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Bills' tickets cost more in Toronto than Buffalo

DAVID NAYLOR

From Thursday's Globe and Mail

Latest comment posted at 1:48 PM EST 12/05/08

Despite the price tag, there is little doubt Canada's first regular-season NFL game will be a sellout ...Read the full article

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  1. Eric B from Ottawa, Canada writes: I bet this experience doesn't even last the 5 full years...give it 2 or 3 years, and some Toronto consortium will make the Buffalo ownership an offer for outright ownership that will be too good to pass-up on. I don't see any problems with a relocation since the NFL is well run and logical, unlike the NHL which refuses to put another team in SouthOnt preferring the hockey hotbeds of Nashville, Atlanta, Miami and next to come Kansas City.

    Obviously Toronto could not sustain that level of ticket prices for 8-10 games a year, but they could probably sell at about the same level as the Pats until a bigger stadium is built.
  2. Carl Baldin from Canada writes: Comical......Torontonians have this fixation that they must have an NFL team. Face it, LA and other big American cities will get a team before Torana. Torana....You may feel you are the centre of the Universe in Canada and desire to be an American city, but the yanks couldn't care less about you.

    To pay that kind of money to watch a boring game and team is a joke. The CFL is a much better game. Support your existing team (The Argo's) and stop trying to be American!
  3. Terry Terry from Brantford, Canada writes: That because in Buffalo there's a sucker born every minute, while in Toronto it's one every 15 seconds.
  4. dan vanman from vancouver, Canada writes: Once again...and I will try to speak sklowly for those in the back. The NFL won't be expanding to Toronto.

    1-because they have no desire to expand to a Canadian city before the number 2 TV market in the country has a team (LA)

    2-the CFL is the best anti-trust proof for the NFL. How can you be convicted of being a monopoly that bullies when you have the CFL, and you haven't killed it? Heck, they even let the CFL try to expand into the USA.

    3- because the Toronto sports fan, while passionate and numerous, has shown time and again to have a short attention span. The Bills just aren't that good, though they are improving.

    No, the NFL and the Bills are doing exactly what they said they were doing. Expanding their market reach to get more money. Feel free to fill their coffers ( the amount paid is staggering for the number of games), but the arrogant proclamations of the CFL's death are greatly exaggerated.
  5. F E from Ottawa, Canada writes: Toronto seems to have not learned anything from the Raptors?
  6. S G from Canada writes: Carl and Terry - jealousy doesn't become you. Now run along, crawl back under your rock and leave this board to NFL fans or someone with something intelligent to say.
  7. S G from Canada writes: F E - what the hell are you talking about? Raptors sell out every game and this year in playoffs had one of the loudest crowds I've ever seen in the NBA. That team is an unqualified success - what exactly is the lesson?
  8. slapdash dapoint from Canada writes: "This is a premium event" - someone help me: do you go to school to learn to pump this crap out, or do you drink the loo-aid to swallow garbage like this?

    i'll be embarrassed if anyone i know pays for a ticket to this. more respectable to see "spice girls vs. miley cyrus on ice" with those blinking spring antenna things on your head
  9. Carl Baldin from Canada writes: SG.....a guy slinging mud to other commentators herein, yet he can't even spell his name.

    You represent the ignorance many Amarican wannabe's living in Torana smell of. You are a fine example of why zoo's exist.
  10. Popeye Dillon from North Vancouver, Canada writes: Well oh my what a surprise. What a bunch of suckers. They're the Buffalo Bills they'll never be the Toronto Gills! If you want to help fiance a new stadium for Buffalo go right ahead. Mexico City will be the first franchise outside of the USA after LA gets one.
  11. A non-Imus from Canada writes: At those prices no doubt the seats at the RogersDome will be filled with suits. Someone warn the Bills they had better be prepared to pump in some crowd noise. Otherwise, it truly will be just a neutral site for the visitors.
  12. Piet F from Canada writes: I really hope this fails. Otherwise - I will lose the very last piece of respect I have for the Toronto sports fan.

    $200 for 4 hours of boredom? Go grab some Argos season tickets instead and realise that what's been on your doorstep for years is actually a very good and entertaining product.

    Certainly this won't be sustainable. Game one will likely be a sell-out but if they keep these ticket prices up, surely it will fail in the long run. Here's hoping it does.
  13. Tim Cares from Canada writes: They charge what the market will bear. If the tickets don't sell, they will lower the prices. But they will because, hey, it's American.
  14. Yourname 2 from Canada writes: Headline: Buffalo Bills ring up Toronto Tills!
  15. S G from Canada writes: Excellent come back Carl....that zoo joke is hilarious. Now tell your grade 8 teacher to give you one designed for adults.
  16. Adrian BO from Thornhill, Canada writes: Oh so now Toronto is a world class sports town because it wants to see the Buffalo Bills.
    Get serious Mr Montgomery !
    A world class sports town starts by having some winning teams. Right now unless you make an exception for our young TFC team all the rest are a bunch of overpaid losers starting with the Leafs passing through the Raptors and ending with the Jays.
    World-class eh!!
  17. Richard James from Canada writes: "Bills tickets cost more in Toronto than Buffalo"

    Well, duh! That's why they're having games there!!!!!!! Hands up anyone who thought they'd be less. No one? Didn't think so.

