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Wilson bought this team in October of 1959. The team started play in '60. The 50th year anniversary of that first season will be during the '09 season.
Often times people well-known for something pass away at significant dates such as that. Charles Shultz, the founder/creator of Peanuts did that at his 50th anniversary of starting the cartoon.
It's pretty clear that Wilson's faculties are leaving him in spite of notions that some think that for 87 last year he is mentally relatively sharp, which may very well be the case.
But based on his most recent statements he clearly has no fire anymore to see this team, his own team, actually field a winner. Amongst many statements otherwise all but assuring that the Bills won't remain in Buffalo after his death, he made absolutely no mention of having a winning team or even showing that he in fact even cared about having one.
Every time he makes a press conference nowadays it's more than clear that he's not winning the battle against "Father Time." If you compare him to when he appeared just three or four seasons ago it's astonishing how far he seems to have regressed in that way.
I just have a hunch that at the 50th anniversary of a team clearly going nowhere over the next few seasons given the path that we've chosen, and given the seeming lack by Wilson of seeing anything more than a bunch of players called the Bills run around on a field in a stadium that bears his name, that following the 50th season of existence, Wilson will pass away. Frankly, if not sooner although I imagine that he can make it 'til then.
Either way, if that does in fact happen, the team will be sold sometime following that season and likely prior to the start of the '10 season. If so, the '10 season would likely be the last in Buffalo b/c let's face it, Wilson has all but made it impossible for the team to remain in an economic climate such as WNY by his own choosing.
Which on a side note doesn't really rub very well with all those suggesting that all that Wilson cares about is the fans. He's clearly thinking only about his own family here. Which isn't wrong, but let's at least call it what it is and ditch all the statements about how he's so altruistic in caring about the fans whom clearly take the back seats on this bus.
So IMO expect the Bills to play in Buffalo no longer than '10 if not even sooner. I can easily see Wilson passing anytime now. He simply doesn't look too good anymore when he goes public.
Often times people well-known for something pass away at significant dates such as that. Charles Shultz, the founder/creator of Peanuts did that at his 50th anniversary of starting the cartoon.
It's pretty clear that Wilson's faculties are leaving him in spite of notions that some think that for 87 last year he is mentally relatively sharp, which may very well be the case.
But based on his most recent statements he clearly has no fire anymore to see this team, his own team, actually field a winner. Amongst many statements otherwise all but assuring that the Bills won't remain in Buffalo after his death, he made absolutely no mention of having a winning team or even showing that he in fact even cared about having one.
Every time he makes a press conference nowadays it's more than clear that he's not winning the battle against "Father Time." If you compare him to when he appeared just three or four seasons ago it's astonishing how far he seems to have regressed in that way.
I just have a hunch that at the 50th anniversary of a team clearly going nowhere over the next few seasons given the path that we've chosen, and given the seeming lack by Wilson of seeing anything more than a bunch of players called the Bills run around on a field in a stadium that bears his name, that following the 50th season of existence, Wilson will pass away. Frankly, if not sooner although I imagine that he can make it 'til then.
Either way, if that does in fact happen, the team will be sold sometime following that season and likely prior to the start of the '10 season. If so, the '10 season would likely be the last in Buffalo b/c let's face it, Wilson has all but made it impossible for the team to remain in an economic climate such as WNY by his own choosing.
Which on a side note doesn't really rub very well with all those suggesting that all that Wilson cares about is the fans. He's clearly thinking only about his own family here. Which isn't wrong, but let's at least call it what it is and ditch all the statements about how he's so altruistic in caring about the fans whom clearly take the back seats on this bus.
So IMO expect the Bills to play in Buffalo no longer than '10 if not even sooner. I can easily see Wilson passing anytime now. He simply doesn't look too good anymore when he goes public.
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