Bills fan Paul Wujek, who takes clients to every home game, said this is the type of game fans have been anticipating for years, with the winner advancing to play in the AFC championship game. “You got to be there at the stadium for this one, ” said Wujek, who works for Lighthouse Technology Services. With more than $8. 7 million in donations pouring in from roughly 245, 000 donors since Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest during a Jan. 2 game in Cincinnati, the Chasing M's Foundation has taken on an unimagined scale. The teams also met in a much-anticipated Monday Night Football game on Jan. 2 that was never finished after Hamlin collapsed.
The second-year professional was injured on a tackle he made and had to be resuscitated on the field after he stopped breathing, leading to the decision to halt the game while it was still in the first quarter. The NFL decided it would not be continued, and the Bills wound up as the second seed in the AFC playoffs. The Bengals are the third seed, with one game separating the two teams. The last time the Bills hosted a divisional round game where a full crowd capacity was allowed inside the stadium was in January 1994, when the team defeated the Los Angeles Raiders on their way to a fourth straight Super Bowl appearance.
com, said last week. “You usually see prices slide as the game gets closer, and then you’ll start seeing a lot more buyers, and prices will then increase again. ”Budelli said while many fans do wait for ticket prices to come down before buying, the more affordable seats in the 300 level or in the corners and end zones are the ones that will go the fastest. “As the number of tickets go down, it is always harder to predict where the market will go, ” he said.
“I can’t speak for Bills fans, but this certainly seems to have become the trajectory for the team, and everyone is ready for them to take that next step, which is why we’ve continuously seen a lot of demand – particularly for this game, but also in general – from Bills fans. ”But even with the game selling well, ticket prices are going down on the secondary market as the game gets closer – a trend that happens for most NFL regular season and playoff matchups. Buffalo ticket reselling company VIPTIX.
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Sales for Bills-Bengals are also on track to surpass demand for both the Bills-Chiefs and Bengals-Tennessee Titans divisional round games last season on StubHub. Prices dropped substantially for last weekend’s wildcard game between the Bills and Miami Dolphins because, experts in secondary market ticket sales said, the Dolphins were playing with a third-string quarterback, the lack of interest from Miami fans to travel to Buffalo in January and Bills fans anticipating a long postseason run and saving money to attend future playoff games. “With the game not being completed in Cincinnati, to now see it in the divisional round creates a lot of excitement, ” said Adam Budelli, spokesperson for StubHub.
com had the cheapest seat for the divisional round in Buffalo around this time last week listed at $260 in total, but that price has gone down by nearly $100. On Ticketmaster, the cheapest resale ticket is now going for $170, including fees. Damar Hamlin is looking to trademark “Did we win” and “Three is back, ” according to filings from Jan. 6 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. “You look at the supply number, and that kinds of tells us what will happen with prices, ” Nick Giammusso, owner of VIPTIX.
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