Kirby Jackson

I was fortunate enough, in another lifetime, to spend quite a bit of time with Marv. Probably spent 20+ hours, just he and I. He is such an interesting and smart guy. Marv is so wise and was always giving life advice. I was in my early to mid 20’s. A couple of things stand out to me: - First, he asked me if I ever saw the Borat movie (this was right after it came out). I told him that I had. He and his wife had just gone the night prior and he said “it was a little crude for my tastes. I was quite uncomfortable when he was running around in that bikini contraption.” 🤣🤣 - Second, he said that he’s met 375,000 people that swear they were at the Comeback Game and stayed the whole time. - Third, he told a story about a guy (and I think he’s told this before) that he ran into one day and said, “remember me?” Marv gave him a puzzled look and the guy said, “a couple of years ago you were going down an escalator in O’Hare and I was going up. I yelled Go Bills to you.” 🤣🤣 - The last one that sticks out is when I asked him who the greatest player he ever saw was. He said, “Gale Sayers” without ANY hesitation. I said, “do you want to think about that?” He said, “No, it’s Gayle Sayers.” I asked him, “what about Bruce?” He said, “he was a damn good football player but Sayers is the best.” (Keep in mind this is probably 20 years ago so Brady was early into his career). Anyways, HBD Marv!!

Exactly. The teams are in a sold out situation. They really don’t care about people offloading some games. Ticketexchange, is a team sponsored, AND REVENUE SHARED, source. Teams literally get a cut of seats transacted on there. Lol, they aren’t staffed to have people scouring the internet in search of someone that sold a pair of seats 4 times in a year. 🤣🤣 In certain situations there may be teams that try to curtail people buying only to resell. That’s so much less common in 2025 than people think. That is more for one-off events like the Masters or a Taylor Swift concert. In those instances they really control who can go. One of the the things that fans probably don’t want to hear is that teams don’t care if access is extremely limited to big games. My cousin was complaining the other day because he wants to go to the Chiefs game but it’s too expensive. I said, “go to the Saints game or Bucs game.” He said, “well I don’t want to go to those as much.” No kidding. That’s why the tickets are more affordable for those games. Teams would probably crack down more on reselling if the pricing made it so that people could never go. They aren’t going to crack down because people can never go to see KC. They would say, “there are plenty of other games to pick from.” This is a bigger deal in other sports (think Yankees are in town, or the Leafs are playing in Buffalo, or the Lakers in MSG). The teams would say, “the benefit of committing to the season is that you ensure yourself the KC game at face value.” That’s literally the sales pitch. The dirty little secret is that they LOVE the fact that people can’t get into the best games for a reasonable price. That’s how they sell packages and season tickets.

Yep. Any weighting of WR isn’t going to help the Bills. They aren’t good at that position comparatively.

That’s probably true. They’ve certainly already cut the deals with the parties that they’ve worked with for a long time. They probably have 8-10 partners that they’re working with and have limited the number of total seats between them. I have a good friend that works for a company that’s the largest reseller on the college side. I’ll try to get some info from him as to how it’s being handled. On the college side they just make giant donations to the athletic department and then buy from there. It’s kind of PSLish

They monitor on ticket exchange as well as other popular sites. It’s really easy (if they care). It is rare that they would care if someone is selling 2 or 4 to a game. That’s why they have those platforms. I think that the reseller issue is a MUCH bigger issue for concerts and other 1 off events. They artificially change the market and limit demand so much.

They would already be season ticket holders. Resellers are more stable during a downswing. Lots of the current base going through are already resellers. Surely they won’t be kicked out. Now, they may limit them some but they won’t revoke their seats. Those people are stable during a downswing. If, and when, the Bills cool off, PSLs and tickets will be dumped. That happens all of the time. The resellers don’t dump in those times. In fact, they may add more. In exchange, you allow them to keep what they have when you’re hot. You can’t just go to them when the tickets have no demand. During the drought, the Bills had thousands and thousands of seats owned by resellers. My assumption is that they still own a lot.

