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Barring something surprising, the Buffalo Bills have likely played their final game in Highmark Stadium, which first opened in 1973 under the name Rich Stadium.
Beginning in 2026, the Bills will move into the new Highmark Stadium, which is currently under construction just across the street from the current stadium.
When Buffalo does finally move out, it plans to auction off a number of parts of the old stadium to fans who want to take home a piece of history.
That’s not uncommon for sports franchises. In fact, even college programs have begun auctioning off things such as stadium seats and signage.
What is uncommon, however, is how far the Bills are going to in order to ensure that everything goes.
Buffalo Bills To Auction Off Highmark Stadium Trough Urinals
Buffalo has teamed with auction group CollectibleXchange to allow fans to get their hands on parts of the stadium, even the parts that far too many hands … and other body parts, may have already touched.
“There’s definitely the troughs in the bathroom,” Brandon Steiner, the founder of CollectibleXchange, told Buffalo-Toronto Public Media. “There’s some stuff in some of the suites that are interesting, great photos, stuff maybe in the locker room that could be kind of quirky, one offs, that sort of thing.”
That’s right. The Bills are removing the old-school trough urinals from their men’s bathrooms and selling them to fans.
And while your first reaction would tell you that nobody would want something so gross, you’d probably be surprised.
“I knew it’d be fun taking the stadium apart, because I know it’d be meaningful,” Steiner said. “You know, memorabilia is meaningful memories. I always say they call it memorabilia, but it’s meaningful memories. And I felt like I’d go create some really cool products.”
Because nothing quite says Man Cave like a trough-style urinal.