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Speaker 1: that each team for a postseason, right, So this is

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Speaker 1: a day when they start voting on stuff they've been

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Speaker 1: talking about for two or three days, and one of

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Speaker 1: the votes has already gone in the way that we've

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Speaker 1: been talking about about overtime, both teams getting guaranteed a possession. Now.

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Speaker 1: Much was made of some recent social media posts by

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Speaker 1: Stefan Digg's brother. You know Stefan Digg's brother, Treyvon down

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Speaker 1: in Dallas, who went to the Pro Bowl A forgetting

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Speaker 1: nine ten picks as a rookie. He said, oh, I've

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Speaker 1: always wanted to play on the same team as my

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Speaker 1: brother in the NFL. This then and the other it

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Speaker 1: would be great. Josh Allen chimes in and says no,

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Speaker 1: And you know, there've been some other things whereas Stefan

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Speaker 1: has kind of tweeted out that, you know, the offseason's

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Speaker 1: been crazy. When Tyree Hill came into the division with

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Speaker 1: the trade from Kansas City to Miami, he was saying,

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Speaker 1: what's going on? So people were trying to read into

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Speaker 1: what Stefan was tweeting and speculating that perhaps since he's

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Speaker 1: only set to make fourteen million dollars, his pay is

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Speaker 1: woefully behind the curve in terms of the top receivers

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Speaker 1: in the league who are now making just about double that.

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Speaker 1: He's playing for half off right, So you know, basically

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Speaker 1: where does it go. We'll have to wait and see.

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Speaker 1: I think the important thing that Brandon Being said yesterday

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Speaker 1: with Stefan Diggs. We have a great relationship. If he

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Speaker 1: has a problem with anything, he knows he can call me,

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Speaker 1: and I know I can do the same thing. And

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Speaker 1: it doesn't sound as though any talk about a contract

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Speaker 1: extension is on the front burner for this year, and

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Speaker 1: I think it's because, quite frankly, as Brandon said, they

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Speaker 1: have no money. They don't have any money, so they're

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Speaker 1: I mean, they had to They had to just squeeze

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Speaker 1: Ryan Bates under to match the offer sheet. You still

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Speaker 1: have a rookie pool that you got to take care

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Speaker 1: of and stay under the cap. So the thought of

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Speaker 1: extending Diggs, even if you found a way to lower

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Speaker 1: his cap number this year and create some space, it

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Speaker 1: sounded very much like being did not want to entertain

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Speaker 1: that this offseason. So he's I would venture to guess,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just guessing that he's given Stefan and his

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Speaker 1: agent assurances, Look, we know your money is behind the

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Speaker 1: market right now and grossly, so we didn't anticipate a

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Speaker 1: jumping this much. But let's just get through this year.

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Speaker 1: Let's win a super Bowl and then we'll address your

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Speaker 1: contract next of one of these things too. When they draft,

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Speaker 1: when they traded for Stefan Diggs and they gave up

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Speaker 1: you know what they gave up to get him, and

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Speaker 1: a lot of people said, wow, the Bills, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: they didn't. You know, they kind of cooled on those

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Speaker 1: things where the Bills got the lesser end of the

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Speaker 1: deal because the Vikings did so well with Jefferson. The

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Speaker 1: beauty of the deal was Stefan Diggs four years left

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Speaker 1: on his contract at about ten or eleven twelve million

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Speaker 1: dollars a year now his first year if you go back,

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Speaker 1: they gave him a boost in that first year right away.

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Speaker 1: I mean they said, here, take your playing for this.

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Speaker 1: Here take this. So they've kept him as happy as

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Speaker 1: they could were allowed to do in the years leading

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Speaker 1: up to this. But that was part of the thing

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Speaker 1: of the enticement for the Bills to make that deal.

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Speaker 1: Not only was Stefan a great player, but he had

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Speaker 1: just signed a big extension that, by the very nature

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Speaker 1: of football in the NFL in this day and age,

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Speaker 1: was going to be obsolete by the end of it,

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Speaker 1: which we see now it is. But the fact the

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Speaker 1: Bills got Stefen Diggs as cheaply as they did, made

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Speaker 1: all those draft it was fine. That deal was That's

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Speaker 1: what made it. And plus he came in he was

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Speaker 1: a superstar receiver. So that's why that deal when the

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Speaker 1: Bills traded for Stefan dig wasn't it not only to

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Speaker 1: use a great player, but he was cheap And that's

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Speaker 1: part of the relatively speaking, relatively speaking, and that's why

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Speaker 1: the Bill, the deal for the Bills was so good,

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Speaker 1: and I said it then, so they gave up three

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Speaker 1: draft picks I believed to get him a first, a fourth,

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Speaker 1: and a sixth or something like that something, And people said, huh.

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Speaker 1: But man, I had seen enough of him to know

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Speaker 1: that he was an elite receiver. He was just in

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Speaker 1: an offense that kind of split the difference between him

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Speaker 1: and Adam Feelings. So it was kind of a one

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Speaker 1: one a situation. So here he was unquestionably the number one,

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Speaker 1: and you saw when he was the true number one.

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Speaker 1: Without you know, a guy of his caliber alongside him,

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Speaker 1: he could be truly dominant. And we've seen that, I

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Speaker 1: mean a couple of hundred catch seasons, are you kidding me? So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's where that's at. Speaking of receivers, Brandon Being also

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Speaker 1: addressed the Tyreek Hill trade, with Tyreek Hill now in

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Speaker 1: the division, and he did call it a strong move

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Speaker 1: on the part of the Dolphins. He believes that the

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Speaker 1: combination of Jalen Wattle and Tyreek Hill is going to

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Speaker 1: be a problem for their defense and every other defense

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Speaker 1: they play. And it's hard to disagree with him. When

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Speaker 1: you got one guy that runs four two nine, another

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Speaker 1: guy that runs four three eight. There's no debating that.

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Speaker 1: So he said, Yeah, it was kind of weird, he said,

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Speaker 1: because you're happy that he's no longer playing for Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: but then all of a sudden he's in your division.

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Speaker 1: You see him twice at least. Yeah, So but I

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Speaker 1: would say the same thing a lot of Bills fans said,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, the Chiefs aren't that as good as they were.

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Speaker 1: And I think most people thought were we're in the

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Speaker 1: ballpark with the Chiefs. Now. We beat him once last year,

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Speaker 1: lost to him and had him beat with thirteen seconds

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Speaker 1: ago the whole nine yards, and and you know, people

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Speaker 1: just think that that we're already at least on that

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Speaker 1: level with Kansas City now. And then do you take

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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill away from them, and you think, okay, you

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Speaker 1: can almost push them to the side mentally. Now they're

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Speaker 1: still a really good team and they're gonna draft. They

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Speaker 1: got more draft picks than anybody in the league this year,

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Speaker 1: so they're gonna get they're gonna stay elite. But you

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Speaker 1: get that feeling, hey, without Tyreek they're not that chief Well,

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Speaker 1: there'll be an adjustment period for them, and maybe that's

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Speaker 1: the difference that you need, right And then you send

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Speaker 1: Tyreek to Miami, and everybody thinks Miami's better. But he

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Speaker 1: can run as far as he wants. They can't get

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Speaker 1: it to him like the Chiefs can with Mahomes, So

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Speaker 1: that we'll see. But's that move is a strong move

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Speaker 1: from Miami, no question about it, because that now you're

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Speaker 1: thinking a lot differently about the back end of your

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Speaker 1: defense than you were before. Before we go to break,

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Speaker 1: we want to let you know that over the last

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours, you've undoubtedly heard and read a lot

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Speaker 1: about the new bill Stadium. Why don't you tell us

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Speaker 1: what you've heard or read about the new Bills Stadium

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Speaker 1: that you like the most, What appeals to you most

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Speaker 1: about the plans that you see in place for Buffalo's

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Speaker 1: new stadium set to open Week one of the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty sixth season eight oh three oh five fifty one

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty or he can

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Speaker 1: give us a shout on the tweet sheet at one

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Steve and I take a break here. When

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Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna play, hopefully. Some comments from

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Speaker 1: head coach Sean McDermott, who was also addressing the media

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Speaker 1: town at the owner's meetings will cover some topics with

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Speaker 1: him when we return here on One Bills Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome

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Speaker 1: back to one Bills Live. Chris Brown Steve to ask

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Speaker 1: you with you here on a Tuesday. And as we

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Speaker 1: mentioned at the top of the show, the fl Competition

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Speaker 1: Committee presented to the ownership the amendments to overtime and

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Speaker 1: it looks like it was approved for postseason only. That

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Speaker 1: will allow both teams an opportunity to possess the ball

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Speaker 1: in overtime in the postseason, so you know, rewind back

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Speaker 1: to the Divisional playoff under these new rules, Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: and the Bills get a possession after Patrick Mahomes throws

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Speaker 1: a touchdown pass to Travis Kelsey in overtime. That's right,

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Speaker 1: And you would like to think. Here's the thing though,

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Speaker 1: do you go down there, you score the touchdown, just

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Speaker 1: like would then you go, oh, let's go for two

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Speaker 1: like this. That's how McDermott does it, go for two

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Speaker 1: with a little pinky and the forefinger, the horns, the yeah,

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Speaker 1: go get them. You could, you could, and that would

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Speaker 1: win the game. I don't know. Here's the problem. Every

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Speaker 1: time you do that, if the other team match, you know, well,

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Speaker 1: here we go again. Now, yes, but now what Basically, well,

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Speaker 1: it says sudden death after why don't you just skip

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Speaker 1: all this other stuff and just go to sudden death then,

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Speaker 1: like we've been doing for teen years. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: I'll say it again. In the regular season, they should

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Speaker 1: just let it lie. Let it lie. Ties. The tie

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Speaker 1: is a tie. And I know people don't like that,

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Speaker 1: But here's the reason why I say that. Two reasons. First,

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Speaker 1: one is player safety. You don't want these at the

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Speaker 1: highest level of intensity of the entire game. When the

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Speaker 1: guys are as tired as they can be in overtime,

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Speaker 1: that's when you're gonna get somebody blown up. Then the

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Speaker 1: second reason is this, at the end of the season,

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Speaker 1: if you've got like three teams that are pretty good

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Speaker 1: and they all have a tie on their record in

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Speaker 1: the conference, that permutation will include. Now any team within

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Speaker 1: a game of those guys wins and losses, is in

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Speaker 1: the hunt for the playoffs or a tie. Guy suddenly well,

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Speaker 1: in the regular season, I don't have a problem with it,

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Speaker 1: because then you've got three more fan bases who you know,

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Speaker 1: you're telling me there's a chance, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: And I just think it makes for a more interesting

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Speaker 1: last month of the season. It might. And while you're

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Speaker 1: telling all those teams as a chance, you're telling me

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Speaker 1: I'm going to have a migraine because I already have.

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Speaker 1: I already have enough trouble with determining the tie breaking

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Speaker 1: scenarios at times. Now you're gonna throw ties into the equation,

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Speaker 1: which will bring in more potential scenarios, and that's just

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Speaker 1: gonna make my head hurt. So selfishly, I would say

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Speaker 1: no to the regular season ties, just being that with

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Speaker 1: zero overtime, but it wouldn't shock me if we get

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Speaker 1: to a point where they say, in the interest of

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Speaker 1: players safety, regular season games end in regulation, win, loss, tie,

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter that it ends, Yes, and I will overtime.

