The Bills Mafia brings their crowd noise to South Beach.
Bills fans flocked to the secondary ticket market this week to purchase tickets to Sunday night's Bills-Dolphins game in Miami after last week's results guaranteed the game would determine the AFC East champions. So many Bills fans have purchased tickets to the Dolphins' home game that ticket reseller VividSeats.com told WKBW in Buffalo that it estimates 52 percent of the Miami crowd will be Bills fans.
Nick Giammusso, who runs Buffalo ticket agency VIPTIX, told the Buffalo News that he saw a huge increase this week in what Bills fans were willing to pay to attend the game.
“It’s a hot ticket,” Giammusso said. “There is a lot at stake. It was moved to the prime time game on Sunday night, so obviously the NFL feels that way too.”
Russell Salvatore, a restaurant owner who hosts an event for Bills fans every year before the team's game in Miami, said he had far more requests this year than he had available space.
“If I had known about the huge response, I would have rented the Miami Convention Center,” Salvatore wrote on Facebook. “It kills me to have to say no to other people.”
The Dolphins offense may need to practice silent scoring this week. Bills fans will be loud.