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Video of new Highmark Stadium field construction reveals exciting new element

As the grass field is installed at the Buffalo Bills' new Highmark Stadium, we now have goal posts.

Richie Whitt

Fans react to a recovered fumble during the Bills game against the Baltimore Ravens at Highmark Stadium in Week 1.
Fans react to a recovered fumble during the Bills game against the Baltimore Ravens at Highmark Stadium in Week 1. / Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Democrat and Chronicle / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
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Construction on the Buffalo Bills' new Highmark Stadium is driving into the Red Zone.

Crews inside the team's new facility this week have been laying the two acres of Kentucky Bluegrass natural field. Good new, Bills Mafia: new Highmark also now has goal posts in the end zones.

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Set to the White Stripes' iconic and cliche "Seven Nation Army." there is a new look inside the stadium showing the grass and goal posts.

"It's been a very dark and gray facility for a long time," said Steve Ranalli of the Erie County Stadium Corporation. "But this makes it look and feel like the football field we're all hoping to see."

The new turf is being laid over a high-tech heating system that will keep the playing field at a temperature in the low 60s year-round. So if you're hoping to watch Josh Allen score a touchdown and celebrate with a snow angel in the end zone, you're out of luck.

WKBW-TV also got a sneak preview of the construction this week. Approximately 20,000 seats have been installed in the lower bowl. But not without some mystery and suspense. The seats seemed to be randomly different colors: blue and red. It's difficult at this point to make out a discernable pattern, but stay tuned.

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From the stadium's plot, it also appears the Bills sideline will mostly be in the shade during afternoon games while the opponents will be in the sun.

Ranalli says construction is now 70 percent complete and on schedule to be completed in July 2025.

Josh Allen TD
Josh Allen scores TD vs. Saints at Highmark Stadium / Mark Konezny-Imagn Images

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Richie Whitt
RICHIE WHITT

Richie Whitt has been a sports media fixture in Dallas-Fort Worth since graduating from UT-Arlington in 1986. His career is highlighted by successful stints in print (Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Dallas Observer), TV (NBC5) and radio (105.3 The Fan). During his almost 40-year tenure, he's blabbed and blogged on events ranging from Super Bowls to NBA Finals to World Series to Stanley Cups to Olympics to Wimbledons to World Cups. Whitt has been covering the NFL since 1989, and in 1993 authored The 'Boys Are Back, a book chronicling the Dallas Cowboys' run to Super Bowl XXVII.