Bills Accidentally Ask Fans to Call Domestic Violence Hotline to Obtain Ticket Refunds

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Bills fans who purchased tickets for Sunday's Jets/Bills game in Buffalo will not be able to attend the game anymore. The NFL announced that the game will actually take place on Monday night in Detroit because of crazy snowstorms that have shut down the Buffalo area.

So right now, there are thousands and thousands of fans who are trying to get refunds for the tickets that they purchased to the game. However, it's become a bit of a nightmare for them because the Bills accidentally posted the phone number of a domestic violence hotline in Ohio on their website late yesterday and told fans to call it to get refunds. And the hotline got so many calls that it started to ask people not to call anymore because they could potentially block someone who needed assistance with a domestic violence-related situation from getting through.

Fortunately, the Bills finally got wind of this and changed the number, and fans are now being asked to call 1-877-228-4257 for refunds. But the wrong number was posted for quite awhile, meaning that the hotline had to deal with a lot of angry Bills fans over the last 12 hours or so. What a week for the city of Buffalo.

[via Deadspin]

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