CodeMonkey

I wish someone would pay me millions of dollars to do anything, much less play a game.

I think it's funny when Bills fans make fun of another team for something that it does. The Texans sucked last year, but the year before they were 12-4, made it to the playoffs and won a wildcard game. When was the last time the Bills even hit .500 and could consider the playoffs in December? People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Good luck Fitz!

If they don't bring in any competition the Bills are by default absolutely handing the job to Manuel. Thad Lewis is no NFL starter by any stretch. If Marrone is 100% sure that Manuel is the guy then by all means hand him the job. But if he is not they sure better bring someone in either via the draft or free agency who can challenge for the job.

When you suck as long as the Bills have there needs to be a marketing hook to get any national attention from non Bills fans. T.O. was such a hook and was the reason he was signed. The Bills have done nothing even close to being worthy of any national attention so far at least.

I don't disagree with you at all. Fans obviously want their team to win. But the original comment was that the Bills owed fans wins/playoffs.

Good luck with that.

So for a 16 game regular season, that's 10 million dollars per team per game in player salaries. No wonder Roger is feeling the pressure to create revenue streams outside the US. When will the insanity end.

They have to make up for the Toronto money they won't be getting this year somehow. yup. Just so long as the early season games sell out with the price increase that is. And the overall price increase plus the extra game this year makes the cheap t-shirt give away for the non-refundable deposit more Brandon marketing brilliance.

Get in line. But come on guys. Of course he is open to returning to the Bills just like he is open to not returning to the Bills. What's the point in trying to psychoanalyze every offhand comment by a teammate.

I don't think the ticket price has much to do with low attendance at December games.

Mainly the insane TV contract money they get and Mr. Wilson carrying no debt. But I suspect new ownership that is carrying significant debt would not be able to keep prices that low.

Man it is hard to believe any NFL team has a $25 ticket anymore

I don't fear it. It is just something that we enjoy as a family, watching the game without commercials while we eat dinner. But buying tickets for everyone then spending the entire day there isn't practical for us. Yup it is what it is until someone in government grows a pair and stops it

I live in Rochester so when games do not sell out I do get blacked out. The only thing I complain about is that I disagree with the NFL being able to dictate games being blacked out when they get financial assistance and special treatment (monopoly) from government. If they weren't on the take and decided to blackout games for whatever reason I'd be fine with that as it is their business and can conduct it as they see fit. But your ratings comment makes much more sense when you think of people outside of WNY.

Ratings don't enter into is as the NFL negotiates as a whole for the TV contract. If the game sells out it will be on TV at least locally.

So 12% or so increase then.

What has it generally been for, 8 games? So roughly a 25% increase more than likely.

I don't like going to games for reasons I won't get into again. So for my purely selfish reasons I like the Toronto games as it guarantees at least one home December game will be televised for me locally. From a Bills business perspective the game makes sense. They get a guaranteed December sellout plus get to keep season ticket prices lower which in theory anyway, means more sales. The only negatives are fans who like to go to games at the Ralph, can't, and it gives up home field advantage which would mean a lot if the Bills were in the hunt for a playoff spot in December. So i agree with you my robotic friend, anyone who has complained about the Toronto series should reward the Bills for this decision. Remember too that this is only a postponement, it could easily return the following season.

I couldn't possibly disagree more. You pay to see games, and for the privilege of having a local team, not for wins. The team owes you nothing more than putting on a game. If you do not like the quality of the product on the field, you have plenty of options to voice your displeasure including stopping financial support if you like. But the Buffalo Bills do not owe it's fans any more than they currently provide.

Yeah it was way better when only the owners were allowed to be greedy scumbags,

Many (not saying PTR does or not, I do not know) are of the opinion that to question or complain or worse still, fail to financially support the franchise will cause the Bills to relocate out of Buffalo. If you assume that mindset then you can see why some people can't accept complaints from anyone, be it after 14 years of suck or 114.

Along those same lines ... Once when my daughter was very young she came in and sat next to me while I was watching the super bowl. She asked which team was the Bills. I told her neither because the Bills weren't in the super bowl that year. She stared at me for a good 30 seconds with a puzzled look on her face and said "If the Bills aren't playing then why do they bother putting it on TV?". I gave her the proud papa hug

My kids simply expect the Bills to suck every year because that's all they have ever known. That's not all bad as they are never disappointed at the end of a season. However they are old enough to remember the Sabres not sucking so they do expect more from the Sabres than they do the Bills.

Two out of three of my now teenager kids weren't yet born.

Finally a thread worth reading this off season, well done! Now what you need to do is do the same analysis for college QB's and join the Bills analytics team!