Bills vs. Jets Tickets Selling as low as $8

[JMF2006]

9 hours ago, JohnNord said:

Pretty crazy, just checking out the prices for the game on Sunday.  The tickets seem to be selling for super cheap.  You can buy 300 level seats for $8.  $8!!!!!!  Everywhere else seems cheap as well.  Endzone for $50?

Am I missing something?

 

I guess there are some reasons for this:

 

Vaccination Mandate

Bad weather

Issues with Canadian border

Lack of interest in Week 18?

 

Any other thoughts why ticket prices would be so low?

 

Its a bit surprising considering the Bills could win the AFC East Championship with a victory.  
 

Could this be a sign fans are sick of the crappy winter weather?

 

https://www.ticketmaster.com/buffalo-bills-vs-new-york-jets-orchard-park-new-york-01-09-2022/event/00005A8799AF1DE4

 

We are waiting for a dome  

 

Vaccination Mandate

Bad weather

Issues with Canadian border

Lack of interest in Week 18?

 

Plus all of the above

[JMF2006]

My thinking is we already have an open air venue and while its not perfect its viable.

 

A 500m in a reno would do the trick

 

If your building a new one for 1.4-1.6m why not get a roof?

 

To me it makes sense.

[ProcessTruster]

9 hours ago, Jimboismyman said:

It’s also the Jets. Most fans won’t want to over pay to watch the bills play a crappy team 

Factor in the time change. Im not looking forward to a 4:25 kick off. I would much rather have my typical 1 pm Sunday kickoff. 

yeah, around 630 in the dark and cold and wind , you'd be completely frozen ...no thanks.   Tough scheduling year this year with 2 last games at home, which should be an advantage, but watching the game Sunday the fans looked really cold

[WotAGuy]

6 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:

 

 

Are you dense?  We don't resell our tickets online so they aren't being transferred........so they would not know this information.   And no........they have no idea whatsoever who sits in our seats.   I could give you more specific examples to prove that but let's just say the banned ***** tossers could walk in with some of our ST cards for all they know.  As far as they know we have 30 full time ST holders when it's more like 15 people who pay for all of the tickets and actually attend every game.

 

Those 15 tickets will be all that's left if they triple in cost.  

 

Now there is plenty of money in Bills fandom to fill 60K considerably more expensive seats........Joe-sixpack doesn't think so but there is..........the key is making it worthwhile for them to show up.    The outdoor environment in Nov/Dec/Jan closes the market off to people with means who might bring their wives and kids or people who might fly in from their seasonal homes or just ex-pats with means.   The kind of people who aren't put out by the cost.

 

 

I just don’t think the Bills care about this issue of late season game attendance; they probably have a plan to make it more tolerable, like heated areas to have a drink and watch the game. 
 

The Bills are a multi-billion corporation. They know the market. They will be focused on selling licenses and season tickets. They won’t be depending on people buying/using tickets to late season games because the tickets will already be sold. 

I can see why you and others that buy extra season tickets as an investment (either financially or as a business-related “gift” for customers) are concerned about being able to dump your late season tickets.  But the Bills already have your money and they don’t care. 

 

[Mr. WEO]

Yes build a dome for future week 18 games.

 

 

 

10 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

It's been like this for as long as I can remember, even the Super Bowl 90's. You couldn't get rid of December tickets, especially for an NFC team. That's why I'm stunned the Pegulas are insisting on an open-air stadium.

 

Insisting?

 

If they wanted one they could add easily a dome.  They don't want to pay for one. 

[mead107]

Been going to games 30 years. 
sat in a lot of cold rain snow weather 

that’s football 

 

suck it up. 
 

now that I’m old I like the club seats. 
under the heater or sit inside club and watch TV 

next year I will not be a season ticket holder 

will make one or 2 games 

Buy tickets last minute for next to nothing. 

 

[Canadian Bills Fan]

11 hours ago, JohnNord said:

Pretty crazy, just checking out the prices for the game on Sunday.  The tickets seem to be selling for super cheap.  You can buy 300 level seats for $8.  $8!!!!!!  Everywhere else seems cheap as well.  Endzone for $50?

Am I missing something?

 

I guess there are some reasons for this:

 

Vaccination Mandate

Bad weather

Issues with Canadian border

Lack of interest in Week 18?

 

Any other thoughts why ticket prices would be so low?

 

Its a bit surprising considering the Bills could win the AFC East Championship with a victory.  
 

Could this be a sign fans are sick of the crappy winter weather?

 

https://www.ticketmaster.com/buffalo-bills-vs-new-york-jets-orchard-park-new-york-01-09-2022/event/00005A8799AF1DE4

 

 

Ugh...

 

$8.00 USD is still like $4,354.75 Canadian :(

[LewPort71]

11 hours ago, Royale with Cheese said:

It's supposed to be a rainy, sleeting and snowy day.

So, it's a normal day at The Ralph.

 

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

$8 for the Nose Bleed of Nose Bleed seats. 
 

in the furthest upper corner seat 💺 

[Greg S]

I know its the secondary market but $8 is pathetic for a potential division clinching win at home. When was the last time the Bills clinched the division at home?

[BearNorth]

December 28th 1963.  Pats at Bills in the Rockpile, AFC Playoff to meet Chargers in the title game.  21 degrees wind chill of 9, tickets were my big christmas present - our seats in the bleachers were formed by pressing a garbage can into the snow since Buffalo had a foot of snow earlier in the week.  Makes me think hey, a dome would be good.

