Massive Concern Buffalo Bills Will Be Working Around During Demolition

There is something that the demolition team is going to have to be concerned with when they knock down the stadium in Orchard Park, New York. There is a massive problem they are going to have to take care.

Will the Buffalo Bills be knocking down the Field House, which is right next to Highmark Stadium? Are the Buffalo Bills keeping the Field House?

If you are an avid Bills fan, you may already know this, but there is a family cemetery located at Highmark Stadium. You can see the video of the cemetery below, but it is something that WILL NOT be touched during the demo, and the crews are really going to have to be careful around the cemetery not to disturb it.

The Sheldon Family Cemetery is located between gates 6 and 7 at Highmark Stadium, and there is a sign that explains the cemetery. According to FindAGrave.com and Buffalo Magazine:

Football games are played where once the Sheldon farmed, and before that, Erie Indians lived. The Sheldon started burying their dead in the plot near Gate 7 in the 1830's, according to John Printy, Orchard Park town historian. There are about a dozen marked graves and an unknown number of others. The last body was interred in the 1940s.

You have probably seen the cemetery if you go in by gates 6 and 7. If not, all of the dozen or so graves are fenced in.

Two years ago, a Buffalo Bills fan came from out of town to hold a ceremony at the grave site at Highmark Stadium. Her name is Valerie Hill, and she is a member of the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Canada. Hill drove down before the Bills' home playoff game against the Patriots to hold an indigenous ceremony to get rid of the bad spirits at Highmark Stadium.

She burned tobacco, sage, sweetgrass, and some other things to get rid of the bad spirits ahead of the first playoff game for the Buffalo Bills. It seemed to work.