Wilson Makes the Right Call
Many Buffalo Bills fans have been concerned that the Bills would soon be shipping more home games to Toronto. Bills owner Ralph Wilson finally commented on the situation and made the right call.
According to the Associated Press, Wilson stated that he wants to wait “two or three years” before making a decision.
“I don’t know whether they’ll get another game or not. We’ll have to see how it works out up there,” Wilson said.
Just from a business stand point this is the right call as there are several problems with the games.
Rogers Communications is the company that the Bills reached a contract with to host the games in Toronto.
The problem is that Rogers Communications saw dollar signs, which is bad as they over priced tickets as the average price for tickets was just under $200 with very little seats costing under $100.
That is outrageous as even in the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium cost from $59-$125 dollars per a seat per a game.
The organizers for the Toronto games have reduced prices by 17 percent, but that is still higher than the Cowboys.
Due to these high prices the games never sold out as there were tons of empty seats for the Bills preseason game and they had difficulty selling out the regular season game last year.
Also, the games never felt like home games as they were held indoors and there was a huge contingency of Miami Dolphin fans at the game.
The problem with larger cities is that many fans have different favorite football teams, which is the problem with Los Angeles.
Simply, Wilson has to wait to see if the organizers will have a easier time selling out the Bills game in Toronto the next couple of years for if they have trouble again then the games are a flop.
That means when the contract is up the new one for the Bills will not net as much as last time and that means the Bills would be better off playing the games at home.
In the end the games will flop, because Rogers Communications has over estimated the demand for the National Football Leauge.
Just because it is the NFL doesn’t meam people will come to the game is droves as people do have to pay bills and these are trying times, but Rogers Communications seems to forget that.