http://theredzone.org/BlogDescription.aspx?EntryId=3236 How the fuck does Ralph Wilson think this is warranted? The Bills never spend money on free agents, he routinely hires shitty coaches so he doesn't have to pay good ones, and his team has consistently been one of the worst teams this decade. The Music City Miracle was the last time that they have been in the playoffs. How about putting a winning team on the field before trying to get your customers to pay more. I wouldn't be surprised if this was an attempt to justify a move.
Well, its not as if he's trying to charge 20k for a PSL atfer missing the playoffs. Those ticks are some of the cheapest in the NFL still and its not a huge issue IMO.
The ticket prices are not, in and of themselves, the ludicrous point here. It's the pattern of failure that the Ralph Wilson has been pursuing for a decade now that leads me to believe that he's either trying to force the Buffalo fan base away from the team or surrounded by a large group of people who are very good at hiding the physically apparent signs of his deepening senility.
prices go up, this isn't a big deal. why anyone would pay any amount of money to watch the bills play is a separate issue.
hmm lets see their tickets go up 10 bucks to a whopping 60 bucks a game.... meanwhile over in jetsland they take a 125 dollar ticket and ask you to pay 7500 for the right to purchase the 125 dollar ticket for 400.... then they lie to you, treat you like a moron AND to top it all off you have no way to get out when they raise the tickets 10% next year, yeah that would be 40 bucks MORE 2/3rds of what a ticket costs in buffalo. yeah that ralph wilson hes a real motherfucker. lets not forget the bills won the division what 10 years in a row last decade. did the jets do that? if you want to be pissed at wilson be pissed he is playing games in toronto, be pissed the team is going to move when he dies or sells. be pissed they havent won, but god man you really cant be pissed at him for raising tickets by 2 to 10 bucks a piece.
I'd love it if my ticket prices were raised to that amount. I paid $75/gm for my top row seat, which exploded from the 25 dollars they were in 1996... and will be paying $120/gm + a $4000 PSL for corner mezzanine in the new building.
You're raging on Ralph for increasing the lowest ticket price in the NFL? And a $2-$10 increase at that? Cmon man! Ralph's old and makes some boneheaded FO moves, but keeping the Ralph packed is something he's been good at. The Ralph seat ~75,000. Even if he raised the price $10 across the board, that's only $750,000. He's hardly raping the fanbase in Buffalo. That $750,000 would barely cover Marshawn Lynch's legal fees for a season.
If he was tryign to force the fan base away he would have never OK'd the move for TO. Say what you want, but TO is "entertainment" in its most Jerry Springer form. That was a move deisgned to fill seats as much as win football games. The Bills Would have to raise prices a lot more than 10$ a ticket to keep fans away. RWS is packed for all home games and its usually a very lively crowd. I think your way off base with your accustaions about trying to force the fan base away. Do the Bills make great persoanl moves? Nope, not often. They do give the Jets fits every year and thats enough to keep me unhappy. I'd gladly trade them out of the division for a foe like the Lions.
Ralph Wilson is the only reason the Bills are still in Buffalo and when he goes they will too. There are a lot of issues with his ownership but anybody in Buffalo who is complaining is nuts because they'll be Browns fans when he is gone - and that'll be worse.
It reminds me of one of my favorite movies. Back on topic, both octogenarian slightly nutty owners in the NFL are singlehandedly pinning their franchises in bad locations - and both are drawing a huge amount of flack from fan bases that are going to lose the teams to greener pastures as soon as the owners pass. That's kind of the definition of football hell, both for the cities involved and the owners.
Everybody dogpiles on old Ralph yet he was the one owner that said the new CBA was garbage. He got laughed at by everybody from fans, to the media to the other owners. 4 years later he was the one that was right. The Bills may not be the best team in the league yet the Bills have a fantastic history and have had some amazing teams in my lifetime. What I would have given for the Jets to have had Jim Kelly as their QB or defensive players like Bruce Smith. We can dog him but the Bills teams from the mid 90's have more HOFers then we do in our history.
Mike Brown was also a staunch opponent of the 2006 CBA. Forget the Bills' history for a second. The Raiders until this past decade were one of the most storied franchises in the NFL until crazy old uncle Al started to lose it. I probably was overreacting to hearing of ticket prices going up but Ralph Wilson is still driving a franchise into the ground. I almost wish that he was doing it on purpose because after watching the coaching carousel of this decade and off season after off season of terrible FA classes, if Wilson actually thinks that he is helping his team, it has just gotten sad and pathetic.