I think that the perception of resellers is a little misunderstood. In the 90’s there were guys outside with signs trying to sling tickets. Over the last 20 years it has changed dramatically. The teams partner with large, national, professional resellers to create another avenue of distribution. The Bills (and pretty much every team), have some partners that own large chunks of season tickets with only the intent of resale. When I worked in sports, we were one of the first teams to embrace it. Roughly 10% of our season tickets were to resellers. I don’t think it’s quite that high here because of the size of an NFL stadium but I think it’s reasonable that 5k or so belong to resellers. Maybe they gave a deal like 100 PSLs for the price of 75? Resellers want to buy low rows, seats on the low end of a price break, close to midfield, etc… Teams will usually allocate some of that prime real estate to them in exchange for offloading the toughest to move inventory (upper corners, etc). It used to be an adversarial relationship 20 years ago or so but that’s changed. It makes WAY more business sense, for both sides, to embrace it (at least to a degree depending on demand). These resellers keep you stable during a down swing in demand and in exchange you reward them when the demand is high. With all of the websites out there now, offering protection, it has changed the game. There are still some antiquated feelings on the secondary market but it’s not going away.

It’s maybe a little unfair. The WRs are at or near the bottom. The TEs are top 10ish and the backs are top 10ish. I’d say closer to 20.

I always thought that they’d have PSLs under $1K because of the messaging. Basically they can say, “everyone can afford it” at that point. You have 10 years to pay off $1K. I would have thought that they would have said, early on, the lowest priced number that would be coming out. You do risk people waiting it out so I get it. It would have been a powerful message though to say, “PSLs will be as low as $500 a piece.” FWIW, there has been VERY little pushback to date on the pricing of the PSLs. There hasn’t been this giant line in the sand that some people predicted when this process started. It really never happens. Nobody “wants” to pay it but the overwhelming majority of people “will” do it. This is always the case but holds especially true with the timing of it for the Bills. This process, in 2014 or 2015, would have been WAY more difficult than it is now. They are so, so, so fortunate to have drafted Josh Allen.

I’ve learned when to push and when to just say, “I love the name Teddy.” 🤣🤣

Thanks man. It looks like Theodore (Teddy), Bennett or Everett (in that order). “Braxton Miller” was shot down pretty quickly. 🤣

Thanks Aug!! I’m a little old for my first 🤦🏻‍♂️. Can’t wait to get him out to Bills games. My brother had a son in May. In the new stadium we have 4 seats in a row. It’ll be so fun for he and I to take the 2 little guys. That’s how we grew up going with our dad. That was those early 90’s teams. These guys will probably miss most of Josh but will still be so fun to instill that passion into them.

Baby Kirby coming December of ‘25 too. No big deal

The question isn’t “worst starting QB” it’s “worst franchise QB.” Those aren’t interchangeable. The question, as @FireChans asked it, is basically, “who is the worst QB that you’d pay franchise money to?” No one is paying AR franchise money. He might be backing up Daniel Jones.

What was the goal? That’s why it’s weird the Steelers were like, “we will take a CB upgrade and a TE upgrade in exchange for our 2nd best player (who is 27).” It’s weird. If you’re pushing your chips in, you deal draft picks. I don’t really understand it for Miami either. They were like, “we will trade our only outside CB and our only TE for a great safety.” It’s weird

Weird trade. Fitzpatrick was the best player traded. Miami gave up 2 good players. This was a Madden trade

There’s a JetBlue Flight that leaves JFK at 8:22 and gets to Buffalo at 10 PM. It’s currently $84!! You can do Ryder Cup, Yanks and be to Buffalo in time to get a good night sleep before hitting the tailgate. Ultimate dudes weekend

It wasn’t that simple though because the transaction was years earlier. I don’t remember all of the specifics but knew it pretty well at the time. I had some contacts that were heavily involved (and that’s an understatement). Basically, a sale wouldn’t have been approved to someone who planned to relocate the team. From what I recall, the $400M wasn’t really an option because of some other language in the deal. The team could not be relocated until 2020 or whatever and the league would not allow an owner to operate in a lame duck situation. That’s why some potential buyers pulled out after getting more details that weren’t public. Ralph, Littman and crew put all of this in place with NY. The reporting back then was filled with 1/2 truths and fear mongering. I posted a bunch on it at the time of the sale and the info that I was getting was from those involved. Lol, back then, things didn’t stay as quiet on the inside.