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The Buffalo Bills are moving into their new home at Highmark Stadium this season, but the $2.1 billion stadium isn't getting the praise team officials had hoped for.
Instead, fans are sounding the alarm online about a pretty fundamental problem for some seats: an inability to see the field.
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As detailed by John Breech of CBS Sports, of the nearly 52,000 fans who took in the stadium for the first time at a practice on Saturday, "hundreds of fans in the building had an obstructed view of the field."
Claims of Broken Promises
Fans online sounded off about their limited views, especially after they say they were promised by team officials that there wouldn't be any obstructed views.
Fans like Derrick Piatkowski said that during the construction process, fans were "pretty adamant about obstructed views."
He then showed a side-by-side of the renderings, which show very minimal obstruction from a railing, and the actual view from his seats.
"We were told it wouldnt be an issue. This is what we were shown, and this is the end result," he said. "This is not acceptable."
Another fan who goes by BuffaloWeather on X, formerly Twitter, noted the high price season ticket holders are paying for a partial view of the field.
“Whoever designed the new Bills stadium … wasn’t very keen to detail,” they wrote. “Imagine paying tens of thousands on PSLs [personal seat licenses] and season tickets and walk into a view like this…"
Fans have also taken the new stadium to task for its allegedly small video screens, something some fans have compared to the comically undersized plasma screen TV owned by Michael Scott of "The Office," explained Anna Lazarus Caplan of People.
In the team's defense, the stadium does offer a variety of other improvements over their former home, also called Highmark Stadium but perhaps more commonly known as Ralph Wilson Stadium.
There are massive open concourses, for instance, and a heater under the grass when temperatures get cold on the banks of Lake Erie.
It even includes a massive folding table as a nod to the team's superfans, the Bills Mafia, who are known for throwing themselves through folding tables to show their support.
Whether that's enough to appease angry fans with limited views, though, remains to be seen.
"If the team promised a seat without an obstructed view and didn't deliver, it should probably give impacted fans a discount on their tickets because you really shouldn't have to pay full price if you can't see the entire field," Breech noted.
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