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Speaker 1: And I'm kind of especially if they go to eighteen games, right,

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of I think I could see that scenario

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Speaker 1: happening that you suggest. I'm for it because of the chaos.

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Speaker 1: You know, just what you said, I want the chaos

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Speaker 1: at the end of the season. When you got a

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Speaker 1: month to go, there's still thirty of the thirty two

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Speaker 1: teams that got a shot because of the ties and

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Speaker 1: the conference. That to me is fun. And you get

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Speaker 1: down to the last two weeks and twenty eight teams

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Speaker 1: have a chance at getting in, and the you know,

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Speaker 1: and week eighteen or the regular season, you've got twenty

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Speaker 1: five or six teams that think they can get in

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Speaker 1: for the final fourteen spots. I just think that would

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Speaker 1: be awesome, awesome for the league. I suppose, I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, like I said, I think if we get

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Speaker 1: to an eighteenth game, I think they're gonna try to

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Speaker 1: trim back somewhere. In regular season games, it may very

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Speaker 1: well be regulation only, no overtime, regardless of whether the

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Speaker 1: game is tied. We're talking about the just change stuff.

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Speaker 1: Somebody chimed in on my timeline. He's right. The new stadium,

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Speaker 1: you know, we talked about having a brewery in there,

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Speaker 1: maybe distilleries, cigar lounge. Oh wow, that's what I'm talking

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Speaker 1: That might be tough because it is a state owned facility,

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Speaker 1: non smoking facility. It's a state owned facility, and indoors

641
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 1: you are prohibited from well it's not smoking. Well you

642
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 1: can't smoke in the bowl here now outside, but yeah,

643
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: we'd have a place you know a designated area is

644
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: behind glass, Smokey the Bill's humidor I got to talk

645
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Speaker 1: to somebody about that. Yeah, you may want to put

646
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 1: that in early. Uh. We're asking you at eight oh

647
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Speaker 1: three oh five fifty today, with what you've heard and

648
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 1: read about the new Bill Stadium, what appeals to you

649
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,879
Speaker 1: the most. So we go to the phones at eight

650
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 1: three five fifty and we lead off with John and Hamburg.

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Speaker 1: What do you have for us? John, you're on one

652
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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. I have a two word question for you, guys. Yeah,

653
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Speaker 1: why grass? Okay, so you've seen the reports, Sean McDermott. Well,

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Speaker 1: I've got a longer answer for you, John. Yes, there

655
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: are reports that it will in fact be a grass field,

656
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,800
Speaker 1: and the reason for that, at least from what we've learned,

657
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: is player safety. Number one. Statistics prove that there are

658
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: fewer injuries on grass than turf. That's number one. Number two,

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Speaker 1: with the technologies, the advanced technologies, you no longer have

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00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: to worry about a field surface freezing over, even in

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Speaker 1: the confines of Buffalo. With the winters that we have here,

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Speaker 1: Green Bay has this grass field system where beneath the

663
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: field are heated coils that run the length of the field.

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Speaker 1: It keeps the ground surface temperature under the playing field

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Speaker 1: at a year round temperature of at least fifty degrees.

666
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Speaker 1: This prevents not only the ground from freezing, but it

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Speaker 1: also allows the grass to continue to grow year round.

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00:36:56,160 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 1: So safer playing surface and a surface that you don't

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Speaker 1: have to worry about it being compromised by the weather,

670
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: the seasons, the elements because of the advanced technology they

671
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: can put in place. So Cargo's got that as well. Yeah,

672
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 1: it ultimately made sense to do it because the technology

673
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: allowed for you to have it despite being in a

674
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Speaker 1: cold weather city like Buffalo. So I hope that helps

675
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: answer your question as to why it looks like it

676
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 1: is in fact going to be a grass field. And

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00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: we've seen coach McDermott here as often as possible practice

678
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: on the grass field, to the point where he would

679
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: have the grounds crew here cover the grass practice field

680
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: with a tarp if there was snow, and then pull

681
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: the tarp back so they could practice on a grass

682
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: field as opposed to practicing inside on turf. It's safer

683
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 1: and more natural. It's just, you know, it's just better.

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Speaker 1: The new turfs and new surfaces are nice. They're much

685
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Speaker 1: better than you know, the ones that I played on

686
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Speaker 1: at times. I mean that I played on the astrodome floor,

687
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: the first ever surface, artificial surface that anybody could play on.

688
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: I think it was still the same surface when I

689
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 1: played on in nineteen eighty five from when it was

690
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: built in sixteen something like that. It was. It was no,

691
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,320
Speaker 1: it was not concrete. That first surface was dirt underneath

692
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: that green. They didn't line it and they didn't do anything,

693
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: and it was you know, if you you know, it

694
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: was like it was a little yeah, they rolled it.

695
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: It was flat and smooth, except that there was you know,

696
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: like waves in it, right didn't and then also you know,

697
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: they put the astronome in and they got you know,

698
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: they got a football stadium there. It was built for baseball. Obviously,

699
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: they built to put the football team in there. And

700
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:43,799
Speaker 1: they couldn't get the wires from the coaches headsets all

701
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: the way to the press box. Just trench out across

702
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 1: the forty five yard line. Put the wires in the

703
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 1: forty five yard line, wrap AstroTurf around two by fours,

704
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,720
Speaker 1: pound them right down into the trench and pressto chango

705
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,919
Speaker 1: there you go. Wow, so that was yeah, so much

706
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: for players safety back then there you go, so that

707
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: and it was a different world. Wow. But and with

708
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: all the surfaces they have now, some of them, and

709
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: it's interesting, it's it's hard to all those new surfaces

710
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 1: are great. You go out, you go in, you come

711
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 1: in the field house on a game day that you

712
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: haven't done it for because of COVID. But it used

713
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: to be people come into the field house on a

714
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: game day, they'd open it up and they you know,

715
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: do stuff in there. And you go in there and

716
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,879
Speaker 1: it feels so nice and rubbery to play around on.

717
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: And I get it. It is. It's nice to walk

718
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: around on. It feels good. But there's a fine line

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Speaker 1: between being so good that when you put your foot

720
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Speaker 1: in the ground there is no give. It sticks. And

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Speaker 1: that's why we see then that we've had on grass

722
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:49,320
Speaker 1: there is a consistent yet not not you know, bone

723
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Speaker 1: crunchingly stoppage. You know, bone crunchingly grippy can't handle it,

724
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:59,320
Speaker 1: and so they like that better's and the surface companies,

725
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 1: you know, they work with it and they know it's

726
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 1: a fine balance and it has to do with the

727
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 1: mixture of how they put it together and all of that,

728
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: but it's hard to get it right. And then once

729
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,320
Speaker 1: you get it right, once it's installed, after a while

730
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: it's not right. Yeah, And so it's hard. And to

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Speaker 1: a certain extent, you can thank the European soccer clubs

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Speaker 1: for these advanced technologies because their seasons typically run August

733
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Speaker 1: to May, and you know in northern England the weather

734
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 1: gets pretty nasty in January and February when they're trying

735
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: to play soccer over there. So these advanced technologies, they

736
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Speaker 1: all play on grass. Nobody plays on turf over there.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, it's an abomination. You don't do it right.

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Speaker 1: And they have these heated coil systems under the fields

739
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,399
Speaker 1: to keep the temperature year round for the surface at

740
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 1: about fifty degrees and because of that it allows the

741
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:56,320
Speaker 1: ground to not only avoid freezing, but more importantly allows

742
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Speaker 1: for the grass to grow year round no matter what

743
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: season it is. Yeah, and they had had it was

744
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: a big deal of years ago where they were FIFA

745
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: finally said you can use this certain type of artificial surface.

746
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 1: But you know, the purists are like, nah, let's just

747
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: keep it at grass. Sometimes they weave in artificial with

748
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: natural if they continue to experiment with it. But you're right, Brownie,

749
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 1: it was the Europeans who had to play on sock

750
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: on grass and figure out a way to do it

751
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: year round. Is kind of the breakthrough technology. You can't

752
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: where it came from. All right, we gotta take a

753
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 1: break here. When we come back, we'll get to some

754
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 1: of your thoughts on the tweet sheet and continue to

755
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,879
Speaker 1: take your phone calls at a three five fifty. You've

756
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: read and seen a lot about the new stadium project.

757
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 1: What appeals to you the most? Let us know. We're

758
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 1: back with more here on One Bill's Live, presented by

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00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome

760
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown Steve tasks with

761
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: you here on a Tuesday, and we said we'd go

762
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet, which is brought to you by

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00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,439
Speaker 1: Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company the Buffalo Bills.

764
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 1: What have you heard about the new Bill Stadium that

765
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: you like the most? Bills fan says that the Bills

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00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 1: will be in Buffalo for the next thirty four years. Well,

767
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: that's pretty self explanatory. Yeah, we get it. There's a

768
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: whole generation of Bills fans that lived under the specter

769
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 1: of this team's time in Western New York perhaps coming

770
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: to a close, and there was always that concern, not

771
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: only during Ralph Wilson's tenure as owner of the club,

772
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 1: but there was also a specter of what might happen

773
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: to the club when mister Wilson passed on, And fortunately

774
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:51,240
Speaker 1: he put a lot of measures in place to prevent

775
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,720
Speaker 1: that from ever happening. I mean, it was so cost

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00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: prohibitive nobody would even entertain it. And then fortunately, you know,

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00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: the organization and the league was able to find owners

778
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: in the Pagoulas that had full intention of keeping the

779
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: team here a long term and this new stadium project

780
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: is perfect that I think it's you could tip your

781
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: hat to him for saying, listen, for the next thirty years,

782
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: were the guy, and there's not going to be any

783
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: this the specter of this happening. That's awesome. That's awesome. Yeah,

784
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 1: Jack on the tweet sheet says, I like that the

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00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 1: seats are going to be covered. I'm fine with the cold,

786
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: but can't stand being rained on outside and wet equals uncomfortable.

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00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: I like Orchard Park. I was never one of those

788
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 1: who needed a dome or for the stadium to be

789
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: in the city. It's easy to get in and out

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00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,280
Speaker 1: of Orchard Park, at least for me and the city.

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00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: Idea would need way more infrastructure. Yes, I mean Ron Riculia,

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00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 1: who we're going to have on actually in about ten

793
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: minutes time, stated that yesterday when he was answering questions

794
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: from the media, the idea of a downtown stadium was

795
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: going to involve too many hoops to jump through, and

796
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 1: it was going to increase the cost by almost double.

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00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: And when you're asking for public funding, even if it's

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00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 1: bonded and eventually paid back to the state over time,

799
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 1: there's no way they're making their money back in a

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Speaker 1: reasonable amount of time to make that kind of investment.

