Buffalo Bills fans are bashing “outrageous” ticket prices to see a home game at the team’s flashy new Highmark Stadium, where the cheapest seats cost an eye-watering $700.
Bills Mafia from as far as Florida, Tennessee and Texas flocked to Orchard Park, New York, this week for the shiny new stadium’s ribbon-cutting ceremony – but many said they fear they won’t be able to afford a ticket.
“Ticket prices are outrageous,” one Bills fan told WIVB News 4, Buffalo’s CBS affiliate.
As of Friday morning, the cheapest available for the Bills’ first regular season home game on Sept. 17 was $702.10 on Ticketmaster, The Post found.
“If you have a family with one kid or two kids — four tickets — that’s a lot of money,” said a loyal Bills fan who was visiting the stadium all the way from Florida.
Another agreed, saying: “It’s scary when you got a family of four or five and you’ve got to pay these kind of prices for tickets.”
Many Bills devotees worried that they might never see a game in the new stadium — for which taxpayers paid $850 million. It will be the home of the NFL franchise for the next 30 years.
“It’s going to be impossible, almost, to get in here,” one fan told WIVB News 4.
Another lamented: “I probably will never see a game here.”
The sky-high prices are reportedly being driven by the new stadium unveiling – a $2.1 billion, 60,000-seat project that broke ground in June 2023 – and heightened Bills fervor.
“It’s because of the new stadium,” Nick Giammusso, chief executive of VIPTix, a ticket reseller, told WIVB News 4.
“It’s a new stadium with demand from the Bills playing really well, and Josh Allen, and then you’ve got the away teams like Kansas City, New England, who fetch a higher price.”
Giammusso said prices could change in the future, but fans who are eager to see a home game soon should set their sights on pre-season tickets.
“If you really want to get into the stadium, the pre-season games are attractive price-wise,” he said. “You’re talking $100 for Pittsburgh.”
The new Highmark Stadium, which was designed by architectural firm Populous, features a natural grass field instead of turf, underground heating coils to prevent the grass from freezing and the world’s largest stadium snow-melt system, according to ESPN.
It was also designed to reduce the impact of the wind, with a 360-degree canopy that covers more than 60% of the seating bowl.
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