I think that if the Raiders game had been in Toronto I would be less against it. Early in the year, against a nondivision opponent.

Shame on them for doing this. Never was in support of it and don’t think it serves any benefit to the team.

I think had the Bills been 8-4 coming in, beaten the dolphins, the whole damn thing would have been a success. Actions speak louder than words.

Undoubtedly the idiotic sky-rocket ticket prices and idea in the first place, were Ralph being greedy, but the product stunk. 3 pts??? Terrible. Not one marketable player in the game. Next year this game should be in the first 4 weeks of the season, and if Goodel wants to sell it, put the thing on National TV and pin em against a sexy team. That’s the only way you are going to make the game appealing to Toronto.

Cause otherwise – who cares, right? I totally agree with the concept of trying to find innovative ways of increasing revenue for a small market team in order to compete with the bigger market teams. If Wilson simply pockets the money then he’s simply disrespectful and doesn’t deserve such a great fan base. If he doesn’t re-invest a portion into bettering this team then he’d better never complain about being a small market team again because he’ll be a hypocrite.

I am a Montrealer that owns 4 season tickets at the Ralph. I was very supportive of the 8 game series not because I want the team to move (far from it) I was hoping that this series was going to solidify the franchise in Buffalo. I figured that the new buzz in Toronto would create some new fans that inevitably would venture down to Buffalo to catch a game or two during the regular season. There is no other place like it, the Ralph is incredible! The fans are great, they know their football, they are complete die-hards and most of all they are LOYAL. There is no way that Toronto could replicate that experience so I figured the 8 game series could only help strengthen the Bills in Buffalo. When I saw the absurd pricing levels that were being proposed I opted not to encourage such greed. Unfortunately I now believe that the whole experiment might have an adverse effect, it was a complete and utter joke last Sunday. There seemed to be so many empty seats and the seats that actually had people sitting in them were predominantly wearing Dolphins apparel!

My roommate went to the game and said the fans were pathetic (which we could all tell from TV). He said the crowd was about 50% Bills fans, 20% of the people simply didn’t care and 30% of the crowd were actually cheering for the Dolphins. After talking to some people he discovered that most of the Fin fans, weren’t actually Dolphin fans but were cheering for Miami because Ricky Williams played in Toronto and they all liked him. If Buffalo played a team other than Miami, it probably would have been a more pro-Bills crowd.

I’m not sure anyone should have expected a great atmosphere. With the ridiculous prices, the supposed inability to tailgate in the area, a lame duck Bills team, a rather boring Dolphins team and a non-NFL city, I can’t envision this ever having the atmosphere the organizers had hoped….

You’ve got to give the Canucks that.