When the Bills’ game was moved to Ford Field in Detroit, stadium staff tried on Sunday to make as much of the pregame and in-game programming the same as it would be at Highmark Stadium. There were the same videos, the same music, the same sounds. Some things were a little different.
Ahead of the game, punter Sam Martin was featured in live shots on the Jumbotron a bit more than usual. Bills fans are still getting to know Martin. After all, he’s punted just 20 times this season for Buffalo. No team has punted less.
With the late-week location switch, the camera and Jumbotron crews were made up of a combination of people from both the Bills and Lions staff. They made sure to zoom in on Martin, and also highlighted fans holding up signs for the punter.
Martin was a fifth-round pick of the Lions in 2013, and he spent his first seven seasons with Detroit. He then spent two…
