drive for 25 years and it would have been such a nice spot. Happy with the way things turned out though......for now.
WagonCircler
08-28-2015, 02:03 PM
Domes suck.
Night Train
08-28-2015, 04:43 PM
Being older, a little perspective.

It was a baseball/football multi-purpose stadium. Buffalo was hot for MLB at the time and the National League was expanding. It wasn't that large in seating capacity ( talk was around 60,000 ) and Wilson hated the idea, threatening a move to Seattle unless the idea was killed. He wanted a larger outdoor stadium that was football only.

Wilson got his way and the baseball team went to Montreal instead. Many locals were very pissed at Ralph for killing the MLB dream.

Class dismissed.
WagonCircler
08-29-2015, 10:04 AM
Being older, a little perspective.

It was a baseball/football multi-purpose stadium. Buffalo was hot for MLB at the time and the National League was expanding. It wasn't that large in seating capacity ( talk was around 60,000 ) and Wilson hated the idea, threatening a move to Seattle unless the idea was killed. He wanted a larger outdoor stadium that was football only.

Wilson got his way and the baseball team went to Montreal instead. Many locals were very pissed at Ralph for killing the MLB dream.

Class dismissed.

There was a lot more to it than that. It involved political payoffs (in cash) that were balked at.