WotAGuy

Gunner - I read a lot of threads where people say “I heard…”. Just curious if you have a source (not that you need to name it), or would it be more accurate to say “I read”? Just trying to separate the wheat from the chaff in these threads.

It took you long enough! 🤣🤣

If you can find a copy, read “OJ Education of a Rich Rookie”. A book OJ and a co-author wrote about his rookie season. Interesting times and racial biases back then. Changing of the guard from the championship-era Bills to the terrible teams of the early 70s. Hard to believe the NFL and society have changed that much in my lifetime. Black QBs were barely being accepted. I think it was the 1973 season we were driving to a game on the Youngmann and who do we pass but OJ driving his car to the game. He smiled and waved at me and this 14-year old was ecstatic. Prayers to Nicole and Mr. Goldman and their families.

The moment of silence will simply be a chorus of boos. Never happen.

Ugh, yeah I do remember someone saying the financing was available after the down payment. Not to mention, in most cases, people will be buying a minimum of two seats.

It beats trading Josh Allen, I’ll say that for ya.

You’re making a convincing argument that even average earners can afford the new $15,000 PSLs. A 10-year loan at 10% interest is about $200/month.

I’m grateful for the STH that sell their tickets. It makes it much easier to go to the occasional game. Back in the day, it was a scramble to get individual game tickets as soon as they went on sale. And it’s not just the STHs that will be paying the PSL; anyone buying a resale ticket is going to be paying a lot more to account for the PSL and increased game ticket cost. The owners are going to keep pushing the envelope as long as there’s someone buying what they are selling. Corporations may be able to write off the expense of the suites/clubs. The rest of us will be paying more and more and slowly dropping out as the cost becomes prohibitive or we just tire of bending over. Like everything in life, the NFL is changing and you either roll with it or tap out.

Read the prior 2-3 pages. But hurry up because we are now up to 150k a year and rising fast.

Notice that the discussion has been moved from people earning $22/hr buying PSLs to people making $50k a year buying current season tickets. This is how Einstein operates.

Gotta keep that story going about how tragic the PSLs are for the little man. I mean, they won’t even let you use food stamps to buy a PSL. Friggin Pegula!!

You really think people making $22/hour are buying PSLs? They must have elite budgeting skills.

He’s a politician. He heard people were upset, so he jumped out to lead the charge for the common folk. Unfortunately, he’s also an idiot and made people upset when he went to Ohio to view the eclipse. The first comment in response to his waxing poetic about the eclipse is hilarious.

I’m surprised the one club doesn’t have viewing of the field. Is it located behind some suites or just buried in the structure somehow?

I read that the PSL sales can only go toward the stadium construction costs, but it was probably here that I read it so YMMV.

Well, to be completely accurate, he’s also buying tiny wieners on sticks and soft pretzels. Maybe a beef on weck. And a Pepsi.

Ironically, it’s a lot like a timeshare….

I really wish the media would do their jobs and stop rehashing the Diggs drama. It’s over and done with. They need to focus on what really happened with Brittany. I need to know the scoop.

We were on a lakeshore north of Syracuse. You could see the shadow (umbra?) approaching from the southwest. As it passed over, everyone was screaming and cheering. Got to see the ring of fire through the clouds. The sunset over the lake was gorgeous. Then suddenly it was light again. Definitely a lifetime experience. Also, no discernible change from normal traffic despite all the warnings.

The Wikipedia and other articles about the making of the album are really interesting. And the female singer in Great Gig in the Sky sued for a writing credit and won, even though she doesn’t sing any words.

And perhaps this is why the Bills haven’t released an overall pricing structure. They are going with the infamous “dynamic pricing” like done for concerts and other events. They are gauging the market as they sell PSLs from top to bottom. The Bills also have a very layered pricing where different rows in the same section have different prices, at least that’s what I saw from a figure someone presented upthread. So that will give them further flexibility to have multiple price points within section. Perhaps the Bills/Legends have studied past PSL sales and seen the trends in the Jets, Falcons and Raiders sales and developed this method to avoid having to lower prices after they are announced. Just a thought. Not defending it. Offering an explanation.

I think the article does a good job of answering your questions. It wasn’t 20k seats, it was 9,000 unsold seats that they lowered the price to ensure a sell out. They offered 9,000 other seat holders a refund for the difference in the original PSL price and the reduced price. So, you can easily check the capacity of the stadium to see the percentage of total seats this represents. And it seems clear they lost potential revenue by lowering the costs, but it seems doubtful they were in the red because of it, given the percentage of seats it represents. Your question about revenue isn’t really an either/or situation as you posed it; it does represent a loss of revenue and as a consequence, they did not make as much revenue as they had anticipated.

The Jets also refunded the difference to 9,000 PSL holders who had already purchased in the reduced price sections, per the article I linked. The reduced price was for 9,000 unsold seats.