Buffalo Bills fans are bashing \u201coutrageous\u201d ticket prices to see a home game at the team\u2019s flashy new Highmark Stadium, where the cheapest seats cost an eye-watering $700.<\/p>\n
Bills Mafia from as far as Florida, Tennessee and Texas flocked to Orchard Park, New York, this week for the shiny new stadium\u2019s ribbon-cutting ceremony<\/a> \u2013 but many said they fear they won\u2019t be able to afford a ticket.<\/p>\n \u201cTicket prices are outrageous,\u201d one Bills fan told WIVB News 4<\/a>, Buffalo\u2019s CBS affiliate.<\/p>\n Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen calls a play during an AFC Wild Card playoff matchup on Jan. 11, 2026. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n As of Friday morning, the cheapest available for the Bills\u2019 first regular season home game on Sept. 17 was $702.10 on Ticketmaster, The Post found.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you have a family with one kid or two kids \u2014 four tickets \u2014 that\u2019s a lot of money,\u201d said a loyal Bills fan who was visiting the stadium all the way from Florida.<\/p>\n Another agreed, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s scary when you got a family of four or five and you\u2019ve got to pay these kind of prices for tickets.\u201d<\/p>\n Many Bills devotees worried that they might never see a game in the new stadium \u2014 for which taxpayers paid $850 million<\/a>. It will be the home of the NFL franchise for the next 30 years.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to be impossible, almost, to get in here,\u201d one fan told WIVB News 4.<\/p>\n Another lamented: \u201cI probably will never see a game here.\u201d<\/p>\n Buffalo Bills fans are upset over the \u201coutrageous\u201d ticket prices at the new NFL stadium, with one saying, \u201cIt\u2019s going to be impossible, almost, to get in here.\u201d USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n The sky-high prices are reportedly being driven by the new stadium unveiling \u2013 a $2.1 billion, 60,000-seat project that broke ground in June 2023 \u2013 and heightened Bills fervor.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s because of the new stadium,\u201d Nick Giammusso, chief executive of VIPTix, a ticket reseller, told WIVB News 4. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a new stadium with demand from the Bills playing really well, and Josh Allen, and then you\u2019ve got the away teams like Kansas City, New England, who fetch a higher price.\u201d<\/p>\n Blue and red fireworks explode during the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new Highmark Stadium on Tuesday. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n The new Highmark Stadium was a $2.1 billion, 60,000-seat project that broke ground in June 2023. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you really want to get into the stadium, the pre-season games are attractive price-wise,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re talking $100 for Pittsburgh.\u201d<\/p>\n 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\u2019s largest stadium snow-melt system, according to ESPN.<\/a><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bills fans are bashing \u201coutrageous\u201d ticket prices to see a home game at the team\u2019s flashy new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[1807,28,349,1052,99,13092],"class_list":["post-729062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-business","tag-nfl","tag-prices","tag-sports","tag-tickets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}