Looks like it’s time for Professor Dickweed’s annual “screw everyone” event up in Toronto again.  It still pisses me off, and I’ll apologize in advance for the disjointed ramblings I am about to type.

He, along with Ralph Wilson, are screwing Torontonians by selling obscenely overpriced tickets, screwing Buffalonians by ripping one game a year away to have it played in a foreign country, and screwing the Bills themselves by calling this a “home” game in front of a dispassionate fanbase.  G’bye, homefield advantage!

Ralph Wilson sold us out to the dead guy carnival barker known around here as Professor Dickweed, and we’re only in year two of paying for it.

“But Kevin”, you may say, “the Bills need the money to be competitive in today’s NFL.”  To which I would respond, if the Bills are competitive, I would hate to see what the opposite looks like.

So, yeah, it’s a “sellout”, although somebody may want to tell Ticketmaster since I went online at Noon and found two tickets in the upper deck for a total of $331 Canadian.  The fourth-largest city in North America managed to sell 50,000 tickets to a football game!  Considering there were “plenty” of seats available three weeks ago, and the giveaways were plentiful, I am less than impressed.

From a Globe and Mail article:

There’s no arguing with the fact this has been a sports marketing disaster of epic proportions, beginning with that now-infamous opening news conference during which Ralph Wilson and the late Ted Rogers carnival barker Professor Dickweed seemed to be all but laughing at their potential paying customers.  (Note the Globe and mail may not have actually used the terms “Professor Dickweed” and “carnival barker”.)

So, fine.  We’ve established that Torontonians don’t want to pay these obscene prices to watch NFL football.  Not a knock on Toronto, because I wouldn’t pay those prices either. And we all know that the good people of Toronto would never overpay to watch a crappy team play a game, right?

To me it still feels personal.  After supporting this team for, well, my entire life the owner thought so little of me and my fellow fans that he took the money from an even bigger asshole and lined his pockets with it and left Buffalo in the lurch.

A stronger man would walk away.  A better man would quit the Bills because the owner does not give a damn about the fans.

So what am I going to do tonight?  Probably watch them between periods from HSBC and rush out after the game to watch the rest.  Why?  I wish I knew, because the Bills owner doesn’t deserve the fans they have.

Oh, and one more reason to hate that fat turd of a coach the Jets have:  he’s a Leafs fan.