BADOLBILZ

Right........but as @PromoTheRobot pointed out you could buy those tickets right from the ticket office. That would be a much more complicated "late decision" option in September/Ocotober......they can sell out just with local fans at that time of year they don't need people driving up from Virginia to fill the seats....so it would be more expensive and have to get thru a secondary market etc.. Once the calendar turns to November fans simply don't want to go sit out in that kind of weather. It's not anymore complicated than that.

I think the Stromboli is all you can eat for $8.99 in the red tent

Shula tried to put together a "super team" of free agents and it blew up in his face and they were a huge underachieving team. That made beating them all the more enjoyable. One of those free agents was TE Eric Green, who catches a pass on that first series. He was maybe the most gifted TE in football in the early 90's........a beast. His son is also a freak of nature like that but he chose baseball and will likely be the second or third overall pick in the MLB draft this June.

Rex scheme was predicated on the extra violence they were able to scheme up. Goodell basically had Rex and Dick LeBeau in his scope when he made it practically illegal to hit QB's and WR's. Without all the late hits and cheap shots Rex lost a few mph off his fastball. The league had to do it..........there were very few even "good" QB's then.......and guys like Rodgers and Big Ben were supposed to be the new faces of the league and they were getting concussed on a regular basis.

Yeah if these kids are playing on TV for what amounts to huge money for "their universities"...........they should be getting paid like professionals. The football factories don't love the NIL stuff because they've had virtual slave labor forever..........but it actually allows them to keep stealing for the time being. How people get their education will change drastically over the next few decades...........college sports will have to admit they are a pro sport and share the wealth eventually.

Obada is a terrible run defender no matter where he plays.........we've found out exactly why he was available so cheap despite some decent pass rush numbers in Carolina. But he can rush the passer some. Ankou has been turrible.

After they won a Super Bowl with Favre things changed greatly in Green Bay. They were regularly 10K below capacity on average during the 80's when they were in the equivalent of the Bills 2000's "drought era"...........and that was when their capacity was just 60K. If the Bills win a SB that will help make them an iconic franchise and greatly help regionalize them............people love to associate themselves with winners.

What are you talking about? The stadium wasn't even full this past Sunday against the Falcons.

Yeah.......this was a big problem the week before........as I said then, when Butler and Ankou were on the field the pocket was a "passer's paradise". Was hoping Lotulelei would return and provide some of that early season pass rush but oh-hell-no. They really can't afford to have Oliver and Phillips off the field for 35% of the snaps or more unless Lotulelei returns to his briefly impactful early season form and then maybe they can afford to put Obada in for some snaps next to him.

One of the first rules of the lot 1 days was to make sure you didn't have to drop a deuce at the tailgate...........you p!ssed in the 5 gallon bucket alongside the assigned vehicle..........so, unless you were a female, if you were seen entering the potty it was clear why you were doing it and you were then subject to being zip-tied inside. Very simple but effective procedure. You can blow thru the zip tie but the force usually lead to an embarrassing cartwheel on the pavement. Or occasionally the potty might get rocked from side to side with you in it. (It took a the local providers quite a few years to catch on that they need to cluster the potties in tight formation to prevent tip overs) Basically the 3 days prior to the game was a cleanse period to avoid such indignities. Also, occasionally the potties would get used to block certain vehicles in. Like say if you were a deserving party who locked their keys into their luxury sedan and left it and called a tow truck company to come collect it........the tow operator might find it encircled with potties.

We will keep most of the tickets we actually use every week. So about half of them. Very similar situation in all the highest demand season ticket areas. Tons of people with extra tickets who could still afford the new ones but will have a hard time justifying carrying extra seats when that total starts looking like the cost of their annual dues/food minimum for the golf course they live on seasonally in Florida etc..

Is it really a threat when they just DON'T attend? Never have and never will. Get out of your shell and open your eyes. And each generation is less likely to pay to sit out in that weather than the one prior. As far as the "$500K" to enclose the stadium..........it's more like $250M-$300M there Mr. "economicAL sense". Which will be the cost of a 3 year contract for a good QB in 2030.

The extra tickets aren't an investment.........getting season tickets next to each other in the middle of the field is difficult so we buy them in the event we EVER need to add full time ST holders to our groups. In September and October the demand for those tickets at face value is several times over what we have available.....regardless of the quality of the team. In November, December and January regular season we can only give them away.........and that's only if they are winning. The reality is very clear..........season ticket sales are inflated by the tickets being the cheapest or nearly-so in the league(due mainly to paid-off facilities).........and ACTUAL attendance is VERY climate driven.

