You'll See the Bills on TV This Weekend, But...

Sunday's Bills game against the Miami Dolphins may be sold out, but the rest of the season, including Thursday's prime time game in Toronto, does not look as promising.

Out of the team's four remaining home games, tickets are still available for three of them. If the game is not sold out, the NFL forbids it from being televised locally, otherwise known as a "black out."

It's possible Thursday's 8pm game at the Rogers Centre in Toronto against the Jets, which will be nationally televised, may not be televised for local Bills fans. A quick check of Ticketmaster.com reveals that there are plenty of tickets left as of Friday evening.

The Rogers Centre will not reveal how many tickets are unsold, but has publicly promised there will be no blackout.

Last year, during the Bills pre-season game there, the Rogers Centre reportedly had to give away 17,000 tickets just to avoid an embarrassing black out. A Toronto Sun columnist said scalpers were selling $200 dollar tickets for 10 bucks.

The Rogers Centre did manage to sell out last year's regular-season game at the last minute, although several empty seats were visible.

Next week's game may be an even tougher sell in the eyes of Ontarian football fans.

"I think everyone is a skeptic in my neck of the woods, to a degree," said Ray Honey a Bills fan from King City Ontario, which is north of Toronto.

REPORTER: Are you going to buy a ticket?

HONEY: No. No.

REPORTER: Why not?

HONEY: I get it on tv.

REPORTER: If it sells out.

HONEY: There's other games

Maybe.

For the two final games at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, the Bills need to sell another 2,000 tickets for the Patriots matchup on December 20^th, and 7,500 for the January 3rd, regular-season finale against the Colts.

A Bills spokesman made no predictions about selling out the games, saying only that they're working hard to do so.