Bills fans dealing with costly reality of new $2.2 billion stadium with complaints rolling in after debut
Bills fans have been blindsided by their own team.Fans paid thousands of dollars to renew their season tickets with PSLs for this upcoming season at the brand-new Highmark Stadium, with the promise of the glitz that comes with it.The problem is some fans are dealing with obstructions blocking views of the full field.Fans have been irritated by stair railings and glass attached to them, which appear to be at least three feet tall, according to first-hand accounts by fans who spoke to The Post and were at Saturday’s practice at Highmark Stadium, which drew over 50,000 fans. One fan, Melissa Wroblewski, said she was “assured” that her new season tickets would be free of obstruction, though railings are in her way. Wroblewski shows in pictures on X that she was shown a model of what the seats would look like that are completely different than what she was actually given.“We asked if there was going to be an obstruction multiple times because it was a concern,” Wroblewski said.“We were told that the image was just a rendering and there would be no obstruction.”Front-row seats even in the upper sections had Personal Seat License fees starting in the low four figures.
Others were forced to give up their old seats entirely thanks to rising costs that are 500 percent higher than before when they played at their old stadium.“My previous season tickets in the last stadium were in a lower section and were more expensive, and they first tried to sell me my old seats, which would have cost $5,000 per seat for the PSL and $2,500 per seat for the season,” one fan, Kevin Kruger, told The Post.“So my starting cost to be a season ticket holder in my old seats would be $15,000.”Another fan, who used to be in the lower bowl 100s level, was priced out of his premium seats thanks to the pricey PSLs.“In the old stadium, I was paying less than $2,500 for those seats with no PSL,” the Bills fan said.
“They were trying to show me what comparable seats would be ...