What is Highmark Stadium?
[[File:Bills.jpg|thumb|220px| Highmark Stadium, Buffalo]] '''Highmark Stadium''' is a large [[stadium]] in [[Orchard Park (town), New York|Orchard Park, New York]].<ref name=sf>{{Cite web |url=http://www.buffalobills.com/tickets/stadium/facts-and-figures.html |title=Ralph Wilson Stadium Facts and Figures |work=buffalobills.com |accessdate=14 September 2012 |archive-date=2 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202222818/http://www.buffalobills.com/tickets/stadium/facts-and-figures.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is the home of the [[Buffalo Bills]] team.<ref name=sf/> The stadium has had several names during its history. It opened in 1973 as Rich Stadium, after the food products company of that name.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19890517&id=_WoaAAAAIBAJ&pg=2481,992293|newspaper=Milwaukee Journal|last=Fauber|first=John|title=What's in a name?|date=May 17, 1989|page=8C}}{{Dead link|date=January 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> After the sponsorship contract ran out in 1998, it was renamed Ralph Wilson Stadium in honor of [[Ralph Wilson]] (1918-2014), the team's founding owner from 1960 until his death in 2014.<ref>{{cite news|last=Warren|first=Matt|title=On the naming rights to Ralph Wilson Stadium|url=http://www.buffalorumblings.com/2009/5/9/868618/on-the-naming-rights-to-ralph|publisher=SBNation|date=May 9, 2009|access-date=August 19, 2016}}</ref> A new sponsorship contract with locally based headwear company New Era in 2016 led to a new name of New Era Field.<ref>{{cite press release|title=New Era Cap takes over stadium naming rights for Buffalo Bills; Team to now play at New Era Field|url=http://www.buffalobills.com/news/article-1/New-Era-Cap-takes-over-stadium-naming-rights-for-Buffalo-Bills-Team-to-now-play-at-New-Era-Field/79a13045-d8a8-48d0-beb2-33c452dc6421|publisher=Buffalo Bills|date=August 18, 2016|access-date=August 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819223632/http://www.buffalobills.com/n