Highmark Stadium: The final season
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The Buffalo Bills are building a new, more than $2 billion stadium across the street from their current home, Highmark Stadium. Here's a look at some stories about the final season at what began as Rich Stadium in 1973.聽
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The echoes of Highmark Stadium are infamous among singers who have performed there over the past half-century.
The Buffalo Bills have asked Erie County to evaluate a proposed change to the 2023 new stadium agreement allowing them to hold onto the three-story, 30,000-square-foot old administration building when the team demolishes their current stadium in 2027.
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More than two dozen members of the McGroder family will be back at Highmark Stadium on Sunday. They're coming from Phoenix and New York City and Chicago and Durham, N.C., to see the old place one last time聽鈥 and to see the name of their patriarch on the wall alongside so many of the other all-time greats of Bills' history.
Journalist Dave Levinthal "paid for his childhood season tickets by delivering newspapers聽鈥 and for his new ones by delivering news," Brady writes.
Ryan Fitzpatrick 鈥 who played for nine NFL teams 鈥 reflected on why he fell in love with the Bills fan base. 鈥淲e鈥檙e kind of the same,鈥 he said. 鈥淲e are gritty and have been knocked down at times and have a true love and passion for the Bills and football, and we take a lot of pride in it.鈥
Tickets are expensive to see the Buffalo Bills play in their final season at Highmark Stadium. It鈥檚 due to a combination of the Bills being a Super Bowl contender this season and fans trying to get an opportunity to see the team play one last time in Highmark Stadium.
Buffalo News contributing columnist聽Erik Brady lists his top 30 of聽the greatest games ever played in the old Bills stadium.
Longtime friends Don Beebe and Steve Tasker paid a visit to their old Buffalo Bills locker room at Highmark Stadium and the memories came flooding back.
Scott Radecic, a former Bills player, is a founder of the Kansas City-based architectural firm Populous and a co-leader on the design of the Bills鈥 future stadium. He's focused on 11 months from now, when the 53-year-old Highmark Stadium closes and the new one opens.
As the Buffalo Bills prepare this week for their last home opener at the stadium formerly known as Rich, here鈥檚 a look at the life of John Leypoldt, who scored all of the Bills' points in their first home opener there.
"The goodbyes we'll see come January in Orchard Park will conjure familiar feelings for those of us old enough to remember the farewell to Buffalo's other major sports homes,"聽Mike Harrington writes. "My sense is we're not remotely as sad about leaving the building as we are about leaving the memories behind."
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The last hurrah: Saying goodbye to Highmark Stadium
On Sunday, the Buffalo Bills will play what is likely their final game at Highmark Stadium. For more than 50 years, the Bills have called it h…
The Bills aren't alone. There are at least seven other stadium projects underway or in the works. They come with different asks for public funding, and most with plans for surrounding development around the building to make the projects more than just a stadium.