[Rochesterfan]

9 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

 

That's like a half face truth

 

12 home playoff games at the Ralph in the bills history

 

How many have not been sold out? 2-3? Jim Kelly wasn't playing in one of them either   

 

The Ralph used to hold 80,000 plus back in the '80s 90s..  place was rocking the majority of the time 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And this above is a half truth - there were a few that didn’t sell out, but even with the ones that did sell out - there were a bunch that Ralph or several other local businesses had to pick up the last 5-10,000 tickets to get the sell out.  They would then distribute to Veterans groups or give away to the snow shovelers.

 

It seemed nearly every late season and playoff game after the 90 season - everyone was on the edge of their seats on Thursday waiting to see if we would hit the magical sell out number by the 1pm cutoff for the game to be on TV.

 

Then we would get notification that Ralph picked up the last 8,500 tickets and gave them to this charity or that group.

 

If the companies or Ralph hadn’t bought those tickets - we would of never seen most of the late season and playoff games in the 90’s.

 

At the peak of team success - late season games would garner about 69,000 fans and the remaining tickets were almost always difficult to get rid off.

 

It is even worse now as you can bring less in with you.

 

 

[PromoTheRobot]

9 hours ago, Bills fan since 87 said:

 

I grew up in the ADKs.  It was odd.  Channel 7 was cbs out of syracuse sometimes, even though it was technically a "watertown station".  Both 5 and 7 were CBS.....Maybe that played into it?

 

Anyway, go scoop up some cheap tix folks!  We got a division to win!

 

Except that was not Montanas last game.  He lost to the Fish the following year in the playoffs as a Chief..

 

Well it was the beginning of the end. He got pulverized by Bruce Smith that game.

[Matt_In_NH]

I find this surprising with the division on the line.  I get its December and weather but $8 is basically free, $50 too.  Wish I lived in the region still

[Just Jack]

2 hours ago, BillnutinHouston said:

The stadium holds 71,608 and there were significant chunks of the upper level unoccupied.  It was the most sparsely attended game of the year.  My guess would be the attendance was closer to 62,000.

 

That was after the renovations.  Before the 1997 (or maybe 1998) season, the stadium held just under 80,000.  

8 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

I’m guessing this is why the new open air stadium will only have 60k seats.

 

Funny side note, when the Pats* were looking to relocate to Hartford, CT, the stadium design that Kraft came up with, was only going to have 60,000 seats and 60 suites, similar to what is rumored for the new Bills Stadium. 

Edited January 5, 2022 by Just Jack

[Gisele]

Didn't read all the comments but I'd say a lot of this is the fact that everyone is sick.  Lot's of people are either physically sick or just getting over being sick.  

[djp14150]

11 hours ago, JohnNord said:

Pretty crazy, just checking out the prices for the game on Sunday.  The tickets seem to be selling for super cheap.  You can buy 300 level seats for $8.  $8!!!!!!  Everywhere else seems cheap as well.  Endzone for $50?

Am I missing something?

 

I guess there are some reasons for this:

 

Vaccination Mandate

Bad weather

Issues with Canadian border

Lack of interest in Week 18?

 

Any other thoughts why ticket prices would be so low?

 

Its a bit surprising considering the Bills could win the AFC East Championship with a victory.  
 

Could this be a sign fans are sick of the crappy winter weather?

 

https://www.ticketmaster.com/buffalo-bills-vs-new-york-jets-orchard-park-new-york-01-09-2022/event/00005A8799AF1DE4

 

vaccination required existed at start of season…not an issue.  The Covid spike is though,

 

weather concerns…this can occur with every  game.  Many fans drive from 2+ hrs away to see the game.

 

border isn’t an issue because it’s been going on all season 

 

STH selling tickets because 3 home games in 4 weeks is tough on them to do…especially with another hone game next week…thus 3 weeks in a row and 4 in 5.

 

game time concerns people  who drive farther out where getting home is 9 pm or later.
 

Concerns of more drinking pregame.  

 

 

the Jets suck.  The ticket sellers could be Jets fans hoping their team had something to play for. Now they don’t.

 

Ticket holders now are Covid positive or close family members or friends are.

 

I went to Carolina game.  Was in town thst weekend thru mid week.  We went as a group of 8 to the game6 of us sat together in one area. The other 2 are STH.  
 

not sure if it was from the game, on Tuesday we found out one tested positive. It was very mild/ asymptomatic.  We got tested as negative. A few days later one of the other people at game tested positive as did his gf.  Unsure if his came from his work or gf. But gf had got boosted. He hadn’t.

 

we alsosocialized with him snd his gf on Monday night when we got together with friends+SO fir dinner. There was 15 of us. It could have been more but a few couples backed out.  The guys couldn’t go to the game because of other commitments with work and game schedule flex uncertainty in trying to plan around that.

 

 

 

 

[Bills fan since 87]

13 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

Well it was the beginning of the end. He got pulverized by Bruce Smith that game.

 

Yep, I rememeber.  Had to leave the game in the 3rd qtr i believe

[PromoTheRobot]

46 minutes ago, Greg S said:

I know its the secondary market but $8 is pathetic for a potential division clinching win at home. When was the last time the Bills clinched the division at home?

Think about this: it costs more to buy Sabres tickets!!

[Greg S]

Just now, PromoTheRobot said:

Think about this: it costs more to buy Sabres tickets!!

 

Ouch. I get it if it was a meaningless game between two bad teams but the Bills can clinch the AFCE at home for the first time decades.