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00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: If you're asking them for two point four billion dollars

802
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: instead of one point four the negotiations take a dramatic

803
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: right turn when the money is double, which based on

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00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: the infrastructure, all the demolition you would have had to do,

805
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:27,399
Speaker 1: not to mention displacing residents from their homes, yeah, you'd

806
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: be bulldozing homes and another thing as well, these decisions

807
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: don't I mean, most people are smart enough to know

808
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: this isn't you know, Jerry Jones or Terry Pagoula or

809
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 1: Robert Kraft or whatever, sitting back in their office with

810
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:45,800
Speaker 1: a cigar kid, they're feed up in the descent and

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Speaker 1: I don't want to, Dom, I just wanted to. They

812
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: did extensive research. The state did research, The Bills did research,

813
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: the county did research. They all talked about what the

814
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: best thing to do was. This is not just some

815
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 1: guy making some proclama, wasn't hapaz Yeah yeah, And to

816
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,720
Speaker 1: spite his fan base or anything like that, they asked

817
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: season ticket holders, Bills, fans, people who come to the

818
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 1: games what they really really wanted and what they really needed,

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00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: and that was the priority list. And here you have it.

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00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 1: And for those that you know are still a little

821
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: up in arms about it not being a dome, we

822
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: are going to be asked downtown. We are going to

823
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: be asking Ron Rihuea, the Bills executive vice president who's

824
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: been spearheading these efforts and these negotiations. We'll be asking

825
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:34,359
Speaker 1: him about ten minutes time. He did mention in our

826
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 1: FAQ on Buffalo bills dot com the concept of temperature

827
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: controlled spaces within the new stadium. So we're going to

828
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: get him to elaborate on that for us when we

829
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 1: have him on in about eight minutes time, So stay

830
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: tuned for that. I'm sure you'd be interested in hearing

831
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 1: that answer. Patrick on the tweet sheet says, when will

832
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 1: architect renderings be available? Hopefully it won't be another bowl

833
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:00,799
Speaker 1: type we were told a few months time down the

834
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Speaker 1: road is when there will be renderings available. We'll ask

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Speaker 1: him and we can ask him for clarification on that

836
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 1: as well. I mean that's you know, that's everybody loves pictures.

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Speaker 1: We get it. I want to see what I'm gonna,

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00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: what are we in for? You know, that's kind of

839
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:14,879
Speaker 1: cool and I get it as well. So yeah, we'll

840
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: ask him that and um, you know some of the

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00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 1: obviously we're I don't know what else can you ask him?

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00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 1: He's a question we can ask you. I'll probably shouldn't

843
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: go and searching for the answers. Yeah, I think I'll

844
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:31,239
Speaker 1: ask him if there's a current existing stadium that might

845
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: be a good reference point for Bills fans to look

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00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 1: at for what this one might look like, you know,

847
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 1: in four years time. So well, as we said, we'll

848
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 1: have ron rikiuy on in about five or six minutes

849
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: from Ehorst, open air and more diverse food snow games,

850
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 1: rule go bills, so he's pretty happy that it's an

851
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:56,919
Speaker 1: open air stadium. And then from Risky, is it true

852
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: there will be standing room only party deck that can

853
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 1: hold about five thousand or did I hear wrong? From

854
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: what we understand, there will be congregational areas, and again

855
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,280
Speaker 1: this is another question we'll be asking Ron Rikullian about

856
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 1: five or six minutes to see because we took a

857
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: lot of calls yesterday Steve concerns about the seating capacity

858
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: being reduced to about sixty to sixty two thousand seats.

859
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 1: It's going to be somewhere in that range for the

860
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 1: new stadium, and part of the reason why is to

861
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:34,280
Speaker 1: make the seats larger and more comfortable. The other reason

862
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 1: is there is expected to be congregational areas where we

863
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: anticipate they'll be selling standing room only tickets, where people

864
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: will still have full view of the field but be

865
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: able to kind of congregate party together. It's almost like

866
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 1: taking your tailgate into the game in many respects, where

867
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:56,799
Speaker 1: you know you'll have a concession stand right behind you,

868
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 1: You'll be able to pick up some beers, you can

869
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 1: stand there watch the game from you know, as Risky says,

870
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: from a party deck and watching the game. It's going

871
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: to be an incredibly different experience once you're out of

872
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:14,919
Speaker 1: your seat walking around in this in high Mark, these

873
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: concourses underneath the grand stands, not in view of the field,

874
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:21,360
Speaker 1: you can't see anything and there you know, it's not

875
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:25,359
Speaker 1: a place you want to hang out. So that's going

876
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:29,839
Speaker 1: to change, yeah, for the better. So yeah, I think

877
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 1: there are a lot of questions that everybody has and

878
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: there aren't a lot of concrete answers. But as we said,

879
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:37,319
Speaker 1: we'll have Bill's executive vice president around Riquia on with

880
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 1: us in about five minutes time to spell a lot

881
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 1: of that stuff out for you and try to provide

882
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 1: as much detail as he can based on what they know. Now.

883
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 1: Obviously a lot of the details, the finer details won't

884
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: come into focus until a little bit further on down

885
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: the road when they get you know, the project labor

886
00:48:56,680 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 1: agreement and the construction coordination agreement's done, and that all

887
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: has to wait until the state budget is passed, which

888
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: hopefully happens on April first, which is when the vote

889
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:10,720
Speaker 1: is going to be taken in Albany and then Erie counting.

890
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: The legislature here has to approve everything as well in

891
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: terms of the two hundred and fifty million that they

892
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: are going to be funding towards the stadium project. So

893
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:25,320
Speaker 1: some hurdles too still clear here before it's full steam ahead.

894
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: But for the most part, things are certainly heading in

895
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 1: the right direction, you know, at this point. So that's

896
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,359
Speaker 1: kind of where we are and that's where we'll go.

897
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,319
Speaker 1: So we will take a break here, but as we said,

898
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:41,840
Speaker 1: when we come back, Bill's executive Vice president, Ron Rakuia,

899
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:46,319
Speaker 1: who has been spearheading the new stadium project negotiations with

900
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: the state and the county, will be joining us for

901
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 1: our number two of the show, and we'll have some

902
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: of your most poignant questions ready for him. Here on

903
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 1: one Bill's Live, presented by Kalada Health. It's Buffalo Bill's

904
00:49:56,880 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: Radio at a Steve Tasker who has been all over

905
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:21,800
Speaker 1: the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind of a

906
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:28,359
Speaker 1: dual role player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're

907
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:35,800
Speaker 1: not even in the stratosphere of normalcy. Okay, our number

908
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 1: two here on a Tuesday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you,

909
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 1: and please to be joined now by Executive vice president

910
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: of the Gouger Fortune Entertainment, Ron Racuia, who has been

911
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:48,879
Speaker 1: a busy guy down at the owner's meetings the last

912
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: couple of days, and he joins us from the sunny

913
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 1: confines of West Palm and with snowflakes flying here, Ron,

914
00:50:55,719 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 1: we are admittedly jealous, but doing some important work down there,

915
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: and glad you can make some time for us. We

916
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:05,839
Speaker 1: know you're a busy guy, and I want to start here. Ron.

917
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 1: Now that the MoU has been signed, you get the

918
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: G four funding from the league on Monday that's been approved. So,

919
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:15,359
Speaker 1: for lack of a better term, because I'm sure there

920
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 1: are things that you guys are taking care of with

921
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:20,759
Speaker 1: respect to the agreement. Are you in somewhat of a

922
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: weight and sit position knowing you need the state budget

923
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 1: to still be passed and the county legislator has county

924
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 1: legislature has work to do as well, or can you

925
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 1: now work on things like a project labor agreement or

926
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: construction coordination things like that? Hey Chris, Hey Steve, how

927
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,759
Speaker 1: you doing. Yeah, it's pretty beautiful out here, so thanks

928
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 1: for allowing me to do this from outside. We are

929
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: in a wait and c mode in terms of finality

930
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 1: on the agreements. But I will tell you that the

931
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:55,800
Speaker 1: Fagoulas decided several months ago to allow us to continue

932
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 1: working the project as if it was going to get

933
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 1: done so we didn't fall behind. So we've been working

934
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 1: every day with Populace, with Legends, with the state in

935
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 1: the county getting ready for this construction project. So for us,

936
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:10,840
Speaker 1: it's it's full steam ahead, although we are kind of

937
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: in that wait and see mode in terms of a

938
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 1: final agreement and how well, how soon will it be

939
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: before you know, Populace and you guys decide on what

940
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 1: the initial renderings are gonna look like, because you know

941
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: how that is. I mean, most of us we just

942
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:26,319
Speaker 1: want to see what it's gonna look like. When, how

943
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 1: soon will that happen on the horizon is that? And

944
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:32,280
Speaker 1: how big it changes could there be during the process

945
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: of when you when you break ground till the end product.

946
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 1: There's obviously going to be some change orders in that project.

947
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 1: But how soon will it be before we kind of

948
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: start to get our mind around what it's going to

949
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: look like? Steve, I think we're probably a couple of

950
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:49,279
Speaker 1: months away from that from real definitive drawings. We may

951
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:52,880
Speaker 1: have some conceptual renderings that we can share before that

952
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: uncertain areas, but I would say a couple of months.

953
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 1: Populace has done a great job. As you guys know,

954
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: Scott Radasek and his team have been working on this

955
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 1: project for a decade. You know, we've been working on

956
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:10,240
Speaker 1: it really quite extensively since twenty eighteen, and certainly very

957
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,160
Speaker 1: in depth over the last six months. And Ron, I

958
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 1: know you've stayed in some previous interviews that the stadium

959
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: will be open air, but that the majority of seats

960
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: will have coverage from the elements are just for reference?

961
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: Are there stadiums that fans can use and look at,

962
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: either here Stateside or in Europe that you think at

963
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: least provide them with a general picture as to what

964
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: they can expect. I would say the best stadium to

965
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:41,360
Speaker 1: look at in that regard, Chris is Tattenham. It's a

966
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 1: stadium that Populace did. It's a stadium that the NFL

967
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 1: uses for the International Series. It's a couple of years old,

968
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 1: very similar in size, sixty two sixty three thousands and

969
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 1: seats square footage. I think there it might be one

970
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:56,799
Speaker 1: point five or one point six million square feet, little

971
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 1: bit bigger than ours, but ours intended to be, but

972
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 1: not much so I would point to Tottenham. You know,

973
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: there are a few were trying to take the best

974
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,640
Speaker 1: of everything. You know, there are things that's Sofi that

975
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 1: we really like, although you know we're not building Sofi stadium.

976
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: There's things that the Raiders new stadium and allegiance that

977
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 1: we found the stadium, LAFC Stadium in LA has some

978
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 1: really cool features. You know, Legends did that project that

979
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 1: we think would be incorporated into a new stadium. So

980
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 1: we've really tried to take the best of all of

981
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:28,919
Speaker 1: it and then really make it four Buffalo. As Terry

982
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: has said multiple times, this is a stadium built for

983
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills for our football team. Want to create

984
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: the best home field advantage in the NFL, so we

985
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:39,880
Speaker 1: want to use all of that to our advantage to

986
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: win some football games. You also mentioned the footprint this

987
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:46,839
Speaker 1: The current footprint of high Mark Stadium is about nine

988
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 1: hundred thousand square feet. This one, as you said, is

989
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:51,919
Speaker 1: going to be one point four million or one point

990
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: five million square feet. Where will fans notice the difference

991
00:54:55,440 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 1: in that footprint? Everywhere? Steve the con courses, the gate entry,

992
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 1: the width of the seats. They'll notice it every place.

