Fan comfort top priority but no roof

Drove through orchard park a couple weeks ago, and construction on the new stadium is really moving along. Gonna be sad to see the Ralph go

He was a terrible Bills coach. What a waste of time. It was hard being a Bills fan at that point.

I was there for that 1st game. Traffic was terrible. My dad and i got there just before halftime. No one was at the gate handing out the little gold coins to commemorate the first game so my dad grabbed a handful of the little packets. I still have them. Great memories. It will always be Rich Stadium to me!

What the Video Post Did not tell you is the This Stadium had the Very First Video Board able to show replays and Ads and even tho it was Black & White, it was truly State of the Art!

Commenter says 600 men working; I was one, sounds a little high, but not totally unrealistic. Contrast that to predictions that new stadium will involve 10,000 jobs--wildly overstated IMO.

And for 4 years were very good

The team was pretty good. Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas and Bruce Smith. Good QB and Running Back and Defensive End

It was nice, back in the 70,s and 80,s We went to several games at the old stadium. Back then it was Rich Stadium

It took until now for them to finally replace it

It's still here

I love this. Stadium love

Amazing

5:11, my cousin Butch Byrd. His records still stand up!

I wish they would have inside building

Bills had absolutely no passing game until Jim Kelly

So neat to have this available at our fingertips. Thank You for posting. Bills always have fielded a blue collar team. Stratton was a defensive baller!

I grew up and lived right next to the stadium. 7/11 was a minute walk from my place. As a kid I would collect cans and get 5 cents for each one. My front yard would have a mountain of cans. I would make nearly 300$ every home game from age of 8 til 13. Along with charging 20$ for parking in my parents yard. Had enough room for 12 vehicles. I started working at the stadium at 16 yrs old just so I could see the football game for free. I got to see all 4 years of playoffs and seasons during the super bowl streak. Kelly, Thomas, metzellars, smith, reed , Beebe. Etc.. so many iconic players during that time. Buffalo was a great place during that time. Memories

OJ Simpson's Rookie Season. Like Him or Not.

I wish they built it in a dome

2:46 "The newest and most modern facility in the National Football League..." FIrst, that was a lie. Arrowhead already had it beat. Second, Rich Stadium opened ahead of the Superdome only because Louisiana waited FIVE YEARS between approving the bonds for the stadium and breaking ground. It should have ready in 1972.

When Jefferson Kaye mentions the opponents coming to Buffalo in 1973, he could have mentioned all of them, since at the time, teams knew years in advance who they would play every year home and away. For the record the other teams which came to Buffalo in '73 were Philadelphia, Kansas City and Cincinnati.

Juice....

I had season tickets right near the tunnel. $70 for 10 games. It was awesome to see OJ run for 2000 yards that year.

So, why is it so much more difficult to build a stadium today?

2027 New Stadium opening up right across Abbott road.

It is time for an update.

there are still people in Buffalo that remain bitter about the trade to Oakland of QB Daryle Lamonica--Lamonica went on to have a stellar career (several MVP in the AFL awards)-stupid trade-especially with Jack Kemp's career winding down and essentially no heir apparent---the hiring of former Raider coach John Rauch also turned out to be a "bust"

That was one rough road back that led to going over a cliff as 70-72 were some of the toughest/worst years in our history. That 71 team ranks as one of the top all time worst in NFL history after a promising 1970. The fall back just a year later was unbelievable. But this team in those years had a very bad mixture of end of the road veterans and too fresh rookies along with alot of injuries on that very offensive line (probably the result of getting manhandled game in and game out). This led to the promising Shaw to become buried deep under the Rockpile dirt/mud the next 2 years. Who knows how many concussions the kid suffered in his bloodbath just to survive? He also had 3 head coaches in 3 years!

And were still here in 2021... Crazy

Hardly anyone remembers this, but it was originally supposed to be a domed stadium.

So this is where OJ learned to cut and slice and penetrate.

Wow. The Ralph.

Yo who’s watching this in 2021

Seriously people the house OJ built

The music sounds like it came from a Bruce Lee movie. Love it!

Cool, but I wish we had a dome now that we have a passing offense! :)

Ohhh color tv! Has to be below ground because above ground in the winter you'll freeze your ass off!!! 😂😂🤣🤣

It's crazy to think that after beating the Dolphins they wouldn't beat them again until 11 years later.

I was there for the Vikings-Bills game in 2006 wearing Purple and I did get a lot of shit for it but at least Bills fans aren't violent like Eagles fans in Philadelphia. Great tailgating but not impressed with the Stadium, Beer sales cut off after Halftime, they served Pepsi products at the Concessions but couldn't get a Mountain Dew and that seemed weird.

If there aren't buffalo wings at the concession stands, then what good are the concession stands?

To bad Abbott road has become like the moon surface.

Been to that stadium many times with the last one being that 42-17 win over the Phins. It's amazing that it is sill where they are 47 years later

War Memo was easily the worst stadium in pro football and the backdrop for the movie "the Natural"

I don't know why I am watching this, but it's cool.

"huckster" "flim-flam man"

If will always be rich stadium to us buffaloians

Still in fantastic shape and near the top for capacity keep updated yearly we don't need a new stadium why????? It's just fine and so much history inside this place

Awesome footage. While I appreciate what the Ralph Wilson stadium was, today it's just an antiquated hulking beast too far out in the suburbs that's now just an enormous pain in the ass for us city residents to get to, with or without a car. For god sake the NFTA doesn't even run game day busses out there anymore. We need a new downtown stadium like a normal city. All the city's other teams get the convenience of facilities being downtown, but not the bills.

I was there for the first preseason game against the Redskins on August 17 1973. The Redskins ran the opening kickoff back for a TD. We were all given a gold colored coin to commemorate the event - which I still have.