As far as I can remember, the only two Bills' home playoff games that were ever blacked out were the Comeback Game against the Oilers and the one against Jacksonville.
The Oiler game was somewhat understandable. We'd just gotten punked the week before by that same Oiler team and were heading into the game without Kelly and Biscuit. Add to that the fact we knew that a win would send us to Pittsburgh where we always got our ass handed to us. Plus we were coming off four seasons in which we'd gone to the AFC championship game three times without ever having to play a wildcard game, which the Oiler game was.
The Jacksonville game was also a wildcard game. We'd barely snuck into the playoffs after beating Kansas City in a winner-take-all match in the season's final game, after losing our previous three.
I can tell you with pretty decent certainty that even though both games were blacked out, there were at least 70,000 people in the stands. That's enough to sell out many stadiums, including Jacksonville's. Hell, these days now that the Ralph has a smaller capacity by about 8,000, both of those games probably would have sold out after a corporate sponsor (or Ralph himself) bought the last couple thousand tickets.
We had eight other home playoff games between 1989 and 1996. All sold out, including the divisional game against the Raiders following the 1993 season when it was 30 below.
Bob's right. Jacksonville doesn't have anything to be complacent about. They didn't even come close to filling that place in their biggest game of the season, coming off a huge win at Green Bay, and it's disgraceful.