Will some fans get left out at new Bills stadium?

There currently are 63,000 of them. But the new stadium will only seat a little over 60,000.

That means almost 3,000 current season ticket holders – and possibly more if the team intends to hold back some seats for individual game ticket purchasers – could be left out in the cold when the new stadium opens.

But that’s assuming all of them want to make the move to the new stadium and that the Bills want all current season ticket holders to remain.

The reality is some current season ticket holders likely won’t be interested, or may not be able to afford it, while the team is trying to limit season ticket accounts deemed to be run by brokers, who primarily buy the seats so they can put them up for sale – hopefully at a profit – on the secondary ticket market. Some of these brokers can own hundreds of season tickets on one account.

Ticket prices will certainly be higher at the new stadium – the team hasn’t said yet by how much – and that could squeeze out some ticket holders.

And then there are the personal seat licenses that season ticket holders will be required to purchase – again, the Bills have yet to say how much they will cost. But that could add several thousand dollars to the upfront cost of each seat, especially ones in prime locations and potentially price season tickets out for working-class ticket holders.

While the Bills cannot forbid the purchasing of season tickets at the new stadium for the singular purpose of reselling them, they can institute new terms and conditions, including a ticket maximum for each season ticket holder account. At the new stadium, that will likely be eight.

The Bills seem to recognize all of that could mean thousands of season ticket holders won’t come with them to the new stadium.

So, even though their season ticket base currently is big enough to fill every seat in the new stadium and leave a few thousand out…