993
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:10,200
Speaker 1: That's one of the amenities that our fans really really want,

994
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: and that's a modern convenience in all the new stadiums

995
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 1: is you want people to feel comfortable. You want them

996
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 1: to enjoy being there for a long periods of time

997
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:21,360
Speaker 1: and to keep coming back. So yeah, they're going to

998
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 1: feel that everywhere. And so by the way, so well,

999
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:26,839
Speaker 1: so well the back end the things that people don't see.

1000
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 1: More room for food and beverage, more room for the

1001
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:32,320
Speaker 1: football team, the locker rooms, all of that. The press,

1002
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:35,719
Speaker 1: you know, they'll all have an advanced experience in the

1003
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 1: new stadium. And with the announcement made on Monday, Ron

1004
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 1: when you know, we were doing our show yesterday, I

1005
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:45,160
Speaker 1: think the most popular concern from the callers was the

1006
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:48,360
Speaker 1: reduction in seating capacity. You state at sixty to sixty

1007
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:52,239
Speaker 1: two thousand seats, Can you just explain whether or not

1008
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 1: there will be additional tickets for entry that will go

1009
00:55:56,560 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 1: above and beyond just the sixty to sixty two thousand seats. Yes,

1010
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:04,640
Speaker 1: right now we're looking at um these party deck concepts,

1011
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 1: these standing room only areas that younger fans and especially

1012
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:12,399
Speaker 1: are enjoying throughout you know, throughout sports. We think there's

1013
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 1: another opportunity for maybe three to five thousand more of those.

1014
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:18,920
Speaker 1: I was asked a question U this morning on WGR.

1015
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:21,480
Speaker 1: You know, they said, yeah, but can those will those

1016
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:24,720
Speaker 1: people be able to see the game? Yes? Our ideas

1017
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: at every fan deck, every party zone will actually face

1018
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 1: the field because the the action on the field is

1019
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,760
Speaker 1: the most important thing. So when when you start adding

1020
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 1: that all together, we get into sixty five, sixty six,

1021
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 1: sixty seven thousand range. And that's exactly what we have

1022
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:43,080
Speaker 1: on you know, thankfully on Bill's Game days now. And

1023
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:45,719
Speaker 1: the timeline that's been mentioned a couple of times is

1024
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty sixth season. Um, that doesn't seem like

1025
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 1: very far away, and yet there's and there's so much

1026
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 1: to do. I mean, is it realistic? And how critical

1027
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 1: is it to get out of the old stadium to

1028
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 1: before you get into the new one? I mean, you

1029
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, are we going to expire the

1030
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:06,160
Speaker 1: old stadium before? Because we've heard also that there's kind

1031
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:07,880
Speaker 1: of an expiration date on those upper decks of the

1032
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:11,760
Speaker 1: old stadium. Well, first of all, the county the state.

1033
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 1: You know, and the team have done a great job

1034
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: maintaining high Mark. We'll continue to do that as long

1035
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: as we're playing there, to make sure that it's safe

1036
00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 1: and functional for our fans and for our players. But

1037
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:23,919
Speaker 1: we want to get to the new stadium as quickly

1038
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 1: as possible. Twenty twenty six is aggressive, but it is realistic.

1039
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 1: As I mentioned kind of earlier, the Pugulas allowed us

1040
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: to continue this process so we weren't delayed by doing

1041
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 1: all of the things that were necessary to ensure that

1042
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six opening date. Ron you mentioned in the

1043
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 1: faq on Buffalo bills dot com the concept of temperature

1044
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: controlled spaces within the stadium confines. Is there any detail

1045
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 1: that can be provided on that, just because we had

1046
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 1: fans asking about that as well yesterday on the show,

1047
00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: and how and where will that benefit the fans in

1048
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 1: terms of the endgame experience. Well, the temperature control spaces

1049
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 1: are going to be everywhere in the stadium. I mean,

1050
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 1: if you just think about high Mark right now, the

1051
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 1: only temperature controlled spaces are in the clubs and in

1052
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 1: the suites. The one hundred level, the three hundred level

1053
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: are completely exposed to the elements in our plans now

1054
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 1: every section, every area of the stadium, fans will be

1055
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: able to go get warm, have temperature controlled spaces to

1056
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: be able to enjoy the you know, the game and

1057
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 1: the experience without being in the elements. That's going to

1058
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 1: be integral throughout the entire process, and it's going to

1059
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:39,320
Speaker 1: be a little bit different setup than has been worth.

1060
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 1: There's gonna be PSL's personal seat licenses. How does the

1061
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 1: mechanics I don't, I know, it's way far in the

1062
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: distance of how much it's going to cost or anything.

1063
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:49,000
Speaker 1: What's it gonna work like? I mean, how does this

1064
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 1: personal seat license work? So personal seat license, you know,

1065
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 1: is going to be owned for thirty years by the fan.

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00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 1: It's transferable. They can give it to their family and

1067
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: their friends, they can resell it on the marketplace. It's

1068
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 1: gonna come with a tremendous set of season ticket holder

1069
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 1: benefits that are going to be unique, you know, to

1070
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 1: the PSL holder. And it's a it's a reality in

1071
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 1: today's NFL, and it's a critical function to building any

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00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 1: new stadium. What we did say and what we're committed

1073
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 1: to doing is making them the most affordable PSLs in

1074
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 1: the NFL. So are you say, seriously, it's kind of

1075
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:28,240
Speaker 1: I forget me. I'm putting this into golf mentality. So

1076
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 1: if I'm a member of a club, like a personal

1077
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 1: seat license, I can sell my membership to another person

1078
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 1: for market value, yes or above. Yep, it's yours. You

1079
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 1: own it. You own it for thirty years. Daddy liked that. Okay,

1080
00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: all right, last one for me, Ron, because I know

1081
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 1: you've mentioned this before with respect to fans and the

1082
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:56,840
Speaker 1: public participating in the planning process. What can you know,

1083
00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 1: maybe Bill, season ticket members expect, should they expect the

1084
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 1: build to be reaching out or how might that work

1085
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 1: in terms of public participation, Chris, We've we've encouraged, you know,

1086
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,240
Speaker 1: our fans to partake in everything that we have available

1087
01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 1: to them. This week, we have season ticket member forums

1088
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: taking place with Legends and CSL, some of our suitethholders,

1089
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:21,560
Speaker 1: our corporate partners, a lot of community leaders. They're doing

1090
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,520
Speaker 1: that all this week. We've had surveys, will have more,

1091
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:28,920
Speaker 1: We'll have focus groups, fan forums. The fans are going

1092
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 1: to be a big part of this. It's for them

1093
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 1: and we want to make sure that their voices are

1094
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 1: heard and what they're looking for in the new stadium

1095
01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 1: has met all, right, ron, I know this that my

1096
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:39,520
Speaker 1: last one for me. I know there's a million moving

1097
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 1: parts to a deal like this. We've all gotten a

1098
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:44,120
Speaker 1: glimpse of that with the public statements from all the

1099
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: parties involved. But you've got the County of Erie, the

1100
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:49,360
Speaker 1: State of New York, the NFL, and of course the

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01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 1: Buffalo bills all on board together. Can you give us

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01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:56,520
Speaker 1: a quick handful of landmarks that you're looking for? Obviously

1103
01:00:56,960 --> 01:01:00,280
Speaker 1: you know the renderings we talked about September first, getting

1104
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: the budgets passed, pass that. What are some of the

1105
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:07,120
Speaker 1: other landmarks that fans can look for? Yeah, let's let's

1106
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 1: kind of go through it um. This week, the New

1107
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 1: York State budget will get pass that'll make it official

1108
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 1: from a state's perspective. Within thirty days, the Erie County

1109
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,840
Speaker 1: legislature has to approve it. That'll make it official from

1110
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:21,320
Speaker 1: a Erie County perspective. Then by September first, all the

1111
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 1: long form agreements that that we mentioned have to be executed.

1112
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:28,040
Speaker 1: Then the fun really starts. You know, people say when

1113
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 1: when's the construction? When the when's the first hole in

1114
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 1: the ground. The way people think about that it's probably

1115
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:36,360
Speaker 1: a year from now, depending on the weather. We don't

1116
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 1: need any more days in March with twenty degrees we

1117
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:40,920
Speaker 1: get some good weather, we could start this in the

1118
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 1: early spring of twenty twenty three, and you know from

1119
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:47,160
Speaker 1: there it's about a thirty to thirty two months construction cycle.

1120
01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 1: We're gonna chronicle it all, you know. Our great team

1121
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: you know at the Bills and a PSC will do

1122
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 1: a great job putting that on all of our platforms,

1123
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 1: so it'll be fun. People want to see drawings. I've

1124
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 1: heard that loud and year over the last twenty four hours.

1125
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 1: We'll get we'll get populous, moving as quickly as we

1126
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:08,440
Speaker 1: possibly can. All right, Ron, Well, listen, you keep working

1127
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:11,120
Speaker 1: on your tan down there and keep doing the good work.

1128
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:13,440
Speaker 1: We appreciate that at a time. As always, we know

1129
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 1: you're busy, and congratulations. I know it's a monumental project.

1130
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: We thanks for your thank you for your part, and

1131
01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 1: also Kim and Terry and all of that. We're excited

1132
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:25,600
Speaker 1: for it and congratulations on this landmark achievement and we'll

1133
01:02:25,640 --> 01:02:29,160
Speaker 1: look forward to it what it produces. Thanks, guys, We

1134
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:31,480
Speaker 1: are to appreciate all of your help as well, all right,

1135
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:35,040
Speaker 1: that's uh, Executive Vice President Ron Riculia with the bills

1136
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:37,960
Speaker 1: helping us out getting some answers out to you on

1137
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:40,959
Speaker 1: the new stadium project, at least as much as can

1138
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 1: be you know, delineated at this point in time. There's

1139
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:46,320
Speaker 1: still a lot of decisions that still have to be made.

1140
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:48,840
Speaker 1: And as you heard him say, he's going to be

1141
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:52,960
Speaker 1: taking the stadium project people, organizers are going to be

1142
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:57,440
Speaker 1: taking input. You know, they'll have forums in which, you know,

1143
01:02:57,560 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 1: you can make suggestions. I'm not saying they're going to

1144
01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:02,160
Speaker 1: take come to the bank, but if they hear something

1145
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:05,600
Speaker 1: they like that they can incorporate into the new construction,

1146
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 1: they're gonna do it. I mean, they have a bigger footprint,

1147
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:11,520
Speaker 1: as you mentioned with him, Ron, you know, Ron said

1148
01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:14,440
Speaker 1: one point five million square feet. That's six hundred thousand

1149
01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:16,960
Speaker 1: square feet larger than this thing across the street from

1150
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 1: us right now. Yeah, and it's all gonna be and

1151
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:22,240
Speaker 1: where and how the fans move and congregate around the building.

