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    Batavia possible stadium site?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    Can't speak for other stadiums, but Yankee Stadium is in the hood and hasn't revitalized that area at all. Walk a block from the stadium in any direction and you're in a poor neighborhood. Dumping a significant amount of money in a **** area is not guaranteed to do ANYTHING. Revitalization takes willing developers, the proper landscape and community support. Like was said before, how are people going to get on & off the island for games? Traffic will be an absolute nightmare.

     

    And Canadians are 40% of the fan base? That's absolute horse ****. If they were, the Toronto series would have had more Bills fans than our average away games. With the exact same fan base as they have now, theoretically the team can make more money by making themselves more accessible to the fans they already have in Rochester and Syracuse. You don't have to convert people here, they'll come to games. Casual fans from markets East of Buffalo all of a sudden have a much smaller barrier between themselves and game day. The Rochester market is huge for the Bills, practices are jam packed at St. John Fisher. Development around a Batavia stadium is endless because there's nothing here! Nothing to knock down, nothing to repurpose. Built to suit, whatever investors want.

     

    NF has very little argument in the way of being a viable stadium location.

    Batavia possible stadium site?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    And where do you think that leaves the season ticket holders who currently have the team in their backyard? How many of them do you lose by telling them they now have to drive 40+ minutes to get to the game?

     

    You have to weigh that against how many you gain opening up a larger market.

    Batavia possible stadium site?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    As a Batavian, there's enough pros to at least keep us in the conversation. Do I think it's far fetched? Very, but think about it.

    • There's a ton of land here, right off the thruway, ripe for development. Stadium, convention center, retail; it's a blank canvas.
    • A bunch of hotels are right off our thruway exit.
    • Accommodating fans to the East is the way to best improve numbers. Batavia gets the team closer to Rochester and Syracuse - two markets with a ton of Bills fans - while still being close to Buffalo. We had season tickets while I lived in Rochester, and that's a drive I can't see most fair-weather fans making.
    • Traffic patterns can be planned and developed for. Again, we're a blank canvas here.

    Biggest thing I think is reaching East instead of pushing the team further West or North. We're already fans out this way, make it easier for us to get involved. Canada (for the most part) doesn't give a **** about the Bills. Stop trying to create a non-existent Canadian market when you already have a large one in upstate NY.

     

    I do think a waterfront stadium could be beautiful and have a huge impact as a 'destination'..but you're adding drive-time for out-of-towners and NF is a shithole. What's the traffic going to be like with 65k people arriving/leaving the waterfront? or in and out of NF?

     

    Also, they'll stick out the lease in Erie County and develop here until it's over. I'd have season tickets again in a heartbeat if they were in my backyard.

    We melt like ice

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    Christ guys, this team is one blown incompletion call away from being undefeated. Of course there's things to work on. They are a young team stacked with nobodies who are learning how to win on the fly. No, they don't know how to play with a lead yet. They were terrible last year. Don't expect them to be able to put teams away like the NFL elite.

     

    This team is outperforming anyone's expectations for a team that had the 3rd overall pick. They'll keep working on things. It's absolutely ludicrous to say that because they won Gailey and the coaching staff are just going to ignore the faults on this team.

     

    Getting McGee and or Williams back will be a big boost to an obviously outmatched secondary.

    Bills sign 19 UDFA's

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    No offensive tackles?

     

    OT Isaiah Thompson – 6’4” 300 – Houston

    A 2nd-Team All-Conference USA performer, Thompson impressed in just one season as an offensive lineman after spending the previous three on the Cougars defensive line. Though he lacks experience he has an aggressive mentality and his improvement throughout the year demonstrates some upside at the guard position.

    Bills sign 19 UDFA's

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    TE Zach Pianalto – 6’4” 250 – North Carolina

    Teammate of Bills 4th and 5th-round picks Da’Norris Searcy and Johnny White. Senior season cut short by a fractured fibula. At the time of the injury he was second in the nation in tight end receptions. Has great hands and has become stronger in the run game. Finished his career with 94 receptions for 918 yards and three touchdowns. Was an NFL Combine invite and ran a 4.78 40-time with 22 reps on the bench.

     

    The only one on the list that really stuck out to me. Maybe a diamond in the rough?

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