I hear that in Buffalo , a lot of people are angry at the Bills new stadium situation, because the Bills are requiring people to pay a personal seat license fee, in order to be able to buy season tickets.
That seems really odd to me. You can’t just buy season tickets. You have to pay this license fee of thousands of dollars to have the privilege of buying the actual tickets.
I don’t understand why modern stadiums cost billions of dollars. Some stadiums built about 20 years ago costed hundreds of millions , but now it seems like every new stadium is over a billion.
Building material and inflation might account for some of the extra cost
But most of the extra cost is the kick backs. Greedy greasy dim politicians are demanding unreasonable amounts.
Not like the old days when most were okay skimming a little off the top.
They're adding even more luxury boxes in them.
They had no choice because Buffalo is a $#itty town so the owner was going to move the team to Austin, Salt Lake City or San Antonio.
PSLs have been around since the 80s. And yeah it’s a total money grab. Basically it gives you first dibs on season tickets, and in some of the stadium non-sports events.
As for why they cost billions now. Bells and whistles. These aren’t the stadiums of yesteryear. The seats are basically luxury car seats. You’ve got these massive 4K jumbotrons. Not to mention wild architecture. The concrete bowl with wooden seats is gone. They make palaces now.