1152
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 1: I mean, the football field is going to be the

1153
01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:26,280
Speaker 1: same size the seats are. Seemingly it sounds like the

1154
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:28,720
Speaker 1: seats are all gonna each individual seats gonna be bigger

1155
01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 1: and have more room. You're gonna be more comfortable. There's

1156
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:35,480
Speaker 1: gonna be a ton of climate control. Yeah, it sounds great,

1157
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:37,479
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be great. You're gonna people are gonna

1158
01:03:37,520 --> 01:03:39,439
Speaker 1: love sitting in the new stadium. It's gonna be great

1159
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:41,560
Speaker 1: because you know, they're gonna compare it to High Mark

1160
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:44,840
Speaker 1: and it's fifty years old. Yeah. And I mean though,

1161
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:47,360
Speaker 1: I'm glad we asked him the temperature control of space

1162
01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 1: question because he basically said, just about everywhere, fans are

1163
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:57,680
Speaker 1: gonna have an opportunity to basically be warm, for lack

1164
01:03:57,720 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 1: of a better term. Well, I don't I'm not gonna

1165
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:03,120
Speaker 1: p and to know exactly what that looks like, but

1166
01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:07,080
Speaker 1: it sounds pretty dang encouraging. And with the covered seats,

1167
01:04:07,080 --> 01:04:09,360
Speaker 1: as one of our people that commented on the tweet,

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01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 1: she'd mentioned like that eighty percent of the seats are

1169
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:15,480
Speaker 1: going to be fully covered from the elements. So that

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01:04:15,520 --> 01:04:18,240
Speaker 1: means all those home games we had last year when

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01:04:18,240 --> 01:04:21,720
Speaker 1: there was presip you're not impacted, yeah, because cold and

1172
01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:24,640
Speaker 1: wet is terrible. So it looks like they're going to

1173
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:28,280
Speaker 1: be doing their level best with new technologies and the

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01:04:28,320 --> 01:04:31,440
Speaker 1: configuration of the stadium to eliminate those things, even though

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01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:34,280
Speaker 1: they are in fact an open air stadium. And he

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01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:36,160
Speaker 1: pointed to those of you that missed the beginning of

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01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:39,320
Speaker 1: the interview when I asked him if you want Bills

1178
01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:42,160
Speaker 1: fans to seek out an existing stadium that can serve

1179
01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:45,160
Speaker 1: as a reference point for some of the ways in

1180
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:47,720
Speaker 1: which this new stadium for the Bills might appear. He

1181
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:51,360
Speaker 1: pointed to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium from the English Premier League.

1182
01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:54,439
Speaker 1: They're based in London. The stadium's two years old. It's

1183
01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:57,080
Speaker 1: also the stadium, by the way, that the NFL uses

1184
01:04:57,120 --> 01:05:00,280
Speaker 1: for international games. They use Wembley Stadium, and they this

1185
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:03,520
Speaker 1: new two year old Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, which is insane

1186
01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:06,120
Speaker 1: in terms of what they roll out because they have

1187
01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:12,200
Speaker 1: a natural grass field for soccer and then hydraulically it

1188
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 1: is rotated out for a football playing surface which rotates

1189
01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:20,280
Speaker 1: in so they have two rotating field surfaces, which is insane.

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01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:22,480
Speaker 1: This stadium is not going to have that, but yeah,

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01:05:22,680 --> 01:05:25,400
Speaker 1: it's gonna have a lot of the same elements that

1192
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:28,920
Speaker 1: the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has, particularly the way in which

1193
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:32,920
Speaker 1: they cover the seats on either side of the stadium,

1194
01:05:33,040 --> 01:05:35,800
Speaker 1: even though it is also open air. Yeah, and it

1195
01:05:35,880 --> 01:05:38,800
Speaker 1: is open air. It's got a you know hole in

1196
01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:41,479
Speaker 1: the top. It's kind of big circle thing. And it'll

1197
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:45,720
Speaker 1: be interesting to see because now point being the New

1198
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:47,520
Speaker 1: England game here in Buffalo on a Monday night game

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01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:49,240
Speaker 1: with a forty mile an hour wins, and that will

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01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:54,400
Speaker 1: be a much different, much different outcome and a much

1201
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:57,600
Speaker 1: different feel when you got a stadium built like that

1202
01:05:57,640 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 1: one of Tottenham Hotspur, because the can't get down inside there.

1203
01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:04,520
Speaker 1: It'll swirl, but it won't be good grief. You won't

1204
01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:06,600
Speaker 1: have to lean into it on the field kind of thing.

1205
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:09,400
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see how the weather does

1206
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 1: play a part in it. But it will, and it

1207
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 1: will in some way, shape or form because it will have,

1208
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:16,160
Speaker 1: you know, be an open air stadium. We'll have to see.

1209
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:18,320
Speaker 1: And I know that there's we're gonna hear it, and

1210
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:20,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna put up with it, I know. But a

1211
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:22,000
Speaker 1: lot of people are very put out that it's not

1212
01:06:22,040 --> 01:06:24,200
Speaker 1: going to have a dome on it. I get it.

1213
01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:28,080
Speaker 1: It's just not going to happen. Yeah, it's it's price prohibitive.

1214
01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:31,280
Speaker 1: So let's go to the phones and take some phone calls.

1215
01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:35,400
Speaker 1: At eighth three, fifty one, eight fifty two, five fifty

1216
01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:37,640
Speaker 1: and we go to Blaine and Williamsville. Wall you have

1217
01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:40,200
Speaker 1: Horis Blaine. You're on one Bill's Live. Hey, guys, thank

1218
01:06:40,240 --> 01:06:43,360
Speaker 1: for taking my call. Two things. One, I know that

1219
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:47,640
Speaker 1: once this project gets going, I gotta believe Kim Bugula

1220
01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 1: is going to be in there up and everything up

1221
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 1: to the like she did with the training facility. I mean,

1222
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:55,400
Speaker 1: it wasn't supposed to look like that at the beginning,

1223
01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:58,600
Speaker 1: but she wanted to go first class and everything, and

1224
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:02,440
Speaker 1: that was what we wound up. So I'm really anxious

1225
01:07:02,480 --> 01:07:04,520
Speaker 1: to see once she gets her hands on that stadium

1226
01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:07,120
Speaker 1: what she's gonna do to, you know, take that to

1227
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:09,680
Speaker 1: the limit. The other thing I had was I didn't

1228
01:07:09,840 --> 01:07:13,520
Speaker 1: hear anything about a scoreboard. Now so far had that

1229
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:18,600
Speaker 1: state of the art circular scoreboard. Jerry has that monstrosity

1230
01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 1: in the middle of his stadium. I think Allegiate has

1231
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:24,320
Speaker 1: something that's really unique. Do you hear anything about what

1232
01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:27,920
Speaker 1: are they're going to try to do something ground shattering

1233
01:07:28,080 --> 01:07:31,040
Speaker 1: on the scoreboard side? Yeah, there's nothing, been nothing of that,

1234
01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:33,160
Speaker 1: And that's that's way off in the distance as well.

1235
01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:37,680
Speaker 1: Come down with the with the renderings and stuff like

1236
01:07:37,720 --> 01:07:42,200
Speaker 1: that that will come later on. It's interesting though, because

1237
01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 1: if you think of, you know, you kind of equate

1238
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 1: this with that soccer stadium. They say that soccer doesn't

1239
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:51,240
Speaker 1: have that kind of stuff. They don't put big screens

1240
01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:54,280
Speaker 1: in all their seeing in America. For the football side

1241
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:58,000
Speaker 1: of things, it's such a game. The game lends itself

1242
01:07:58,040 --> 01:08:01,240
Speaker 1: to small breaks throughout the game. Between every play, they're

1243
01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:03,480
Speaker 1: huddled up, we take a minute, we look back at

1244
01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:06,080
Speaker 1: the last highlight, and then we look back to the field.

1245
01:08:06,120 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 1: They don't do that in soccer. So in a soccer

1246
01:08:08,240 --> 01:08:12,560
Speaker 1: stadium like Tottenham, there is no place for that big highlight,

1247
01:08:12,640 --> 01:08:15,720
Speaker 1: real scoreboard, the replays, all that stuff. That stuff's not

1248
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 1: done over there. So if they're gonna incorporate that into

1249
01:08:18,280 --> 01:08:20,920
Speaker 1: this stadium, they're gonna have to change it quite a

1250
01:08:20,920 --> 01:08:23,559
Speaker 1: bit to make room for that to happen. So what

1251
01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:29,640
Speaker 1: that looks like does does remain to be seen. But

1252
01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 1: I think I don't know what you think, Brownie. I

1253
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:36,160
Speaker 1: think in an NFL stadium, big screens and replace the

1254
01:08:36,439 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 1: capacity and fantasy scores and all the ongoing info that happens.

1255
01:08:42,240 --> 01:08:45,880
Speaker 1: And not only that, but let's just say it, gambling

1256
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:48,960
Speaker 1: all that stuff is gonna be bigger and bigger. They

1257
01:08:49,040 --> 01:08:52,080
Speaker 1: gotta have a way to incorporate it, incorporate it, so

1258
01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 1: that'll affect everything too, right, I believe so. And the

1259
01:08:56,080 --> 01:09:00,400
Speaker 1: question is do you do that? Do you rely on

1260
01:09:00,479 --> 01:09:03,920
Speaker 1: people doing that on their phones? Or do you provide

1261
01:09:04,240 --> 01:09:09,280
Speaker 1: a mass viewing opportunity with screens? And if so, where

1262
01:09:09,280 --> 01:09:12,120
Speaker 1: do you place them? Do you have a suspended screen

1263
01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 1: over the middle of the field. Maybe the you know,

1264
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:19,200
Speaker 1: maybe the height of the stadium doesn't allow for, you know,

1265
01:09:19,240 --> 01:09:21,320
Speaker 1: as big a screen as you'd like to have in

1266
01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:24,400
Speaker 1: the middle of the field. Maybe you're more concerned about

1267
01:09:24,479 --> 01:09:27,679
Speaker 1: natural sight lines where you don't want to interrupt those

1268
01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:30,439
Speaker 1: views by putting a giant screen in the middle of

1269
01:09:30,439 --> 01:09:32,880
Speaker 1: the field like Jerry Jones, which is eighty yards long

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Speaker 1: twenty to twenty, Well it's sixty so yeah, and it's

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Speaker 1: but I'll say this, in that stadium in Dallas, you

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Speaker 1: kind of need that screen to take the scale of

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Speaker 1: the building down to where you can get your mind

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Speaker 1: around where you're sitting, because if that screen wasn't there,

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Speaker 1: it would be so huge as to be disconcerting. It's

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01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:53,919
Speaker 1: kind of silly though, because I've been in that stadium

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Speaker 1: you watch TV. Well, that's the thing. I'm sitting in

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Speaker 1: the press box in the corner of the stadium and

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01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:01,200
Speaker 1: I'm watching the game, but I look, I'm looking in

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01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:04,080
Speaker 1: the upper deck. During breaks in the action, people are

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01:10:04,080 --> 01:10:06,360
Speaker 1: just staring at the giant screen like they're watching TV

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01:10:06,439 --> 01:10:08,400
Speaker 1: at home. It's like, why are you even And it's

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01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:12,120
Speaker 1: another point of contention or a point of discussion. Do

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01:10:12,160 --> 01:10:14,920
Speaker 1: you want everybody looking at one sixty yard screen like

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01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:17,680
Speaker 1: they do in Dallas? Or do you want everybody to

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01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:21,200
Speaker 1: have multiple smaller screens where they're closer and they can

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01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:23,920
Speaker 1: kind of lean over and you know, every five seats

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01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:26,960
Speaker 1: there's a TV or whatever, or is there one hanging

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Speaker 1: down that kind of thing. Those are the details. The

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01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:31,439
Speaker 1: details are Yeah, the devil's in the details, but that

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01:10:31,600 --> 01:10:33,880
Speaker 1: you know, those are choices that have to be made.

