Bills Mafia won’t be doing backflips when they sit down in some of their seats at the brand new and highly expensive Highmark Stadium.
After a massive $2.2 billion price tag — $850 million of which was taxpayer money — on the Bills’ new stadium, fans are giving terrible reviews while season-ticket holders entered for the first Blue & Red practice, which set an attendance record of 51,807.
Fans took to social media to complain about poor sightlines and obstructions littered throughout the stadium.
“Whoever designed the new Bills stadium should wasn’t very keen to detail,” one fan posted on social media with accompanying pictures showing the field not being fully visible. “Imagine paying tens of thousands on PSLs and season tickets and walk into a view like this.”
“How is this f–ing possible,” another fan posted on X with a poorly obstructed view of the field from seats.
Complaints do not end there, though.
Fans are also frustrated with small video boards in the massive stadium, making it difficult to see anything of note.
Highmark Stadium was designed by Populous Holdings, which worked with the Bills on the design and has done most of the other NFL stadiums.
Traffic has long been an issue for the area, particularly during harsh winter weather around Orchard Park, which has significant winter weather late in the season thanks to the lake effect.
It has been known to infamously take fans hours to get out of the old stadium.
The new stadium’s concourses are drawing early praise, including a snapped folding table installed as a nod to Bills Mafia’s table-slamming tailgate tradition.
