Following the report that the Buffalo Bills will make $78 million for playing eight games in Toronto over the next five years, it should come as no surprise that tickets in Toronto will cost a lot more money than tickets in Buffalo.
The Buffalo News reports that sideline seats from the end zones to the 20-yard lines will cost $295 a game, and seats between the 20-yard lines will be more expensive than that, with exact prices to be revealed next week.
The average ticket price for Bills games at Toronto’s Rogers Centre will be well over $200, far higher than the average ticket price at Buffalo’s Ralph Wilson Stadium, which is $51.24, the News reports. Ralph Wilson Stadium seats about 20,000 more people than the Rogers Centre, but the bottom line is still significantly more ticket revenue in Toronto than the Bills can make in Buffalo.
Despite the prices, demand is high enough that tens of thousands of fans are expected to buy the full eight-game package for admission to every game in Toronto over the next five years. The eight-game package offers a discount, with $295 seats going for $270. Bills and Toronto Argonauts season-ticket holders have first dibs on tickets, with the remaining tickets going to randomly selected fans who registered online.
Starting with this year’s preseason, the Bills will play preseason games in Toronto every other year and regular-season games every year through 2012. Although it’s impossible to say what economic conditions will look like five years from now, it’s hard not to think that in the future, Toronto will host even more Bills games.
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May 8th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I am one of the 100,000 people that registered for these Tix……trust me, no way in hell am I paying that much!! I went to a Denver game for less than $50 a ticket. Anything Rogers gets his filthy paws on ROTS……GoodLuck Ralph….this time you picked the wrong partner
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May 8th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
After all of his groaning after the last CBA negotiation, and then his whining to Chuck Schumer and whoever else would listen, I wonder if Ralph Wilson bristles at the idea that all this income does is cut down his share of NFL owner welfare.
On the flip side, it’s also probably just enough to keep Jonathan Kraft from visiting his office with a clipboard and a list of suggestions on how to increase his formerly-unshared income. Or, perhaps that’s where this idea came from in the first place. So, perhaps we’ll next be seeing Canadian Tire Stadium at Orchard Park selling poutine and crispy fatback at halftime.
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May 8th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
If i can say one thing, is that this whole situation could only happen in Buffalo. We (Buffaloninans) arent known for having good luck. Theres the whole “wide right” thing, the 4 total super bowl losses in a row, the “Music City Miracle”, hockeys “No Goal” and various other things. The question “will the bills leave Buffalo” is one that we all worry about. It would be our luck if it happened, but we still support our team, and go about our lives, as tough as they may be with a smile. The Bills ARE Buffalo, so they may be doomed, but like us Buffalonians do, we will still keep up the hope in spite of the obvious signs, and then be very let down when it doesn’t go our way. Then we’ll grab a beer and sit down to enjoy our comfortable summers
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May 8th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
…And for the person who said our games are boring, did you see our games last year? The monday night game alone would show that we arent boring. We had at least 5 games on NFL Replay last year becuase they were not boring!
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May 8th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
To the imbecile that basically said the “smarter fans pay 1/4 of the price the Toronto fans pay”, you are the perfect example of a small minded person.
Completely ignorant yet always ready to talk, you can’t even understand something as simple as “supply and demand”.
Aye carumba.
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May 9th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Firstly, you are wrong when you say that Bills and Argo season ticket holders have first dibs. I am a season ticket holder and live in Toronto and haven’t been invited to the table. It is the season holders that have Argo seats have first dibs only!
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