Our vaportecture cup runneth over! Just one day after the Tennessee Titans released renderings of their proposed $2 billion–plus stadium — kind of bland renderings, but renderings nonetheless — the Buffalo Bills followed suit with images of their proposed $2 billion–plus stadium. Will these be any more impressive, or at least feature giant bison statues? Let’s find out!
The giant mega-bison — sadly without the mega-horns that actual giant bison sported — are the clear centerpiece here, though there’s a lot else to see, from the kids at lower right happily building snowmen with the snow that the Bills apparently won’t be bothering to shovel from the paths leading to the stadium, to the strange future custom of Bills fans carrying giant V-shaped sculptures with them into games. Will the interior of the stadium portray equally odd behaviors?
This looks remarkably like the Titans’ stadium interior image, only without a roof and with somehow three separate levels of club seats before you get to the upper deck. (It actually looks to be four levels at left, so either the stadium will be asymmetrical, or the renderers lost count.) The Bills appear to either be preparing a goal-line drive or defending against one, something that has fans in the foreground raising their fists in the air, as one does before a play has even started; or maybe they’re just excitedly cheering the images being shown on the video board, which looks to depict Bills players on the sidelines raising something in the air in triumph.
The Bills’ accompanying PR material describes this as “an intimate yet intimidating football-first seating bowl that harnesses the energy of the fans,” with that “intimate” especially dubious given that you have to go back 30 rows of seats horizontally before you get to the bulk of the seating bowl, and those aforementioned stacks of club seats are going to raise the cheap seats high into the stratosphere. It’s also worth noting that all the renderings are labeled “subject to change,” meaning there is no particular reason to believe that any stadium that eventually gets built will look anything like these images. Or maybe they just mean they’re open to suggestions for improvements? If so, put me down for some giant-horned bison, please — those kids will need something to climb once they’re done with their snowmen.
I remember a rendering of Yankee Stadium in the 1974 Yankee Yearbook with giant scoreboards and such. Nothing like what we got in 1976. Renderings are like campaign promises, don’t mean much.
Ooh, I might have that yearbook. Let me see if I can dig the image up.
It just looks like a giant sinkhole to me.
For taxpayer dollars, that is. Good luck New Yorkers! Too bad you have a governor who no-one elected and who never met a public spending extravaganza she didn’t like in charge.
I’m sure this will go well.
To be fair, Hochul was elected as lieutenant governor. And is likely to be elected as governor soon, since she’s running against a lunatic crime-fearmongering election-fraud truther. Or, you know, won’t be, which will surely go much better.
She was second on the Cuomo ticket wasn’t she? I sometimes wonder if anyone even reads the first name on the ballot, let alone the ones further down.
Fair enough, she’s one step up on Gerald Ford then… and it wouldn’t surprise me if she loses to the lunatic election fraud “truther” either.
From the ESPN article:
“The canopy will cover 65% of the seats and help protect against wind and precipitation. It will work together with the perforated multidimensional exterior skin of the stadium that creates wind confusion to prevent swirling winds from getting to the field level.”
Nothing like a building confusing the wind with it’s multidimensional skin.
Not sure I’ve ever seen one-dimensional skin, unless cartoon characters count.
Bills keep on bilkin’. Stay classy NY. Excelsior.
Also saw this which made meauhh, especially the minister’s comments.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/oct/27/mexico-host-bid-for-2036-summer-olympics
This is basically the Bills saying, “yeah we know Western New York won’t be hosting any Super Bowl games or concerts with A-list artists, don’t @ us.”