Highmark Stadium (Buffalo Bills) [Bills Stadium/New Era Field]

Blanks are shredded bits of the plastic stadium seats mixed with complementary team-colored resin.

Available Sizes:

• Pen Blanks: Minimum 3/4" x 3/4" square
• Bottle Stopper and Ring Blanks: 1-1/2" round
• Full Pen Blocks: 6" x 5" and a minimum of 7/8" thick
• Knife Scale Pair: 2@ 5" x 1-1/2" x 3/8" minimum

All blanks include one Certificate of Authenticity (COA) per blank—a 4" x 6" card stock with foil-embossed seal, protected in a hard-shell plastic sleeve. Full Pen Blocks come with 10 COAs.

Most blanks are cut to order for freshness. Pen Blocks require a 2-3 week turnaround.

Highmark Stadium: Bills' Frozen Fortress of Gridiron Grit

Highmark Stadium, the thunderous throne of Buffalo Bills football, hunkers in the snowy suburbs of Orchard Park, New York—a blue-collar bastion forged in the fires of Western New York's unyielding spirit. Construction broke ground on August 17, 1972, after a 1971 bond vote greenlit a $60 million marvel to anchor the AFL-NFL merger era, designed by HNTB as a multi-sport mecca echoing Riverfront Stadium's horseshoe. It burst open on August 17, 1973, with the Bills edging the Jets 23-17 in preseason pandemonium before 78,133 fans under a sunny sky—christened Rich Stadium for founder Ralph Wilson Jr.'s oil-rooted riches, instantly etching Orchard Park onto the NFL map as Bills Mafia's sacred ground.

Launching at a roaring 80,020 capacity on Tartan Turf (standard 120x53.3-yard NFL battlefield), the open-air colossus—nicknamed "The Ralph" post-1998 rename—swelled to 73,967 through 2000s tweaks before a $390 million 2010-2016 renaissance slashed to 71,608 with horizon-level seating, the iconic Buffalo wall, and Hunt Real Estate suites, swapping to FieldTurf in 2011 for blizzard-proof play. Further facelifts—like 1994's upper deck surge, 2007's HD video boards, and 2023's $20 million sound system glow-up—blend raw, rattling intimacy with fan-favorite fury, where winds whip off Lake Erie and snowplows steal the show, cementing its rep as the NFL's coldest, loudest cauldron.

Bills' bedrock since kickoff, Highmark has cradled four straight AFC East crowns (2020-2023), Josh Allen's 2021-2023 MVP-caliber blitzes, and heartbreak heroes like the 1991-93 Super Bowl odysseys amid 13-0 comebacks and Wide Right woes—pulsing with 400+ home wins, 1991 AFC Championship clinch, and record roars (79,185 vs. Jets in 2008). Bills Mafia lore thrives in table-smashing tailgates, 2022 divisional drubbings, and viral snow games like the 2023 "Blizzard Bowl." Beyond pigskin, it hosts concerts, high school hoops, and craft beer fests, embodying Buffalo's resilient roar. As the Bills hunt Lombardi lore, Highmark Stadium endures as a frosty forge of fortitude, fandom, and frozen football folklore in the NFL's north.