Hey Buffalo – You Suck!
Yeah, that’s right. I’m talking to you, Buffalo.
You know those crappy preseason games that the Bills used to force you to buy every year in your season ticket packages? The ones you shelled out $60 per ticket for and still didn’t show up for the games?
Well it appears that now that you’re not being forced to buy the one for the crappy preseason game in Canada, you’re actually not buying them at all.
Near their practice field at St. John Fisher College, the Bills erected a huge, air-conditioned tent, half-filled with team merchandise for sale, and half filled with displays from sponsors.
A few metres from the entrance a crew from Tourism Toronto had set up a table, trying to unload some of their allotment of 2,000 seats for the Aug.14 game at Rogers Centre between the Bills and Pittsburgh.
“We haven’t had any (sales) yet, so we’re pretty excited,” said Tourism Toronto’s Jessica Horton as the booth opened. “We’re hoping to sell some tickets to the game.”
But hope alone was no match for fan apathy and faulty computers.
Whaaat? You mean Buffalonians aren’t buying extremely expensive tickets to a meaningless preseason game that will require at least a three-hour commute? What the Hell is wrong with our football fans? Why shouldn’t they want to spend five-times the price of one ticket here in Buffalo to see Marcus Buggs and Felton Huggins live while drinking $12 beers instead of watching them on TV?
Oh, that’s right. We’re pretty fucking smart.
More importantly, it looks like Mr. Wilson was pretty smart to sucker Professor Dickweed into committing to two more of these useless exhibitions for which he promised overflow crowds.
WGR had some guy from The Fan 590 in Toronto on in a total coincidence yesterday morning to talk about how sales for the game were going. Whoever he was (don’t let anyone tell you I’m not one sharp journalist) said there were “seven or eight thousand” tickets remaining, but they are all supposed to be the ones “for the fatcats.” Based on my experiment the other day, I’m going to say that’s not true, but even more important is the fact that eight thousand seats represents about 14% of the Rogers Center Centre capacity for football.
Uh, oh.
Also from the article:
Andrea Burke, a Rochester-based publicist working for Tourism Toronto, said most western New York fans didn’t even know they could buy tickets to individual games, thinking instead they had to pay up front for tickets to all eight games.
Letting go the fact that they should probably have Canadians working for Tourism Toronto, the fact is that once upon a time you did have to buy tickets to all eight games, but that changed when apparently nobody wanted to shell out four grand for the promise of a game five years down the road.
Like I said the other day, the regular season games will sell out. But it’s fun to watch the struggles after all the bragging that was done by a certain Chairman of Rogers Communications.
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Your attempt at sarcasm makes your little rant confusing. You call it “Hey Buffalo – You Suck”, but go on to talk about how foolish we’d be to travel to Toronto for $12 beer and a 3 hour commute. Why would we want to do that? As you said the tickets are more expensive for the games in Toronto.
Buffalonians aren’t thrilled to “share” its home team with any part of Canada. However, in a tough economy, it’s nice to have Canadians paying the money to see preseason games that don’t matter to us.
So carry on. Bitch all you want. But you’re helping to keep the Bills in Buffalo by paying ridiculous amounts to see them play in Toronto. Thanks.
If you don’t like it, go watch some of your own “soccer”. I hear it’s a real exciting.
@Patti
Before you comment ranting about the quality of a post, perhaps you should take a moment to determine if you fully grasp the concepts being presented in it.
Anyway, I’m glad to hear that the ticket are not selling, Canadians don’t want American football in their backyard, and American Bills fans are not going to try to encourage this move by dropping boatloads of money on tickets and the $4,000 worth of gas it’ll take to get there and back.
“We haven’t had any (sales) yet, so we’re pretty excited,â€
That sentence makes almost as much sense as Patti’s rant.
perhaps Patti hadn’t had her medication when she commented. That, or she’s just a fucking idiot.
I’m going to go with the latter.
