All this talk about the fans, but as the Dolphins-Bills game in Toronto looms just 18 days from now, what about the people who rely upon the Bills playing eight regular-season home games in order to maintain a livelihood?

I spoke to a few scalpers Monday in Orchard Park. Instead of making the trip to Toronto, most of them are going to head to Pittsburgh on Dec. 7 to work the Cowboys-Steelers game, meaning they’ll have to pay for gas and hotel rooms.

They said the Miami home game is usually one of the most lucrative games they work. They’re taking a hit.

Hard to feel sorry for scalpers? Fine. But what about the dozens of vendors lined up and down Abbott Road selling merchandise?

“They’re taking two home games away from us,” one vendor told me. “And the taxpayers of Erie County pay for that damn stadium.”

“Is it hurting us? Hell yeah.”

Another vendor said, simply, “It sucks. It hurts.”

I asked him if he felt people like him have been overlooked in this process.

“I think the whole city’s been overlooked.”

Some had a more positive outlook than others: “They took a game away,” said another vendor. “Hopefully we can get in the playoffs and make it up.”

After Monday night’s game, the possibility of that happening isn’t looking too good, either.