You know, you really should look at what you are posting. The link from Answer.com actually comes from WIKIPEDIA. And the Wikipedia page only speculated that the reduction in seats was to meet TV blackout requirements.
Now, I suggest you go back to your own posts and read them because, until now, you didn't say a thing about the seats going into the luxury boxes or the club seating. You just said they were removed for "larger seats". If you are going to claim that you meant the boxes and club seating, I am going to laugh at you.
The fact remains that your original premise that Buffalo is a "small market" team and will be moved by the NFL when Ralph Wilson dies. All that has happened is that its been proven that your premise was flimsy at best. Including you mentioning that it was unlikely that the Bills could sell 86 luxury boxes. The fact is that they have 88 luxury boxes and another 76 "dugout" boxes that they sell.
I think its pretty clear that Wilson hasn't managed things as well as possible and that he could raise the ticket prices $10 across the board and it probably won't negatively impact his bottom line as long as he puts a decent product on the field.
I can tell you what was there before and after.
http://www.buffalobills.com/facility/SeatingChart.jsp
Jim Kelly's club boxes were there before, as were the press club boxes. They added luxry boxes in the end zone, Seneca Club, Goal line club, red zone club. Were seats removed from the end zone to make those clubs? It could be, but I seem to recall a short end zone tier with now current new construction there. On the flip side of the end zone, near the scoreboard, those are also new boxes. Now, in the past when I've been to the stadium, I've seen tarps on 338, 339, 328, 329, 316, 317, 306, 307. Not the light blue LL, but the corner tier dark blue, what they call UD-21-38. Now, just for the heck of it, I tried to buy season tickets on the website in those sections, and sure enough, I couldn't buy any tickets in the above named sections, which were the worst seats in the house. I tried to make it more difficult on the purchasing system by requesting 10 seats together in UD. None available, they kicked me over to the red section in the middle. That means there are no 10 seats together in any of the dark blue upper tier. So I tried 8 seats together and found them, but not in the corner sections that are the worst in the house.
You have to wonder, why do the Bills make it very difficult to sit in those corner sections?
We're talking about 4 to 8 sections of 30 seats a row, of 18 rows. That's 4320 seats. Not the 6,000 that gets you down to 74,000, but a good chunk nonetheless that they tarp. They may have pulled another 3k seats from elsewhere in the stadium to build some more, but I know I've seen the blue tarp in those areas during sellouts. And now you can't buy tickets in those sections.
Hmmmm.
I may be wrong, and really, this whole question of whether the seats exist is meaningless. The subject is whether Buffalo purposely cut down capacity in order to meet the nFL's sellout clause. Everyone here agrees on that. No one knows exactly how many seats were pulled in the renovation. So, why is this so controversial?