Spoken like true Canadians. You DO realize that the price of tickets for the Bills games in Toronto will bring in 4 times the revenue they receive here. So, who are the idiots? The Stupid Canadians that will fill up a Toronto stadium to watch someone else’s football team. The Bills owners are laughing all the way to the bank. Perhaps you should invest in season tickets to curling. Here.. I’ll buy you a broom….
I hope you and your bad language don’t come to Canada!
Last I checked Buffalo wasn’t in Canada and neither was my hometown, so I’m not sure how we’re Canadians.
I’m still trying to figure out what soccer had to do with anything…
does patty know that “BfloBlog” is short for “Buffalo Blog?” As in, it’s a Buffalo based blog?
I’m going to guess that Patty is new to the intertubes, and also likely new to humor.
@1 way to be confused by sarcasm, then describe why you were confused by basically using the definition of sarcasm. I am truly envious of your vast expanse of knowledge. If you are not already a literary analyst you should be.(See definition of sarcasm if you are confused by this)
People, people, brothers and sisters can’t we all get along??
First off, the Bills aren’t moving. Accept that. Ralph’s just trying to expand his team’s regional appeal. Why can’t folks just accept that?
Secondly, if they do move, would yunz rather have it be to San Antonio? Or Portland? Or LA?
Actually yes. Also Ralph isn’t getting any younger. Once he passes away the shennanigans will begin.
I’m Canadian?!?!?! OMG! It explains so much! I love hockey and Canadian beer and Tim Horton’s coffee!! It all makes sense now. With that in mind I’m going to max out my credit card on overpriced Bills tickets and spend my grad school tuition money on gas and parking. Thanks Patti!!
To Anne – You are an odd one. Go have another canadian beer. It might make you more intelligent. (That’s sarcasm.)
To Kevin – If you’re from Buffalo, your remarks make even less sense than intended.
As for the Bills, Ralph Wilson is DEFINITELY testing the waters in Canada. The buzz from the stadium is that his children aren’t interested in taking over ownership upon dad’s death. However, Jim Kelly and a committee he has assembled ARE interested. Ralph Wilson (a/k/a “Elmer Fudd”) has stated that his wishes for the sale of this team will be a part of his Will. Until that time, he will make as much money as he can. This is a very small market town and he has stated that a good chunk of revenue has come from the canadians that travel across the bridge for the games. No one knows WHY they do it, but they do. If you owned the Bills and could charge 4 x admission price by holding games in Toronto, wouldn’t you do it too? He knows a mark up like that would leave the stadium here empty. For whatever reason, Canadians are willing to pay it… so let them! whatever it takes to keep the Bills here for as long as possible works for me.
The “soccer” comment is a reference to what canadians call football. It’s kinda like how the say “I go to University” instead of “college”.
Whoa.
I think Patti has earned herself a spot in the BfloBlog commenter hall of fame. who else can give us “the buzz” of what’s happening around the Ralph?
Kevin,
I heard somewhere that OJ might have killed some people? Verify if you can.
That’s some hard hitting brand new news to me. Who knew that Canadians were the ones that called football soccer?
I’m with Kate.
And Kevin, maybe you’d actually understand Buffalo soccer if you, like, had season tickets or something.
take-no-prisoners commentary. insightful, and yes, even INSIDE information. having the originality and – dare i say – sass? – to compare ralph wilson to “elmer fudd.”
good post, anne.
good. post.
er patti not anne!
Patti, are you a professional moron, or just a gifted amateur?
Hey guys just so we are clear i am not here to bash… some of the brainiacs on here already are doing a smashing job… we all have a difference of opinion… makes us who we are… from the comments the guy who started this is probably from buffalo or at least was born and raised here then moved, and what ever happens to the Bills we cant really control, what the owners want they get… as for Canadians why bash on them they are fans just like us… it doesnt matter what you like or dont like… and by the way most of the European countries use the term FOOTBALL to describe soccer…
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Patti’s not the boss of me.
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Question to self: If Canadians refer to soccer as football, what do they call the CFL? What do they call MLS?
