Albany,n.y.

This is sort of normal. I follow Super Bowl prices every year & the best time to buy is usually the Sunday before the game. After that the seat selection goes down & unless you're only interested in the get-in priced tickets buy between Sat-Monday a week before the game. Prices may still go down on the get in price if there's any panic selling by brokers, but the better seats will be gone. This year, even though the price of tickets is following a mostly normal path there's the problem with lodging. The best hotels near the stadium were booked by the NFL & travel agencies like NFL On Location & Bullseye. If you waited for ticket prices to come down, the lodging didn't come down & many of the hotel & ticket packages are now sold out. I could not find any combination hotel & ticket packages left on NFL On Location today. Next year when the Bills get in, I won't buy that 1st night. I'll monitor the prices & hope to get a decent price Saturday or Sunday a week before. Here's what happened in the last 2 Super Bowls I went to: SBXLVIII: I bought the Tuesday before the game. Prices were under 2K for the upper deck at Met-Life. I could have bought an upper end zone seat for around $1,500-$1,600 but instead bought an upper corner for $1,857.50. I paid $105 for parking at Stub Hub's location, a few miles from the stadium & we were bussed to the game & back. I drove there the morning of the game & stayed in a motel in northern NJ at a regular rate with no SB mark-up the night after the game ended. SB50: After the Arizona fiasco the year before when prices for the game skyrocketed the week of the game leaving many people stranded without a ticket I panicked when prices went up during the season & bought 2 upper deck tickets at Levi's for $4,726 each in December. That year turned out to be normal & I could have gotten the tickets for about $3,500 a week before the game.

Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch. President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again.

So, you admit Trump is a worthless piece of trash for blaming his predecessors for the crash. Got It! https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-obama-biden-dei-dc-plane-crash-2023610 President Donald Trump blasted the administrations of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, along with diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) initiatives within the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation, while speaking about the plane crash near Washington, D.C., on Thursday. "I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best to extraordinary," Trump said at a press conference. "Only the highest aptitude. They have to be the highest intellect and psychological aptitude that were allowed to be qualified for air traffic controllers."

I was going to go to the Super Bowl if the Bills had gotten in. Now I'm not going. I guess you can say that I'm boycotting the game.

I'm thinking of the thousands of dollars I just saved by not going to the Super Bowl. I also would have had to postpone a procedure & the doctor would have been pretty PO'd. Better timing next year as long as I'm still physically able to go, with at my age & condition, is no guarantee.

Tell that to Ravens' fans.

I don't like going for 2 this early. It's a dumb Harbaugh move.

As I said, Ralph did many good things. Unfortunately, he was also a cheapskate at various times in the franchise history.

Ralph was cheap at various points in the franchise history. Sure, he paid his players during the Super Bowl runs, but he also cheaped out big time numerous times. He may not have been afraid to spend money, but plenty of times the only way to open his wallet was with a crowbar. The Bills are still the only NFL team to lose the #1 overall pick to the CFL. The Bills lost players to the upstart USFL including Jim Kelly & Joe Cribbs. The Bills were too cheap to pay Jason Peters & traded him to Philadelphia. The only name coach Ralph ever hired was Chuck Knox. (Marv was JAG when he was hired by his friend Bill Polian). That's because attendance had dropped to about 35,000 a game & he had to do something to bring the fans back out of desperation. This was a common theme in the 70s & 80s. Bad attendance, spend money, cheap out again when the attendance improves, then be forced to spend again to get the fans back, In the mid 80s his cheap ways had turned the team into a laughingstock & attendance dropped so low, he was forced to spend to get the fans back. The Bills were a complete laughingstock when Ralph had to pony up the big bucks for Jim Kelly. It was always the same cycle over & over again. Fortunately, by the time of Ralph's final drought, fans were still coming, otherwise there would have been another threat to move the team like he had done years before threatening to move to Seattle. Ralph did many good things for the franchise, but he also hurt the team numerous times with his miserly ways.

One of the best examples is when Rob Johnson & Doug Flutie played behind the same O-line & Rob took a lot more sacks than Doug.

This is why when you're a hot assistant, you have to take a HC job if it's offered. The pipe dream that a team like the Bills can keep Brady by offering him more money isn't going to happen if he's offered a HC job this year (although there aren't many left). Look at what happens if the hot OC's O drops in productivity. An OC can end up like Slowik or even worse, Byron Leftwich, who has been reduced to interviews so a team that has no intention of hiring him can meet the Rooney Rule requirements.

I think the writing was on the wall when they when they banned Whaley from speaking to the media. It was obvious at the NFL scouting combine in March when the Bills declined to make Whaley available to speak to the media — which is commonplace for general managers at that event — that his days were numbered. When he was also muted at the NFL owners’ meetings, and lastly, and perhaps most alarmingly, he was not allowed to talk at the team’s annual draft luncheon a couple weeks ago, which has always been the domain of the GM and the personnel chiefs, there was no doubt Whaley was a short-timer in Buffalo. https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/sports/football/nfl/bills/2017/04/30/no-ones-surprise-buffalo-bills-fire-gm-doug-whaley/101122388/

You don't need 9 blue chip players to win a Super Bowl. There's a reason he's a FORMER coach. 😀

What's really amazing is that if you think of current QB's in the NFL who will be future HOFers, just about every one is in the AFC. The only one in the NFC who currently has enough of a career to maybe get in is Stafford. Meanwhile, in the AFC we have Allen, Mahomes, Jackson, Rodgers, and Burrow with Wilson having a chance from his Seattle days.

The reason they're hiring Glenn is so when next season the NYC media says Aaron is the real coach of the Jets Woody can tell them they're right. Woody is playing 3D chess hiring a guy named Aaron as the Jets coach.

Philly is similar to Baltimore. You have to gameplan to stop their RB. One down, one to go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVmYsOEeHm4

Well, it was "we". Lamar & Andrews. 😄

KC had so many lucky breaks during the season that I'm pretty confident. Not confident enough to buy Super Bowl tickets yet, but confident. They remind me of the Vikings team 2 years ago that got every break during the season & lost to the Giants in the 1st round of the playoffs.

He didn't outplay Josh. He had 2 turnovers. Get your head out of the stat sheet & pay attention to the game on the field.

Baltimore got what they deserved. They got greedy & wanted to tie the game with too much time on the clock. If they had kicked the extra point to get within 1, they would not have had to go for 2 after the last TD & could have sent the game into overtime. Too many teams go for 2 too early in the game.

I've done it on one of those end of season rest your players before the playoffs games in 2019 against the Jets I knew Matt Barkley would play the majority of the game & not Josh. Easy money. I almost did it again this year, but since I thought NE would tank for #1, I stayed away from the game.

Worse than ghosts. Darnold was possessed by Rob Johnson who wanted one more game on an NFL field.

Sam Darnold lost more money in the last 8 days than Charles Barkley ever did in an 8 day period.

When your QB turns back into a pumpkin, there's nothing a coach can do other than play the game out and prepare for next season.