    The Globe is a great newspaper but that's a very weak headline. Perhaps "Bills-Toronto tickets highest in NFL" or 3rd or 7th or 28th etc would have been more pertinent. That tickets in Toronto would be more than in Buffalo was a given
  18. John Doucette from manotick, Canada writes: Bills ownership simply realize that this is necessary marketing for Toronto! Toronto folks are conditioned to pay premium prices for everything 2nd rate; the Leafs, their Mervish Culture of old Broadway shows, American Idol (Canada) tickets, etc. Its Toronto Normal!
  19. Carl Baldin from Canada writes: SG - I bet you got beat up a lot in school.
  20. Moose Lion from Canada writes: Yeah Carl, it is pretty comical.

    Life's tough in Toronto being so stupid.

    I mean, we're going to be watching NFL games with tickets that we most likely won't have to pay for out of our own pockets and get to drink free beer and eat free food on corporate tabs (even though we could easily afford the tickets and food for the next 100 years if we had to).

    Please, save us from ourselves!! You must show us the way.
  21. Carl Baldin from Canada writes: Moose....my final post - The CFL is a more entertaining game and Torontonians should support the Argo's. If you are fortunate enough to get free tickets to the Bills- great, I am truly happy for you. But football is a working mans sport and for those people who want to see the lesser game (NFL), that is a lot of money to pay for a ticket.

    But in all fairness, look at the price of hockey tickets across Canada - outragous. Again, society puts too much of an 'importance factor' on these over prices sports (except the CFL - ticket prices are reasonable)....but we are all free to spend our money where we see fit.

    Enjoy your $180 seat(s) to a 7-3 NFL Exhibition football game!
  22. S G from Canada writes: Guaranteed carl has never been to an NFL game. But then ignorance is bliss - which is very evident on this board.

    I have no problem with the CFL - go to games every year - but the NFL is different, its the world's premier football league and the atmosphere is great.
  23. Lou Bix from Canada writes: I will watch on free tv.
  24. B G from Toronto, Canada writes: Free TV? My monthly Rogers bill costs more than a ticket to the game.
  25. CD W from Canada writes: TORONTO SUCKERS, or navel gazers. Go pick.
  26. Port Credit Bill from Canada writes: I think peopel forget that the Argos are a primary beneficary of teh Bills coming to town. Their season ticket base has risen dramatically and the more people get to watch both games live many will realize that the CFL isn't as bad as many posters in Toronto think.

    The players are better in the NFL - granted, but the players in the NHL are better than junior but I'd personally prefer watching the world juniors. No whiny millionaires just kids playing the game they love for a chance to cash-in.

    CFL players harken back to the days when you use to work side by side with your sporting idols.
  27. poida smith from Canada writes: dan vanman from vancouver, Canada writes: Once again...and I will try to speak sklowly for those in the back. The NFL won't be expanding to Toronto. "the CFL is the best anti-trust proof for the NFL. How can you be convicted of being a monopoly that bullies when you have the CFL, and you haven't killed it? Heck, they even let the CFL try to expand into the USA" sorry danny boy............pretty presumptuous of you to put the CFL in the same league as the NFL, especially from a business perspective.........the CFL is not professional football, it is semi-pro at best even from a Canadian perspective and here is no way Americans, certainly the US government would clasify it as anybut but amateur. The US "allowed" the CFL into Canada because a) unlike Canada (remember the WFL), they practice and believe in free enterprise, and b) every American, dead and alive and their grandmother knew the CFL, a product that can barely survive in Canada without charity ownership was a no brainer to fail quicktime, which of course it did. This is a fact. These are facts, CFL fans don't like facts. The NFL game is going to sell out, that's a fact, the market will decide, just like it decides every year in Toronto that the Argos and CFL are not worth watching other than the old 25,000 or so that show up at Ted's place, most of them on the $2 grocery chain promotional tickets, many of which can be found out in the parking lot. Complain and whine all you want about Toronto and the NFL.........it won't change a thing.........but it is very entertaining to read ithese posts and get a glimpse into the works of the inner mind of the CFL fan..........
  28. My Humble Opinion from Canada writes: I wouldn't pay 1 dollar to watch crappy nfl football. IT SUCKS

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