{"id":637115,"date":"2026-03-03T18:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/637115\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:27:14","slug":"toronto-raptors-to-host-bills-night-as-buffalo-bills-continue-push-into-southern-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/637115\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors to host \u2018Bills Night\u2019 as Buffalo Bills continue push into Southern Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The Bills\u2019 \u201cpush into Southern Ontario will take another step\u201d Tuesday night as the Raptors will host a \u201cBills Night\u201d for their game against the Knicks at Scotiabank Arena, according to Jay Skurski of the BUFFALO NEWS. As part of the festivities, Basketball HOFers and Bills minority owners Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady \u201cwill be heavily involved.\u201d They will \u201chost a pregame fireside chat with fans, then during the game will be courtside, hyping up the home crowd.\u201d Some members of \u201cBills Mafia\u201d are also \u201cexpected at the game &#8212; and beforehand, to introduce Buffalo\u2019s tailgate culture to Toronto.\u201d Each fan in attendance will receive a \u201cBills Night\u201d black T-shirt, while the night will feature \u201cseveral Bills-related game-presentation elements.\u201d Bills Chief Strategy Officer Kate Hussmann said that since September, the Bills have partnered with Maple Leaf Sports &amp; Entertainment on a \u201cnumber of different events, including youth football camps that have reached about 1,500 participants.\u201d Hussmann said, \u201cWe\u2019re very aligned with MLSE on this.\u201d Skurski noted Real Sports Bar &amp; Grill in Toronto hosted watch parties for five regular-season Bills games and both of the team\u2019s playoff games, with those watch parties having \u201cmore than 1,500 fans in attendance.\u201d Hussmann said that fans from Southern Ontario \u201cmake up about 10% of the Bills\u2019 season-ticket base\u201d entering the first season in the New Highmark Stadium. Skurski noted perhaps \u201cmost importantly, about 18% of the deposits made for new season tickets have come from Southern Ontario\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/buffalonews.com\/sports\/professional\/nfl\/bills\/article_b9c42bb1-bf91-4a0b-b55b-88d52358f9cb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BUFFALO NEWS, 3\/2<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bills\u2019 \u201cpush into Southern Ontario will take another step\u201d Tuesday night as the Raptors will host a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,6,9,681,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-637115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-raptors","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-raptors","14":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116166659104372165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}