Like every other Bills fan I have mixed feelings for this new stadium outlook. One the stadium does look nice and as much as I hate the ralph due to it being so generic, old and boring and people wonder why we rarly host monday or even Sunday night games. If you look around at the stadium outlooks on the Sunday and Monday night games they are awesome. The make up of all these stadiums are breathe taking and the the ralph is well, a dump compared to them. Even the damn Cleveland Browns have a better stadium than the Bills. And they have sucked for longer than the Bills. But the look is not what my main point about this is, the Ralph is due for roughly a 250 million renivation this year and for a stadium as old as it is, the stadium is not worth the renivations. So my opinion would be to take the hit of the 1.4 Billion for these years upcoming because this Stadium/hotel/resturants/home shows/concert center (you see the point) will pay for itself within 2 to 3 years. Not only that but it would bring the economy up in Buffalo which has been much needed so therefor it is a win win for both sides.
Now getting the 1.4 Billion can be tough but in reality if worse were to come I believe a man name Terry Pagula would step in and unload his big pocket book to do whatever it takes to keep Buffalo a happening place. Besides in recent polls taken the Buffalo Bills were voted to have the number 2 fan base in all of the NFL. The packers were number one of course but that is because they have always been a good team. The same can not be said about the Bills as we all know. In getting this fantastic stadium it will bring in money to the local restuarants as well and we all know everybody loves Buffalos food and more importantly the best wings in the world. So in order to make money for buffalo you need to spend money as the old saying goes and there is money to be made with this idea.
However the two main factors that I am still up in the air about are the following: 1. the retractable roof. Now it is agreed that teams hate playing in buffalo because they are scared to get a little cold. And reason number 2 is tailgating. Tailgating is a fun filled day of throwing the pig skin around while bonding with friends and family. It is just a great pregame activity that if you have not experienced before I highly recommend it. However, with this new stadium it can be taken away but honestly I feel as if people can come up with ideas to keep that tradition going if they are die hard tailgaters or perhaps move the pre game party to a local bar (also helps the local bars and community) or find a park around to play some catch. Going back to the rof situation, one of the main problems being a Bills fan is that the games are not always sold out because realistically sitting on a cold bleacher freezing your butt off to watch your team get killed does not seem like a way to spend 3 or more hours of your sunday. Oh and if you dont bundle completly up perhaps you can get frost bite. But with weather that is stabalized with the roof more people per say go to the games and then that leads to people not constantly freezing and Bills games on TV every weekend! Now as awesome as that does sound it does take away a huge advantage for the bills and lets face it we need all we can get. Another fact is that this new stadium will be easier to fill up because it is 3 thousand less seats and realistically that is a lot of people that we no longer need to fill thus making it easier to sell out the games.
My last point is that if we do go through with this whole new stadium is that Buffalo will be given as a Superbowl host. Lets be honest there is not one person in Buffalo who would not want the chance to get there hands on that ticket. Given all the perks that the superbowl brings (along with an actuall good game in buffalo) will guarentee success in the Buffalo Buisness world and help out tremendously. Add that fact on to our amazing fan base and the stadium might as well not have a roof because the noise will go through it reguardless. Overal I am all for the new stadium and what it would bring. But tell me this wouldnt it be awesome if we were to get a new stadium, new QB, new coaching staff and a new atmosphere to start the beginning of a new changed team that is actually given hope? along with the fact that the Bills will stay here in Buffalo opposed to moving to Canada. Nobody wants to see the beloved Bills leave this City. The Change is near GO BILLS!!!
(ps sorry for all the typos and poor spelling my word is down and have no way to check for this things)
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