Game attendance falls off but the level of fandom of those that show up also gets VERY watered down. Early in the season the fans scream over me at Daboll for his play calls...........late in the season fans also scream at Daboll when the Bills give up a big play on defense. I wish I was joking about that but I'm not. A significant portion of the crowd are just a bunch of casual fans/tourists on free passes late in the season..........always gets like that when the weather gets bad.

By sitting players for the finale they might be risking a shot at a home AFC title game..............but I think EVERYONE would rather play Tennessee in Nashville in the divisional round rather than KC. I'm not feeling too bad about the Bills as a #4 seed. Sets up a potentially amazing revenge tour playoff lineup for long time Bills fans.

Yes that little bonus is actually irrelevant IMO..........his deal was going to be re-worked this offseason either way. They may want/need $40M of cap space to work with this offseason..........they have about $8-$10M to start with from the bump in the cap.........then can create about $20M-$25M thru sensible/likely cuts..........but they only have so many ways to create cap room elsewhere and that $18M cap hit is probably the easiest one to work on and Diggs is the most justifiable player to give extra guaranteed dollars.

While that makes total sense........that's the kind of thinking that keeps baseball stuck in 1960. One of the nice things about the NFL(and the NBA too, actually) is that individual records/numbers aren't so "hallowed"............it helps the league be able to pivot much easier to always be making itself more entertaining.

Are you dense? We don't resell our tickets online so they aren't being transferred........so they would not know this information. And no........they have no idea whatsoever who sits in our seats. I could give you more specific examples to prove that but let's just say the banned ***** tossers could walk in with some of our ST cards for all they know. As far as they know we have 30 full time ST holders when it's more like 15 people who pay for all of the tickets and actually attend every game. Those 15 tickets will be all that's left if they triple in cost. Now there is plenty of money in Bills fandom to fill 60K considerably more expensive seats........Joe-sixpack doesn't think so but there is..........the key is making it worthwhile for them to show up. The outdoor environment in Nov/Dec/Jan closes the market off to people with means who might bring their wives and kids or people who might fly in from their seasonal homes or just ex-pats with means. The kind of people who aren't put out by the cost.

Well no sh*t they have a plan. They have had a lot of plans since they first bought a Buffalo sports team........some have worked.......some have failed miserably. What I said is they need a NEW plan for filling those seats at a more expensive venue........because their season ticket numbers are highly inflated because the relatively cheap price has created the appearance of more human demand than there is.

As I've said before........right now the tickets are priced right enough that our large group of about 6-7 different accounts owns many extra season tickets........about double what we actually use.........and that's fairly common practice among locally based long-time ST holders. When the cost triples(with seat licensing)...........for the most part, that ends. So they need a new plan for the next venue.

It's that simple. It was this way in the 90's when they were winning as well...........and that was WITH blackouts in place to force people to attend if they wanted to see it. Those tickets you see online only represent a fraction of the available ones too..........most ST holders just give them away or eat em' if they aren't going or don't have a familiar buyer. The way it works out........the extra season tickets we own get sold in September and October and after that if the weather is inclement it is all give-aways and if we didn't have a great party and food we couldn't even give them away.

Yeah this wasn't terribly uncommon parenting technique in the 70's and 80's.

This is actually pretty common with kids if their first game was in the cold...........the coldest I can remember my feet ever being was the first Bills game I went to with my father in 1981.........friends have similar stories. As WNY kids we were used to being out in the snow and cold all day.........but we were running around when we were doing that. Sitting idly in the cold is not natural for kids and they then tend to tense up and try to be still and that leads to poor circulation and cold extremities. Nowadays we always have boxes of packs of hand and foot warmers at our tailgate so it's a non-issue. They are an absolute must for the feet late in the season.

Ok, Marv. You know he also said "failing to prepare is preparing to fail". You are just a fan..........not part of the team............not working for the Associated Press...........you aren't impacting anything either way by speculating.........if you are just OCD about it and speculation causes you anxiety then a message board certainly isn't the place to be. Anytime there is a potential for losing an important assistant coach it's discussion worthy on TSW...........especially if it would mean getting two 3rd round compensatory picks out of the deal.