Bills exploring possibility of allowing fans in stadium

[dollars 2 donuts]

13 hours ago, nucci said:

I remember going in '84 with 20k. 

 

Nuch, Bills vs Houston, if memory serves me?  ‘84 or ‘85?

 

i was there...yeah, I am not sure people realize how few 20,000 (18,000 in 2020 at 25%) really is.  I’d be for it and I think they can work it out.  Take cues from Disney.  Hell, takes cues from what mostly has been going on around the country, at least with those that have common sense.  Arrows, markers, circular stickers, blocked off seats.  
 

If people can try and be mature about it I think it can be done, but again, at about 25% capacity.

edit: 

@JESSEFEFFER @nucci

 

I swear I didn’t cheat and see Jessefeffer’s post before I posted.  Only saw it afterwards.  I was honestly going on memory.  Believe me, I wear my attendance during those dark days as a badge of honor.  It was the necessary purgatory as a fan!

Edited August 19, 2020 by dollars 2 donuts

[Liberal Bob]

15 hours ago, Johnnycage46 said:

Secondary market ticket prices might soar if this happens.

 

Not if the Bills do not allow for the transfer of mobile tickets. This is one of the reasons why so many fans despise mobile ticketing as it gives the fans ability to control their tickets even though they paid for them.

[Utah John]

15 hours ago, matter2003 said:

 

If you simply helicoptered onto the field and went to your seats then sure.

 

How can you do it in narrow concourses and ramps leading to the seats themselves?

 

How do you do in bathrooms?

 

Outside the gates leading into the stadium?

 

The seating part isn't the issue, the issue is getting to the seating and use of the bathrooms.

If they limit the size of the crowd to 10K or so, the lines in the bathrooms won't be very long, if any.  They could set up a roped-off lane to allow only so many people into the bathroom at the same time.  Same thing for the gates outside -- set up rope lanes and use spacing between the people in line.  With smaller crowds, this won't be insurmountable.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

16 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

Encouraging considering they already announced Jets/Giants home games won't have fans.  Having 15 to 20k fans there is better than nothing.

His Lordship Baron Murphy of New Jersey would never allow that kind of tomfoolery.

[ProcessTruster]

15 hours ago, Shaw66 said:

That's what I think.  How do you keep people in their assigned seats.  Are they going to have a cop at every section?

they tape off the seats that cannot be used and close the upper deck , give out bills zubaz masks at the gate,  close the concessions stands for sure and limit the number in the rest rooms.. If people do the right thing and aren't idiots it will work fine.  cars for 20k people will spread out all over the lots.. I don't see an issue .  put porta potties out in the lots so less use of the sinks in the Ralph  .  if concessions are closed, rest rooms will be fine by the second half

[Reneth Gilne]

just limit attendees to people under 65 and non obese,  and let kids in for half price, solved.  

[SoCal Deek]

56 minutes ago, Reneth Gilne said:

just limit attendees to people under 65 and non obese,  and let kids in for half price, solved.  

Wouldn’t that be wild if we started carding people to prove that they were UNDER a certain age? That’ll show those seniors! Always flaunting their ability to drink alcohol, eat off their own menus, and get big discounts at Home Depot! The tables have turned. ?

[klos63]

10 hours ago, Big Blitz said:

 

 

Couldn't be happier to hear it.

 

You have a good governor.

 

 

0.01% depending on age and comorbidities 

 

This pandemic has proven we have a statistics and math problem in America.  In addition to irrational hysteria.  

 

Just watched on Hard Knocks Seth Ryan gets his false positive and they say he was freaked out.  

 

His BMI is like 14.  He's 26.  He literally has almost zero chance of dying.  0.0001

 

Feardemic

We have a weak governor here is AZ, he opened up when we met none of the criteria to open and our cases skyrocketed, he did this the day after trump visited a while back.  As cases and deaths rose he abdicated responsibility to the Mayors and local governments, they're the reason cases are starting to decrease.

[iinii]

18 hours ago, Johnnycage46 said:

Secondary market ticket prices might soar if this happens.

Might? Ya think? 

[iinii]

18 hours ago, thenorthremembers said:

For getting into and out of the stadium you have assigned gate times for the sections.  For bathrooms you have a security guard who only allows a certain number of fans in to do their business at a time. 

You have never been to the stadium have you? 

[thenorthremembers]

41 minutes ago, iinii said:

You have never been to the stadium have you? 

The first time I went I was nine years old, I had a beer spilled on me, to this day I consider it a baptism.

[Chandler#81]

30 minutes ago, thenorthremembers said:

The first time I went I was nine years old, I had a beer spilled on me, to this day I consider it a baptism.

It was. You’re welcome.

[BullBuchanan]

6 hours ago, thenorthremembers said:

Did you read the inital post I quoted?  It said you can wear a mask, social distance or watch from your own home.   

 

Where did I advocate for going to a Bills game letting people spit all over me and then going straight to the supermarket to make out with the checkout girl?

 

Its too bad we will never see the numbers on this thing without some Govenors using people as human germ missiles on nursing homes.  Think fearbunkers may be less full.

Are we this far along and people still don't understand how the virus works?

I still have to empty my waterbottle at the airport because 3000 people died 20 years ago, and you don't understand why some folks aren't keen on packing stadiums with tens of thousands of people when we have an active pandemic that's claimed 171,000 lives and maimed an unknown amount above that? Not believing in facts doesn't invalidate them.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

[chaccof]

20 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

Encouraging considering they already announced Jets/Giants home games won't have fans.  Having 15 to 20k fans there is better than nothing.

20,000ish was about what they got during the dark years of 84 and 85 wasn't it?  At least that's what I recall it looking like.  

[JÂy RÛßeÒ]

My response to them was basically "If I can be at games, I will be at games".

Treat it like restaurants in NY - make masks mandatory and enforce their use while away from your seats.

[Gordio]

2 hours ago, klos63 said:

We have a weak governor here is AZ, he opened up when we met none of the criteria to open and our cases skyrocketed, he did this the day after trump visited a while back.  As cases and deaths rose he abdicated responsibility to the Mayors and local governments, they're the reason cases are starting to decrease.

 

 

I will see a bad governor & raise you one.  Our emperor sent sick COVID patients into places where the community is most vulnerable, nursing homes where the results were numerous deaths.  Nice huh?

[Johnnycage46]

2 hours ago, iinii said:

Might? Ya think? 

 

Sometimes.

[chaccof]

19 hours ago, The Firebaugh Kid said:

Glad to see the fun police are trollin every positive comment on here.

Missionary only, and just on holidays and anniversaries I'm guessing? 

Birthdays too!  Don't forget them.....

[RiotAct]

1 hour ago, Gordio said:

 

 

I will see a bad governor & raise you one.  Our emperor sent sick COVID patients into places where the community is most vulnerable, nursing homes where the results were numerous deaths.  Nice huh?

don’t be crapping this thread up with your uncomfortable truths, now!

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

1 hour ago, Gordio said:

 

 

I will see a bad governor & raise you one.  Our emperor sent sick COVID patients into places where the community is most vulnerable, nursing homes where the results were numerous deaths.  Nice huh?

 

So did His Grace, Baron Murphy.