Trader Posted December 7, 2013 Author Share Posted December 7, 2013 It's existed just fine for the last 4 plus decades without the toronto game. your logic is flawed. The Bills attendance is often subsidized our ticket prices are not competitive with the major markets. It takes two Bills seat holders to equal the revenue from one Dallas or Boston fan. Sellouts even in good years are often manufactured. Luxury boxes here sell for a small fraction of what they sell for in major markets. There are no Fortune 500 companies in Buffalo to buy Suites. Ralph bought this franchise for 25k when he passes it will be sold for one billion or more dollars. You might want to calculate the mortgage payment on a billion dollars. There may be 30 to 50 potential bidders for the team. My logic may have flaws but it is better than none at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearwater cadet Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Boston household income is over 70k per year. Dallas is 56k per year. Both areas have many more residents that WNY, I will let you look up Buffalo metro income on your own. There are 20k unsold Miami Tickets. If there is no regionalization there is no NFL in Buffalo Why is this so hard to understand? Does anyone stop to think there 31 other owners in the NFL, and when Ralph dies the new owner is going to need there approval to buy the team, and unless the league feels they can expand the buffalo market and make the league worth more as a whole the bills will be long gone. Do you really think the Jerry Jones of the world care about how important the team is to the community. Thank god for southern ont. and the Toronto series, that's the only thing that gives this team a chance in Buffalo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djp14150 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 People like to point out that in the 90s they didnt always sell out in December, so its a moot point. I disagree. First, internet ticket sales. Second, lower seating capacity. Third, they havent even made the playoffs (or really been competitive post Thanksgiving) since the "Regionalization" efforts to both ROchester and Ontario. If these are going as well as Mr. brandon says, selling out should be no problem. Give us a relevant team. I agree---the stadium capacity has dropped about 9,000 from the early 90s. a game like the houston miracle would have sold out. The games that didnt sell out in December were games against the crappy or unfamiliar(most NFC) opponents. The other problem with the Houston playoff game---Buffalo was expected to make the playoffs and win the division, then have a week off. then the first game of the playoffs was the weekend between Christmas and New years---many regular ticket purchasers couldnt do it because they already had travel plans of them traveling out or family coming in thus couldnt do the game. If the schedule was the same as today with the wild card game the weekend after new yrs day then Buffalo sells the game out. now a game at home in between those two weekends can still sell out because its a known and planned for event. Some people would like to go to the game and plan on going to it but only if it mattered....if they were out of it then they wouldnt go, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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