(Scratches head @ Patti and UnbelievableDisappointed).
I’ll be sure to check in regularly to see the latest Patti installment…
a welcome addition to the site!
Since we have all these cross-border explanations going on, can someone settle the bacon/canadian bacon confusion for me once and for all?
Patti? Unbelievably?
Are you the same person?
They call it “Baucone”. Not to get Patti mad — when Patti’s mad, nobody’s happy — it’s foutballe and souccre.
C’mon people. How can you call yourself a Buffalonian if you can’t spell like a Canadian??
Canada is really neat, it is filled with turtle meat, we all love you Can-a-daaaaaaa!
/really obscure references
Well well well…as an avid NY Giants fan I have one thing to say 2 rude buffalonians who screamed repeatedly for no reason “Giants suck” as I walked pregnant around w/ my Giants jersey before the Giants kicked their assess and to those ignoramants whose only truly valid complaint about my beloved Giants is “they don’t even play in New York!” is …well at least they play in the same friggin country, loser retards!!! GIANTS RULE!!!!
Ok Melissa seeing as this is about the Buffalo Bills, what left field are you coming from you crack nasty loser retard? Nobody asked you for your ignorant input so why don’t you leave your retarded opinions with you in your cockroach infested, filthy, smelly city? I know why because the RUDE folks of NYC can’t seem to keep their big, fat mouths to themselves. Ignoramous!
Obviously the Buffalo Bills are going to make phat money off of Canadians who come down here to spend their money, drink beer, and eat our chicken wings. Looks like its a win-win situation for Buffalonians. Canadians in their right mind sure would not want to go and get mugged in NYC! At least Buffalo is safe, unlike the drug dealing, bum capital of the world!
Looks like the Canadians can give two shits about the Giant faggots that represent your pighole of a city. Why don’t you keep your stank ass in your smelly city you live in its where you belong (or is it a jail cell for prostitution)–Buffalo is to good for you bitch! Keep on your own side of the state your kind is NOT welcomed in Buffalo!
Aren’t you glad you put your worthless two cents in? What’s it like to be cut down to size you ignorant big mouth?
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
….whoa.
“Sher” thing and buffalo has exactly what 2 offer? fat asses like u, no jobs to be found, the highest number of people relocating to another state to find a better life, miserable weather, a pathetic football team, and “the city of neighbors” like your angry, jealous self!! When 911 happened ill bet you were one of the fake asses who were all gung ho about helping the people there..what a joke…your ancestors most likely came to the us via ellis island…nyc is the greatest city in the us but what would an uneducated bum like u know? Still holding a grudge for your old superbowl loss i guess!! heres a tissue, sher…
In case you forgot melissa, your team played a game in London last year. That’s in England, over by Europe, across the Atlantic Ocean, not even North America! I feel sorry for the man who drunkenly put his penis in you.
“The stupid! It burns!”
This is awesome.
Thye played ONE game in England, genius!!
Oh my. This is approaching thread of the year status.
lol
/I normally wouldn’t do that, but I think this thread needed it
Holy God this is insane. Anymore crazy parties yet to be heard from? – And 289, I’m guessing turkey baster.
“rude buffalonians who screamed repeatedly for no reason “Giants suck†as I walked pregnant around w/ my Giants jersey before the Giants kicked their assess and to those ignoramants whose only truly valid complaint about my beloved Giants is “they don’t even play in New York!—
That is what you get for walking around The Ralph looking for the smoking section with a Virginia Slim dangling out from in between your disgustingly long and fake fingernails, while your other hand tries to puff up your Bon Jovi-esque perm with the heavy hair spray, telling your mook husband ,in the track suit half unzipped with his chest hair puffing out around his gold medallion, “It’s too damp for my hair to stay up”. You do suck and maybe you should stay away from Jersey while your at it Adrianna, Chris might wanna get some H if you go back into the city.
Can we sticky this post or something? I had now idea that BFLOBLOG was such a magnet for Buffalo haters. Keep up the good work, Kevin.