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01:10:34,240 --> 01:10:38,200
Speaker 1: I think he's right, though. I think this is gonna

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Speaker 1: be They're gonna I think they're gonna hit a home

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Speaker 1: run with this stadium. I think they'll they'll do some

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Speaker 1: things top notch and there's gonna be a ton of

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01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:46,680
Speaker 1: change orders and what it actually looks like from the

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Speaker 1: beginning is could be very different. We'll see. Let's move along.

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Speaker 1: We go to Harry in Canada next. What do you

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Speaker 1: got for us? Harry, Hey, good afternoon, guys. I'm probably

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Speaker 1: in the minority, but I'm gonna say this anyway, because

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01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:03,760
Speaker 1: I am along a long term season ticket holder and

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01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:09,680
Speaker 1: definitely Bills mafiam. I like the Troughts, I like you know,

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01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:14,400
Speaker 1: sitting close together, bundling up. Do we need a new stadium, Absolutely,

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01:11:15,080 --> 01:11:17,720
Speaker 1: But I'm just worried that a guy like me and

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01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:20,600
Speaker 1: some of my friends are going to, you know, be

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01:11:20,920 --> 01:11:26,000
Speaker 1: priced out of of of being season ticket holders going

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01:11:26,040 --> 01:11:29,000
Speaker 1: in the future. Or I may buy the tickets and

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01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:34,599
Speaker 1: then sell them in order to, you know, maintain the cost.

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Speaker 1: Does that sound bad? Well, no, I understand your concern,

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01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:40,439
Speaker 1: and I respected Harry. I don't have a problem with that.

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01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:44,439
Speaker 1: But I think Ron Riculia has said several times that

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01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:48,840
Speaker 1: they've done a multitude of research on this. I think

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01:11:48,880 --> 01:11:53,400
Speaker 1: they recognize what this market can bear in terms of cost.

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01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:56,640
Speaker 1: It's why the Bills season ticket prices are among the

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01:11:56,640 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 1: most affordable in the league, among the lowest in the league,

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01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:02,439
Speaker 1: and have been in the bottom five in terms of

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01:12:02,479 --> 01:12:06,840
Speaker 1: total cost for the last thirty plus years. They recognize

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01:12:07,280 --> 01:12:10,439
Speaker 1: what the market can bear. And Ron said they have

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01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:15,120
Speaker 1: put an enormous amount of research into pricing it properly

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01:12:15,640 --> 01:12:19,080
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo fan. And he said yesterday and no

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01:12:19,200 --> 01:12:22,000
Speaker 1: uncertain terms is a direct quote. We will not price

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Speaker 1: our fans out of being able to attend games. They

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01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:28,400
Speaker 1: will not do that so because they know the home

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01:12:28,439 --> 01:12:31,240
Speaker 1: field advantages the fans, so it would be foolish to

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Speaker 1: do that. Why are you gonna you gonna price a

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Speaker 1: seat so much that you can't get people in the seats.

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01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:38,720
Speaker 1: I mean, that is the definition of cost prohibitor. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of levels to this. And Harry, thanks for

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01:12:40,520 --> 01:12:42,280
Speaker 1: the call. The one thing he had too is if

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Speaker 1: you're gonna charge I'm gonna exaggerate. If you're charging a

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars a seat, you're gonna get a different type

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01:12:48,520 --> 01:12:52,000
Speaker 1: of fan in there, one who's gonna want a lot

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01:12:52,040 --> 01:12:54,439
Speaker 1: of things other than just a twenty ounce beer that

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01:12:54,520 --> 01:12:57,240
Speaker 1: costs fifteen bucks, right, I mean, if you're gonna pay

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Speaker 1: that much money, so you know you want the you

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01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:02,040
Speaker 1: want the fans to go in there to know what

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01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:04,280
Speaker 1: they're gonna get and get value for what they spend.

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01:13:05,120 --> 01:13:07,240
Speaker 1: H That's hard to do on a consistent basis if

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01:13:07,280 --> 01:13:11,040
Speaker 1: you overprice the tickets. Another thing as well that you

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01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:13,200
Speaker 1: brought up, and it made me think that it's going

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01:13:13,280 --> 01:13:17,520
Speaker 1: to be a new stadium, and the game day experience

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01:13:17,640 --> 01:13:19,760
Speaker 1: is going to be unique to the new stadium. It's

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01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:22,360
Speaker 1: not gonna be like High Mark Stadium. It'll be unique

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01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:24,640
Speaker 1: to this stadium. It's going to be different for everybody.

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01:13:24,960 --> 01:13:27,160
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean it's not going to be better or work.

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Speaker 1: It's probably gonna be better because of the comfort and

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01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 1: the amenities. It will be much better, but it will

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01:13:31,320 --> 01:13:33,160
Speaker 1: be different. And I think you gotta get your mind

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01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:35,920
Speaker 1: around that when you when you say it's you know

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01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:37,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna it is gonna be fun. It's gonna be great.

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01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:41,639
Speaker 1: The team's playing well. The stadium is gonna be big, beautiful, bright,

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01:13:41,680 --> 01:13:43,280
Speaker 1: it's gonna be spatial to move around. It's gonna be

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01:13:43,280 --> 01:13:46,320
Speaker 1: different than the route. And while you can say it's

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01:13:46,360 --> 01:13:49,080
Speaker 1: kind of sad and romanticize it, I think for the

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01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:52,679
Speaker 1: most part different, it's going to be better. Yeah, it's time.

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01:13:52,880 --> 01:13:55,919
Speaker 1: I mean, it's as simple as that. The existing stadium

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01:13:56,640 --> 01:14:01,559
Speaker 1: is beyond it's usefulness. And that's even after renovations upwards,

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01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:04,719
Speaker 1: of which was one hundred and fifty million dollars. It's

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01:14:04,720 --> 01:14:08,559
Speaker 1: just it's it's time it's reached its expiration date. It's

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01:14:08,600 --> 01:14:11,960
Speaker 1: time to the point where had the bills and the

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01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:14,240
Speaker 1: county and the state not been maintaining at the last

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01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:15,880
Speaker 1: ten years, it wouldn't even be safe to go in.

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01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:21,400
Speaker 1: It is because of those refurbished, refurbished and renovation efforts.

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01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:25,719
Speaker 1: It's still functional, but with all the money they're pouring

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01:14:25,760 --> 01:14:28,599
Speaker 1: into it, it's becoming cost prohibitive. And you're just it's

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01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:32,639
Speaker 1: time it's lived beyond it's even anticipated use. I mean,

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01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:37,280
Speaker 1: it's fifty years old next year, so it's time to

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Speaker 1: turn the page. We have to take a break here.

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01:14:39,479 --> 01:14:41,080
Speaker 1: When we come back, we will take more of your

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01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:42,960
Speaker 1: phone call. So if you're waiting at eight O three

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Speaker 1: five fifty, hang tight, we'll get to you when we

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Speaker 1: return here. On One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back to One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. In an

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Speaker 1: effort to provide a better picture of what covered seating

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01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:11,200
Speaker 1: in the new stadium will look like, we are referencing

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01:15:11,240 --> 01:15:15,400
Speaker 1: the exact stadium that Bill's Executive Vice president Ron Riculia

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01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 1: suggested people take a look at so our MSG viewers

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01:15:18,160 --> 01:15:20,200
Speaker 1: will get a chance to look at this. This is

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Speaker 1: an image of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and this is

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Speaker 1: what covered seating looks like. A lot of the newer

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01:15:27,920 --> 01:15:32,960
Speaker 1: European soccer stadiums have the seats covered by an overhang

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01:15:33,520 --> 01:15:38,800
Speaker 1: and then there is a reduced open air area that

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01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:44,200
Speaker 1: essentially leaves open the top that hovers over the field.

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01:15:45,320 --> 01:15:47,880
Speaker 1: But all the seats, or at least eighty to ninety

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Speaker 1: percent of them, are fully covered by a covering of

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Speaker 1: some kind that envelops the stadium across the top. And

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Speaker 1: this Tottenham Hotspur Stadium even has glass that extends out

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Speaker 1: over with stanchions the seating areas down below. This is

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Speaker 1: what covered seating is probably going to look like in

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01:16:08,320 --> 01:16:12,120
Speaker 1: the new stadium, something like this. Yeah, and you know,

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01:16:12,160 --> 01:16:16,200
Speaker 1: of course it's a publicity photo, so it looks fantastic. Um.

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01:16:17,240 --> 01:16:19,400
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the old Dallas Stadium, the old

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01:16:19,439 --> 01:16:21,680
Speaker 1: Texas Stadium with the hole in it. Not quite to that,

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01:16:21,760 --> 01:16:24,960
Speaker 1: not quite that small little bigger, little bigger opening in

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01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:28,600
Speaker 1: the in the roof. But basically the field is completely uncovered,

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01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:32,720
Speaker 1: just about everything else is covered and it's and it's

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01:16:32,760 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 1: gonna know, it's gonna look sharp as attack, but it's

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Speaker 1: when you get in there, it's gonna be really interesting

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01:16:38,680 --> 01:16:40,760
Speaker 1: to see what the amenities are and how things are

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01:16:40,920 --> 01:16:44,280
Speaker 1: are changed and how they're different, and you know, all

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01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:46,479
Speaker 1: the way down to what surfaces you kind of walk on,

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01:16:46,600 --> 01:16:50,439
Speaker 1: you know, the old he'll ash fault that he's patched

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01:16:50,439 --> 01:16:53,000
Speaker 1: over stuff. Now, what we don't see here in the

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01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:59,080
Speaker 1: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium are those common party deck congregational areas

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01:16:59,760 --> 01:17:03,120
Speaker 1: that Ron said will be part of the new stadium

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01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:05,880
Speaker 1: for the Bills. But this is a stadium that seats

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01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:09,680
Speaker 1: approximately sixty four to sixty five thousand. The Bills is

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01:17:09,680 --> 01:17:11,880
Speaker 1: going to seat sixty two thousand, but it will have

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Speaker 1: those party deck areas that will have full view of

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Speaker 1: the playing field, and they will sell tickets above and

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01:17:19,479 --> 01:17:22,479
Speaker 1: beyond just the sixty two thousand seats standing room only

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01:17:22,520 --> 01:17:26,080
Speaker 1: for those party decks where essentially you're taking your tailgate

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01:17:26,120 --> 01:17:29,480
Speaker 1: and bring an inside for the game. So yeah, and

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. And even County Executive Mark Poland Cars

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01:17:34,040 --> 01:17:35,799
Speaker 1: you know, made this thing about it being a multi

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01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:39,040
Speaker 1: use stadium. And what this does is is not forget

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01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:46,080
Speaker 1: about the field. The stadium itself becomes a venue weddings, conferences, conventions,

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01:17:46,439 --> 01:17:48,200
Speaker 1: that kind of thing where that you've got all these

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01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:51,120
Speaker 1: open spaces where there's you know, people can congregate there

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01:17:51,160 --> 01:17:54,080
Speaker 1: without actually having to watch anything on the field. There's

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Speaker 1: that kind of space. There's gonna be half again as

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01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:01,240
Speaker 1: much space at the new place around the outside of

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01:18:01,240 --> 01:18:05,479
Speaker 1: that stadium as there is now because the footprints, because

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01:18:05,479 --> 01:18:08,400
Speaker 1: the footprints is larger, all the they're huge open spaces,

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01:18:08,439 --> 01:18:11,840
Speaker 1: so you could have conferences, business meetings and all that stuff.

