Chilly Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Why build a stadium with less seats, so the team can make less money? 864472[/snapback] I think that there is something to be said for building a stadium with less seats and insuring a sellout for every game. Increased media attention in the local area leads to increased merchandise sales/other factors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramius Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 "Opening the windows will make it twenty degrees cooler in the stadium than it is outside without air conditioning" I'm no friggin physicist but that is a direct violation of the laws of thermodynamics. On top of that have you ever been to central Texas in August? I'm thinking of going next year. Either there or the sun. 864393[/snapback] You need to regress the temperature of the outside and inside to the mean. It'll all make sense then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverNRed Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Pretty much every time I see sketches of a new baseball stadium I think about how much I'd like to go there. Every time I see sketches of a new football stadium I can't help but think it looks like an airport or something. I'd like the Bills to get a nice new stadium someday but these stadiums really don't impress me all that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heitz Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Damn, that is an amazing building... The giant score boards will be crazy. And how about the club seats where the players enter? You can love the nostalgia of the Ralph all you like, but a new modern stadium in Buffalo would be sooooo sweet. Hopefully some 25 year old kid will come up with the next YouTube, sell it for a billion and buy the Bills! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganesh Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Damn, that is an amazing building... The giant score boards will be crazy. And how about the club seats where the players enter? You can love the nostalgia of the Ralph all you like, but a new modern stadium in Buffalo would be sooooo sweet. Hopefully some 25 year old kid will come up with the next YouTube, sell it for a billion and buy the Bills! 864583[/snapback] And hopefully that company that invents the next YouTube is in Buffalo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pBills Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 If the Bills were ever to build a stadium downtown or where ever, it should only hold 60,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 but they will only have 100 more toilets...i see a problem here You misread that... There's actually 111 *LESS* toilets than the current stadium (according to the PDF). However there's 180 less suites (!), and since each suite has a toilet, there's 69 more toilets available for the general populace. Still doesn't seem like enough though. CW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rastabillz Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 So the county taxpayers have to pony up $300 million, and that is if the price does not go up. What will be their "reward"? Higher seat licences. Sound like bondoogle to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalobillsfootball Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 So the county taxpayers have to pony up $300 million, and that is if the price does not go up. What will be their "reward"? Higher seat licences. Sound like bondoogle to me. 864720[/snapback] A new Bills stadium will be funded by the state, period. And yes, don't worry folks, the Bills will stay in Buffalo, forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDawkinstein Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 cant wait for those midfield jumbotrons to come crashing down like ours did... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 And we BFLO fans will help pay the bill??? If this was gov't, we'd all be grabbing the pitchforks... Yet, "we" "gladly" help! Gotta keep the Bills in BFLO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockpile Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 And we BFLO fans will help pay the bill??? If this was gov't, we'd all be grabbing the pitchforks... Yet, "we" "gladly" help! Gotta keep the Bills in BFLO! 864765[/snapback] I look at it this way, they ARE GOING TO piss away my tax dollars. See Rochester and the Fast Ferry. Since they will spend it anyway, spend it on something that matters to me. Do you think taxes will be going down anytime soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I look at it this way, they ARE GOING TO piss away my tax dollars. See Rochester and the Fast Ferry. Since they will spend it anyway, spend it on something that matters to me. Do you think taxes will be going down anytime soon? 865014[/snapback] No disrespect Rock... Yet, If I was a pilot or worker for the "fast ferry"... I might make your same argument... Something always matters to somebody... Just playing 's advocate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cripes Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 About five or six years ago when Jones tried to get public funding for "Jerryland," he tried to get the money out of Irving. He pushed behind the scenes to get Irving to drop out of the Dallas rapid transit system to pay for it. You want the Cowboys -- kill bus service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockpile Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 None taken, EII! The Ferry was a Lemming from Day One, is still idle in port, and chewing up thousands of dollars of OUR money every week, as they continue the search for some other idiot, I mean potential buyer to take it away. I would have loved it if the Ferry was the start of a renewed Lake Ontario waterfront. They are still sorting through the payola on this one. At least a 60,000 seat stadium would seat 60,000 butts in WNY at least eight times a year. Even the Ralph has done that, even if there are only four home sellouts this year. Apples and oranges. No disrespect Rock... Yet, If I was a pilot or worker for the "fast ferry"... I might make your same argument... Something always matters to somebody... Just playing 's advocate. 865069[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tomcat Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 Interactive Model......WOW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 None taken, EII! The Ferry was a Lemming from Day One, is still idle in port, and chewing up thousands of dollars of OUR money every week, as they continue the search for some other idiot, I mean potential buyer to take it away. I would have loved it if the Ferry was the start of a renewed Lake Ontario waterfront. They are still sorting through the payola on this one. At least a 60,000 seat stadium would seat 60,000 butts in WNY at least eight times a year. Even the Ralph has done that, even if there are only four home sellouts this year. Apples and oranges. 865244[/snapback] I see your point! 60k butts is better than a boat dead in the water... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truth on hold Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 it's hard to imagine but they're so attached to that stupid hole in the roof that their new multi-billion dollar stadium will have one too! http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AsRh...ov=ap&type=lgns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoachChuckDickerson Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 SEARCHY it's hard to imagine but they're so attached to that stupid hole in the roof that their new multi-billion dollar stadium will have one too! http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AsRh...ov=ap&type=lgns 865590[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCBoston Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 Why build a stadium with less seats, so the team can make less money? 864472[/snapback] Because with fewer seats, he can put in more luxury boxes, which have a bigger profit margin. Haven't you been paying attention for the last ten years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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