Season-ticket sales

Three reactions to the news today that the Bills expect to to 50,000 season tickets. http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/340667.html 1. Obviously, Buffalo has remarkable support for the NFL. There is no way fans in Atlanta or Jacksonville would be this supportive of a team that has not made the playoffs since 1999. 2. The Bills have done a good job of marketing, using group sales and creating a "scarcity" of product to encourage season-ticket sales. 3. The NFL, despite regular price increases throughout the league, remains a value product compared with the other major sports. It's an all-day event, and it's less expensive than a single-game outing to an NBA or NHL game. Now ... it would be nice if those season-ticket holders were rewarded with a good year. The Bills have gone 4-4 at home the past two seasons and have not gone 6-2 at home since '99. They must go at least 5-3 at home this year, which is not too much to ask. The home games: Seattle-Sept. 9, Oakland-Sept. 21, San Diego-Oct. 19, the Jets-Nov. 2, Cleveland-Nov. 17, San Francisco-Nov. 30, Miami-Dec. 7, New England-Dec. 28.

---Mark Gaughan

Comments

[Jim Glinski]

Stand Up and Shout

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Time for Bills Fans to Shout. We need to promote the largest protest the NFL has ever seen. Blah,Blah,Blah, We know nothing can be done about the Toronto games right now and a lot of you weak fans think it is a good thing and don't care about losing a home game. But for the true Fans this is still a bunch of Crap. Since the NFL is so Image conscious, lets give them something to worry about. For the season opener we need to stage the largest protest we can to bring national attention about our situation here.We need to let the rest of the country and league (including the fans around the league) about our Toronto problem and about the team moving situation. Not everyone knows about the NFL 's regionalization policy and that they want this league wide. This will let fans around the country know what is going on and that this can and will happen to their team and that something must be done. Any sizable protest will attract major media attention. Especially opening weekend. It would definitely draw the attention of all the networks. Some of you will think this is lame or not worthy,but it will get the attetion of the NFL and commissioner Goodell which all we need to do. This should get Goodell and Ralph to come out in public and address this situation about moving the Bills and hopefully get a public commitment on keeping the Bills in Buffalo.
SEASON TICKET HOLDERS, TRUE FANS,AND BUFFALO DESERVE BETTER