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01:18:11,840 --> 01:18:16,280
Speaker 1: So it's it's one of those kind of venues that

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01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:18,920
Speaker 1: can be used for something other than just an enormous

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01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:21,960
Speaker 1: athletic event or a rock concert or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones at eight oh three

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01:18:24,439 --> 01:18:26,640
Speaker 1: h five fifty to Mark in East Amherst. We go,

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01:18:26,680 --> 01:18:27,840
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Mark? Here? All one

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01:18:27,880 --> 01:18:32,320
Speaker 1: Bill's life, you guys, what's up? Not too much? But

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Speaker 1: yeah for us I was wondering. I was wondering, do

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01:18:35,280 --> 01:18:39,080
Speaker 1: you have any information on the at pro training facility

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01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:41,960
Speaker 1: and if that's going to be accessible with the new

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01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:44,360
Speaker 1: stadium and how that's going to work. Yeah, I mean,

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01:18:44,400 --> 01:18:47,599
Speaker 1: to our knowledge it's going to remain intact and just

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01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:51,800
Speaker 1: keep on keeping on, you know. The Pagoulas, as you know,

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Speaker 1: put eighteen and a half million dollars into building the

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01:18:55,320 --> 01:18:59,280
Speaker 1: state of the art training facility and sports performance center

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01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:03,360
Speaker 1: that is connected and adjacent to the indoor field house

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01:19:04,479 --> 01:19:06,800
Speaker 1: as well as the administration building. I don't think there's

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01:19:06,800 --> 01:19:10,040
Speaker 1: any reason to believe that that is going to be

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01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:12,679
Speaker 1: changed in any way, shape or form. I'm just guessing,

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01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:16,320
Speaker 1: but I can't see them making any changes to that,

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01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:18,799
Speaker 1: especially since it's going to be in very close proximity

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01:19:18,840 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 1: to the new stadium. It's going to be right across

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01:19:20,360 --> 01:19:23,080
Speaker 1: the street, So I don't see there being any reason

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01:19:23,160 --> 01:19:25,639
Speaker 1: why they would change that. They just expanded the grass

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01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:28,439
Speaker 1: practice fields where they get two and a half fields

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01:19:28,479 --> 01:19:33,280
Speaker 1: worth of practice surface here, and the team locker room

1453
01:19:34,040 --> 01:19:36,679
Speaker 1: is connected to the stadium as well, which the Pogoula

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01:19:36,760 --> 01:19:40,080
Speaker 1: is also just refurbished about four or five years ago.

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01:19:40,200 --> 01:19:44,479
Speaker 1: So with all of that investment personal money from the

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01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:47,400
Speaker 1: Pogoulas themselves, I can't see them looking to change that

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01:19:47,840 --> 01:19:50,000
Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form. Now that's not to

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01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:54,639
Speaker 1: say that they wouldn't presumably have an expansive new locker

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01:19:54,720 --> 01:19:58,000
Speaker 1: room in the new stadium, obviously they would. Ron alluded

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01:19:58,040 --> 01:19:59,560
Speaker 1: to that as well. He said, you know, all the

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01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:03,320
Speaker 1: spaces behind the scenes, even the commissaries, the places where

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01:20:03,360 --> 01:20:06,160
Speaker 1: they you know, behind the curtain, so to speak, of

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01:20:06,200 --> 01:20:07,600
Speaker 1: what goes on in a game day, it's going to

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01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:11,760
Speaker 1: be greatly expanded. And so that would that goes with

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01:20:11,840 --> 01:20:15,559
Speaker 1: the players, the staffs, everything, So it'll yeah, it's gonna

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01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:18,400
Speaker 1: be big. It's gonna be really big. Back to the

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Speaker 1: phones we go and to Mike on Grand Island. What

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Speaker 1: do you got first? Mike? Hello, Yeah, we got you. Mike.

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01:20:25,840 --> 01:20:28,840
Speaker 1: What do you have? Yeah? I got a question about

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01:20:28,840 --> 01:20:33,200
Speaker 1: the new stadium? Sure help them? They all won't consider

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01:20:33,520 --> 01:20:39,439
Speaker 1: building into the plans the infrastructure to add a dome

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01:20:39,560 --> 01:20:44,000
Speaker 1: on ten, fifteen, twenty years down the line. It may

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01:20:44,080 --> 01:20:47,160
Speaker 1: cost a little more, it may not, But why couldn't

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01:20:47,240 --> 01:20:49,840
Speaker 1: they do that? Because if you want to have something

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01:20:49,920 --> 01:20:51,920
Speaker 1: like the Super Bowl, I think they'd want to have

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01:20:51,960 --> 01:20:56,360
Speaker 1: a covered stadium maybe, I mean, that's that's always something

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01:20:56,439 --> 01:21:00,160
Speaker 1: they've They've done extensive refurbishing to high Mark Stadium as

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Speaker 1: well over the years. And obviously technology grows as this

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01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:07,880
Speaker 1: as the years roll by, and maybe someday there will

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01:21:07,960 --> 01:21:10,679
Speaker 1: be the technology just put a big tent over the thing,

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01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:14,200
Speaker 1: like the Denver Airport or something like that. Um. Yeah,

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01:21:14,280 --> 01:21:16,640
Speaker 1: and there's nothing that says they can't do that, or

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01:21:16,760 --> 01:21:18,680
Speaker 1: when the technology gets there, they can put it over

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01:21:18,720 --> 01:21:22,880
Speaker 1: any structure they want, let alone one that's been pre

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01:21:23,040 --> 01:21:25,920
Speaker 1: fitted to have it happened. So yeah, to our knowledge

1486
01:21:25,920 --> 01:21:27,880
Speaker 1: though that's not to our knowledge that they're gonna keep

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01:21:27,880 --> 01:21:31,599
Speaker 1: it as an open air stadium. Maybe the next maybe

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01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:35,000
Speaker 1: the next the fourth generation stadium in Buffalo will have

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01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:38,800
Speaker 1: a dome. Yeah. In what was it would be about

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01:21:38,840 --> 01:21:42,160
Speaker 1: twenty eighty, right, I don't know every hundred year, every

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01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:45,479
Speaker 1: fifty years or so. Well, yeah, maybe even sooner than that. Um.

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01:21:46,120 --> 01:21:48,680
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones though, and we go

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01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:51,640
Speaker 1: to I think it's Eric and Lancaster. Eric, what do

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01:21:51,680 --> 01:21:55,479
Speaker 1: you have for us? Hey, Steve hum what's up? So?

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01:21:55,560 --> 01:21:58,880
Speaker 1: I have a question about the perking. What's the transition

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01:21:58,920 --> 01:22:03,760
Speaker 1: going to look like? You're gonna take all that across

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01:22:02,479 --> 01:22:05,400
Speaker 1: the right? So kind of thinking that's not going to

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01:22:05,479 --> 01:22:10,080
Speaker 1: be too much involved. There might be some encroachment there,

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01:22:10,080 --> 01:22:12,400
Speaker 1: and they may, you know, because of safety concerns or

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01:22:12,400 --> 01:22:16,600
Speaker 1: whatever OSHA safety However, big. They have to build a

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01:22:16,600 --> 01:22:20,439
Speaker 1: fence around the construction site. A lot of the land

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01:22:20,479 --> 01:22:24,160
Speaker 1: that's ECC that presumably ECC is gonna you know, it's

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01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:27,799
Speaker 1: gonna happen go over to the new stadium. Not There's

1504
01:22:27,920 --> 01:22:30,400
Speaker 1: a lot of grassland over there that is not used

1505
01:22:30,400 --> 01:22:34,479
Speaker 1: as parking. M land and space for parking is not

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01:22:34,520 --> 01:22:36,240
Speaker 1: going to be the issue with the new place, So

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01:22:36,280 --> 01:22:38,320
Speaker 1: I don't presume. I don't think it's going to encroach

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01:22:38,360 --> 01:22:41,479
Speaker 1: too much even in the transition. You presumably the parking

1509
01:22:41,520 --> 01:22:45,240
Speaker 1: that is available on the existing stadium side of Abbott

1510
01:22:45,280 --> 01:22:49,080
Speaker 1: Road will continue to be used for game day. Uh,

1511
01:22:49,479 --> 01:22:51,960
Speaker 1: it'll just be further away from the new stadium than

1512
01:22:52,479 --> 01:22:55,320
Speaker 1: currently being in closer proximity to the existing one. So

1513
01:22:55,320 --> 01:22:58,439
Speaker 1: the park that exists on the stadium side of Abbott

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01:22:58,520 --> 01:23:01,120
Speaker 1: Road will continue to be used, at least as far

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01:23:01,120 --> 01:23:04,000
Speaker 1: as we know. Yeah, you're just the cross the crosswalks

1516
01:23:04,040 --> 01:23:06,080
Speaker 1: are going to be going in the other direction for

1517
01:23:06,120 --> 01:23:08,519
Speaker 1: the years to come instead of coming from Abbott Road

1518
01:23:08,520 --> 01:23:11,400
Speaker 1: over to the one bills And in terms of infringement

1519
01:23:11,479 --> 01:23:15,360
Speaker 1: on the ECC South campus, Ron Rikulia said they have

1520
01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:20,280
Speaker 1: plans that include all of ECC South campus. They have

1521
01:23:20,360 --> 01:23:23,000
Speaker 1: plans that include some of ECC South Campus, and they

1522
01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: have plans that include none of ECC South Campus. The

1523
01:23:26,200 --> 01:23:29,559
Speaker 1: reason why the Bills have all of those contingency plans

1524
01:23:29,960 --> 01:23:31,800
Speaker 1: is because that is a decision that's going to be

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01:23:31,840 --> 01:23:34,080
Speaker 1: made by the state and the county. He said that

1526
01:23:34,200 --> 01:23:37,320
Speaker 1: this morning on w g R radio, So that's to

1527
01:23:37,400 --> 01:23:41,200
Speaker 1: be determined. We go now to who do we have here?

