UFL considering expansion. Would Buffalo watch spring football?

[PromoTheRobot]

The UFL is mostly in warm weather markets. But Bills Mafia are tough!! Could we get 10-15K to show up for spring ball? Who wouldn't want a few more tailgate opportunities.

 

Also, our old pal Russ Brandon manages the UFL.

 

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Edited November 25 by PromoTheRobot

[msw2112]

I'd vote no.  Ideally, Buffalo fans will spend their time and money attending Sabres games in the spring.  The Sabres, of course, need to do their part, which is a big ask.  As a smaller market, there just are not that many entertainment dollars to go around.

[US Egg]

[Don Otreply]

2 minutes ago, msw2112 said:

I'd vote no.  Ideally, Buffalo fans will spend their time and money attending Sabres games in the spring.  The Sabres, of course, need to do their part, which is a big ask.  As a smaller market, there just are not that many entertainment dollars to go around.

This, 

the entire pie, has only so many pieces, people have in general allocated their entertainment dollars towards what is entertaining, watching truly mediocre or worse football is not likely to be particularly high on most people’s agenda, jmo. 

[Freddie's Dead]

21 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

The UFL is mostly in warm weather markets. But Bills Mafia are tough!! Could we get 10-15K to show up for spring ball? Who wouldn't want a few more tailgate opportunities.

 

Also, our old pal Russ Brandon manages the UFL.

 

https://search.app?link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theufl.com%2Fnews%2F2024%2Fnovember%2F25%2Funited-football-league-launches-expansion-process-for-new-team-markets&utm_campaign=aga&utm_source=agsadl1%2Csh%2Fx%2Fgs%2Fm2%2F4

 

[Mike in Horseheads]

Maybe they can play in the old Ralph once the upper deck is knocked off.

[frostbitmic]

Does anyone watch spring football  other than ...

 

[GMB 8888]

This could be a cool idea, if they could maybe tie in a reno to UB’s stadium. I know people hate on it, but I don’t mind spring football. Requires little investment and the games last year weren’t terrible.

[Mark Vader]

Bring football back to Oakland! They have a stadium.

[LabattBlue]

17 minutes ago, GMB 8888 said:

This could be a cool idea, if they could maybe tie in a reno to UB’s stadium. I know people hate on it, but I don’t mind spring football. Requires little investment and the games last year weren’t terrible.

One sentence…renovate UB Stadium(which is really a teardown and rebuild) to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.  

 

Next sentence…requires little investment.  
 

Huh?

[chongli]

16 minutes ago, Mark Vader said:

Bring football back to Oakland! They have a stadium.

 

I live in the Bay Area...I try to stay out of Oakland as much as possible. There's a reason the A's, Raiders, and Warriors left (Raiders twice).

Edited November 25 by chongli

[Mark Vader]

6 minutes ago, chongli said:

 

I live in the Bay Area...I try to stay out of Oakland as much as possible. There's a reason the A's, Raiders, and Warriors left (Raiders twice).

My post was intended as a joke.

 

I live in the Bay Area too, and yes, Oakland is not a place to be around.

[PromoTheRobot]

25 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:

One sentence…renovate UB Stadium(which is really a teardown and rebuild) to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.  

 

Next sentence…requires little investment.  
 

Huh?

I think the new Highmark is showing there is no such thing as a "little investment" into a new stadium.

 

As for UB stadium, I don't think there is anything that wrong with it. Yeah the track sucks, but it's not like the field is a million miles away from the stands.

 

But why can't you play games at Highmark? I would think adding 5-6 more events to the stadium calendar would be a good thing, a little extra revenue. People are used to football played at Highmark. Sell seats on just one side to save on staffing concessions, security etc. Charge $10 to park, $20-$30 for tickets. 10K attendance would be a healthy number for the UFL.

Edited November 25 by PromoTheRobot

[JP51]

14 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:

I think the new Highmark is showing there is no such thing as a "little investment" into a new stadium.

 

As for UB stadium, I don't think there is anything that wrong with it. Yeah the track sucks, but it's not like the field is a million miles away from the stands.

 

But why can't you play games at Highmark? I would think adding 5-6 more events to the stadium calendar would be a good thing, a little extra revenue. People are used to football played at Highmark. Sell seats on just one side to save on staffing concessions, security etc. Charge $10 to park, $20-$30 for tickets. 10K attendance would be a healthy number for the UFL.

I wonder if the UFL could afford the rent, security, lighting, clean up, prep and all of those things that come with opening a 70k seat stadium... I think if there was a team, county would love have them use it. I think it would be on the UFL to ultimately see if they could afford it. 

[Big Turk]

No...people barely go to the UB Bulls games and they have been pretty decent to good for much of the last 6-7 years.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

15 hours ago, frostbitmic said:

Does anyone watch spring football  other than ...

 

Is that what they call it?  'Spring football'?  I thought it was called 'hanky panky in the broom closet'. 🤨

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[PromoTheRobot]

6 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

No...people barely go to the UB Bulls games and they have been pretty decent to good for much of the last 6-7 years.

Promotion is key. UB does a lousy job promoting their games.

[Big Turk]

2 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Promotion is key. UB does a lousy job promoting their games.

 

People know about it, they just don't care.  Big difference.

[gonzo1105]

I would think No. UB could be a much better program if they could get butts in the seats but Buffalonians don’t really have any interest in them. They could be in the Big 10 someday if people would invest and in return the school would invest in making that happen

[Bills!Win!]

It’s the bills and nobody else