Pricing Out the Bills Mafia

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1. So just so I have this right:

   Stadiums are paid for by taxes. Taxes are paid for by citizens. So citizens foot the bill for new stadiums.

   Then, PSL’s are large fees meant to “shoulder the burden” of the cost of a new stadium. PSL’s are paid for by citizens, who are already paying taxes for the new stadium.

   PSL’s do NOT cover the cost of a season ticket, they essentially “save your spot” in line to spend even more money on another ticket.

   Couple this with the facts that we will not have a dome and Ron Raccuia utterly botched negotiations with NYS, is it safe to say that this stadium project is FUBAR? Is it safe to say Buffalonians are getting screwed and there’s very little risk for the rich elites involves on this project?

2. Guys we were never going to have Highmark and it’s prices forever. Success brings a price. And here we are. Enjoy that wonderful stadium and its experience for the two years we have left because everything will change after, especially if we win the big one.

3. Fuck the Pegulas

4. Man I’m so tired of hearing people whine about this…

   There were two options.

   A. The option we got where taxpayers foot the bill and PSLs are introduced (like most other stadiums have including 20 other NFL teams).

   B. The team potentially moves like we have been worried about multiple times to a city that would foot the bill.

   Yeah, it’s bullshit that the billionaires get the benefit and we foot the bill. But is this new to you? You would all be even more pissed if they moved the team.

5. Terry sure needed a break

6. Hot take but the current stadium is just fine

7. I’m keeping my pitchfork locked up, for now. Every single thing that comes about with the catastrophic PSL prices are either the most premier club seats in the stadium or hearsay.

   I’ll get angry with the PSL prices when I have something more concrete to go by. Unconfirmed prices are exactly that; unconfirmed.

8. Serious question: How far away are we from having a virtual stadium experience with something like those googles Apple makes?

9. Sometimes I wonder if the majority of people just straight up have zero clue about how things work? Pegula grew up in a low-mid class family. He wasn’t just born “an Elite” or rich… starting from the same or worse spot than most of us, he built his own fortune by working and making smart business decisions. To the point where he could afford to purchase the Bills…I know it is hard for a lot of fans to wrap there heads around, but the Buffalo Bills are a Business. He bought the franchise, he kept the franchise in buffalo… even though the franchise was in prime position to be moved, to a bigger more valuable market. Instead he kept them here, and not only that but he’s invested non stop into building a strong successful franchise. Has spent 2Billion in real cash on the roster since buying the franchise, 5th most in the NFL over that time. Over the past 4 years? He’s spent the MOST real cash on this roster than any other owner in the NFL, while also footing the bill to expand and modernize the training & practice facility which is ranked as one of the best in the NFL, to the point where it actually has added to the attraction of coming to the bills for free agents. But again, pegula isn’t where he is by being a bad business man.. He’s invested fully into this franchise, building it to an elite level team, and in turn maximizing his investment… but the cost of that for fans is the inevitability of maximizing his return on his investment. It comes with winning. Living in Boston the past 20 years it has been cheaper for me to fly round trip to buffalo, and buy tickets 20 rows from the field than it has to buy the farthest seat from the field and pay for parking at Gillette stadium… many don’t actually understand this though. You can’t have it both ways

10. What a fucking garbage website! Worst ad clutter I’ve ever seen!

11. Bruh, bills Mafia has been priced out pretty much the entire post-drought era. Yeah we were total dogshit but tickets used to be like 4/$100 and less lol. Now you have ppl trying to sell off their top row upper deck tix for $100-150 in December. Insane.

    Maybe this’ll bounce out some sth “fans” that have like 4-5 sets of tickets. A sth I was talking to at the pgh game was treating his psl like a house, “it’ll only go up in value!”.

12. I get the sense I will not be making my yearly trips to buffalo once the stadium opens. Between tix and the price gouging the hotels do on game days. I’m tv bound from here on out

13. I mean, this is simply a cash grab. The one redeeming thing is that the PSLs do have some value and it’s a one time payment. And if demand exceeds supply, they will gain value. However, it’s a giant investment. And when Josh Allen retires and the Bills have to rebuild, they will be worth diddly.

    I think the PSLs will drop in price and they will refund some back to the people who bought early because they simply will not sellout the season ticket PSLs at the rates they are looking for.

14. I hate that billionaires don’t foot the bill but I somewhat understand why the Pegulas don’t want to pay for everything. I wouldn’t build my house on property that I don’t own. They don’t own the stadium, the state does. They are just leasing it.

    Edit: I do agree that overall fans are getting priced out of stadiums.

15. The outrage is a bit over the top. People commenting here like they’re entitled to club seats in a brand new stadium.