1528
01:23:41,240 --> 01:23:44,320
Speaker 1: We've got Ken in Hamburg. Ken, what do you have

1529
01:23:44,360 --> 01:23:46,960
Speaker 1: for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Yeah, how are

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01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:49,559
Speaker 1: you doing, guys, y'all? I was wondering. I've remember I

1531
01:23:49,560 --> 01:23:52,040
Speaker 1: haven't heard any mentioned about this, but he's the floor

1532
01:23:52,120 --> 01:23:54,800
Speaker 1: of the stadium gonna be underground like the warners at

1533
01:23:54,840 --> 01:23:57,439
Speaker 1: high Mark. No, yeah, I don't think so. I think

1534
01:23:57,479 --> 01:24:01,240
Speaker 1: it's totally it's gonna look. It's going to look way, way,

1535
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:04,280
Speaker 1: way taller than high Mark does. You're gonna be able

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01:24:04,280 --> 01:24:06,679
Speaker 1: to see this stadium from a long way away, I think,

1537
01:24:06,720 --> 01:24:08,920
Speaker 1: because I don't think they're gonna dig the trench because

1538
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:10,960
Speaker 1: if you remember one of the things about it that

1539
01:24:11,960 --> 01:24:14,559
Speaker 1: the bowl that the stadium is in natural the natural

1540
01:24:14,640 --> 01:24:17,480
Speaker 1: land formation goes right out into the into the drainage

1541
01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:20,519
Speaker 1: creek going down behind the stadium there down where the

1542
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:23,559
Speaker 1: tunnel is. That's not the case across the streets, so

1543
01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:26,479
Speaker 1: it'll probably be above ground almost one hundred percent. Yeah,

1544
01:24:26,560 --> 01:24:28,400
Speaker 1: I would tend to think it's going to be built

1545
01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:31,680
Speaker 1: at ground level. Not. I mean, you'll obviously have your

1546
01:24:31,680 --> 01:24:34,200
Speaker 1: foundation stuff that, you know, the pouring the concrete and

1547
01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:36,400
Speaker 1: whatever else you need to do for a proper foundation

1548
01:24:36,439 --> 01:24:39,880
Speaker 1: to support a stadium of this size. But beyond that, no,

1549
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:44,200
Speaker 1: I don't anticipate they're going to be digging deep down

1550
01:24:44,240 --> 01:24:47,280
Speaker 1: to put the field. You know what is it seventy

1551
01:24:47,280 --> 01:24:50,439
Speaker 1: five eighty feet below ground level and it's way down

1552
01:24:50,479 --> 01:24:53,200
Speaker 1: there at one end that yeah, the whole lower bowl

1553
01:24:53,240 --> 01:24:58,120
Speaker 1: is screwed existing. Yeah, so yeah, I don't anticipate that

1554
01:24:58,200 --> 01:25:01,559
Speaker 1: kind of configuration at all. So because of that, it'll

1555
01:25:01,560 --> 01:25:04,800
Speaker 1: be a much taller stadium. We go to Dave and

1556
01:25:04,920 --> 01:25:08,200
Speaker 1: Rochester next. What do you have first? Dave? Hey, you

1557
01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:12,479
Speaker 1: guys doing good. I actually had a question about the draft.

1558
01:25:12,680 --> 01:25:14,559
Speaker 1: I did have a question about the stagem as well,

1559
01:25:14,600 --> 01:25:18,439
Speaker 1: but you guys have just answered back. OKAYU. With the

1560
01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:20,760
Speaker 1: mock drafts that are coming out right now, I'm seeing

1561
01:25:20,800 --> 01:25:25,360
Speaker 1: a lot of guys going running back now I'm a

1562
01:25:25,400 --> 01:25:32,760
Speaker 1: big believer in going moving up in the draft, okay,

1563
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:34,720
Speaker 1: because what I see I don't I don't see nine

1564
01:25:34,760 --> 01:25:38,000
Speaker 1: people making this team. So I was just wondering what

1565
01:25:38,040 --> 01:25:41,559
Speaker 1: you guys thought about, what your thoughts on moving up

1566
01:25:41,560 --> 01:25:44,320
Speaker 1: in the draft. Yeah, I mean, I think Brandon Bean

1567
01:25:44,400 --> 01:25:47,679
Speaker 1: has shown that if he feels there is a run

1568
01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:50,640
Speaker 1: on a certain position, he will make a move up

1569
01:25:50,680 --> 01:25:52,760
Speaker 1: the board if he feels he needs to do so

1570
01:25:52,800 --> 01:25:55,040
Speaker 1: to secure one of the people he has in that

1571
01:25:55,160 --> 01:25:58,160
Speaker 1: particular tier on his board at a given position. I'm

1572
01:25:58,200 --> 01:26:01,400
Speaker 1: going to give you an example. Three years ago, there

1573
01:26:01,479 --> 01:26:04,559
Speaker 1: was a run on tight ends at the end of

1574
01:26:04,640 --> 01:26:07,400
Speaker 1: round two and in the early stages of round three,

1575
01:26:08,120 --> 01:26:10,680
Speaker 1: and Brandon being wanted one of the tight ends that

1576
01:26:10,760 --> 01:26:13,679
Speaker 1: he had grouped in that top tier, there was one

1577
01:26:13,800 --> 01:26:16,519
Speaker 1: left on the board and he traded up from round

1578
01:26:16,560 --> 01:26:19,759
Speaker 1: four to the bottom of round three to take Dawson Knox.

1579
01:26:20,200 --> 01:26:24,080
Speaker 1: So he has shown if there is a player they

1580
01:26:24,160 --> 01:26:27,240
Speaker 1: covet at a position that they feel they want to

1581
01:26:27,280 --> 01:26:30,400
Speaker 1: have and there is a huge drop off from whatever

1582
01:26:30,520 --> 01:26:33,840
Speaker 1: grouping or cluster of players that have given position is there,

1583
01:26:34,280 --> 01:26:37,000
Speaker 1: he will not hesitate to make such a move. So

1584
01:26:37,400 --> 01:26:40,639
Speaker 1: you can't rule it out with Brandon Bean. I think

1585
01:26:40,680 --> 01:26:43,000
Speaker 1: it's harder to do in round one because the cost

1586
01:26:43,120 --> 01:26:45,720
Speaker 1: is far greater than it is going from round four

1587
01:26:45,760 --> 01:26:47,880
Speaker 1: to round three, for example. And just so you know,

1588
01:26:47,960 --> 01:26:51,200
Speaker 1: the Bills only have eight draft picks left because they

1589
01:26:51,360 --> 01:26:54,240
Speaker 1: parted with their ninth to acquire case Keenum. He's not

1590
01:26:54,240 --> 01:26:56,600
Speaker 1: gonna jump up for a guy that's fifty fifty of

1591
01:26:56,680 --> 01:26:59,519
Speaker 1: making the team at all. But nine guys may stick

1592
01:26:59,560 --> 01:27:02,519
Speaker 1: around for a year or two on the practice squad

1593
01:27:02,560 --> 01:27:04,720
Speaker 1: and that kind of thing. So nine guys may hang

1594
01:27:04,760 --> 01:27:06,240
Speaker 1: around for a year even if they don't make the

1595
01:27:06,240 --> 01:27:09,320
Speaker 1: active roster, and it'll be this. You're right, he may

1596
01:27:09,360 --> 01:27:10,880
Speaker 1: trade up to get a guy who's got a better

1597
01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:13,960
Speaker 1: chance of actually making the roster. But don't think that

1598
01:27:14,000 --> 01:27:16,280
Speaker 1: they won't take a guy with some trades who they think,

1599
01:27:16,320 --> 01:27:19,200
Speaker 1: if he can get stashed on the practice squad in

1600
01:27:19,280 --> 01:27:21,639
Speaker 1: a year or two, will become a Dawson Knox, where

1601
01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:24,320
Speaker 1: a guy who is kind of more it'll kind of okay,

1602
01:27:24,640 --> 01:27:26,439
Speaker 1: but then all of a sudden, now he's a stud

1603
01:27:26,439 --> 01:27:29,400
Speaker 1: because they had enough time and they drafted him so

1604
01:27:29,439 --> 01:27:31,840
Speaker 1: they could develop him, and he did develop. So that

1605
01:27:31,920 --> 01:27:34,200
Speaker 1: kind of stuff's all on the table, and I'm with

1606
01:27:34,240 --> 01:27:36,719
Speaker 1: you what you said at the top. They're not taking

1607
01:27:36,760 --> 01:27:39,400
Speaker 1: a running back At twenty five break time for us.

1608
01:27:39,400 --> 01:27:40,840
Speaker 1: Steve and I close it up next year on one

1609
01:27:40,880 --> 01:27:55,920
Speaker 1: Bild's Live stay tuned. All right, before we go for

1610
01:27:56,000 --> 01:28:00,879
Speaker 1: the day, we should point a point out. Kevin Seaford

1611
01:28:00,960 --> 01:28:04,599
Speaker 1: from ESPN is reporting this. He did a full story

1612
01:28:04,840 --> 01:28:08,360
Speaker 1: on NFL owners who have mandated the use of the

1613
01:28:08,439 --> 01:28:11,360
Speaker 1: guardian caps during the early part of training camp for

1614
01:28:11,439 --> 01:28:15,240
Speaker 1: certain positions like linemen, along with a new standard for

1615
01:28:15,320 --> 01:28:18,760
Speaker 1: wearable technology in preseason practice. You remember last summer, a

1616
01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:22,280
Speaker 1: lot of the bills lineman had those inflatable you know,

1617
01:28:23,400 --> 01:28:26,600
Speaker 1: they're extra up casts and next top of their helmets

1618
01:28:26,680 --> 01:28:28,680
Speaker 1: kind of look jointed. You know, those are now going

1619
01:28:28,760 --> 01:28:31,519
Speaker 1: to be mandatory for the early portions of training camp.

1620
01:28:31,600 --> 01:28:33,880
Speaker 1: So when you go out to Saint John Fisher this summer,

1621
01:28:33,880 --> 01:28:35,519
Speaker 1: you're like, what the heck are those guys wearing on

1622
01:28:35,560 --> 01:28:38,040
Speaker 1: their head? That's what it is. It's a good move,

1623
01:28:38,240 --> 01:28:42,040
Speaker 1: special helmet for safety purposes. So hard to argue with

1624
01:28:42,080 --> 01:28:44,400
Speaker 1: that because the PA was obviously on board with the

1625
01:28:44,439 --> 01:28:48,639
Speaker 1: mandated use of those, just protecting the players from themselves.

1626
01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:53,040
Speaker 1: Quite frankly right, and I yeah you can't. Yeah, okay.

1627
01:28:53,520 --> 01:28:55,479
Speaker 1: They don't really bang into each other as much as

1628
01:28:55,560 --> 01:28:59,599
Speaker 1: you know, and it just keeps and the problems you

1629
01:28:59,640 --> 01:29:01,880
Speaker 1: have sometimes in training camp. And we'll get into this

1630
01:29:02,040 --> 01:29:04,920
Speaker 1: later on, but some young guys go really fast and

1631
01:29:04,960 --> 01:29:06,840
Speaker 1: hard because they're all jacked up, and the old guys

1632
01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:08,479
Speaker 1: are like sitting there. So that's when guys getting hurt.

1633
01:29:08,479 --> 01:29:10,200
Speaker 1: One guy's kind of going half speed as a walk through,

1634
01:29:10,240 --> 01:29:12,240
Speaker 1: and the other kid slams into him because he's got

1635
01:29:12,280 --> 01:29:15,240
Speaker 1: an adrenaline pump in his first NFL practice, So they

1636
01:29:15,320 --> 01:29:18,240
Speaker 1: keep that from happening. Tomorrow, we've got Dan hand Zeus

1637
01:29:18,280 --> 01:29:20,920
Speaker 1: from NFL dot Com. What's he saying in his latest

1638
01:29:21,000 --> 01:29:23,280
Speaker 1: NFL rankings. I think the Bills are pretty high on

1639
01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:31,040
Speaker 1: that list. We'll see tomorrow at one