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Many Buffalo Bills fans now expect the worst. They almost can see moving vans backing up toward the team’s Orchard Park offices, following owner Ralph C. Wilson Jr.’s recent comments that the team will be sold after his passing.
Not so fast, say local business leaders who have worked with the Bills and are familiar with the challenge of keeping the team here for the long term.
These leaders, many involved with the Business Backs the Bills efforts that helped save the franchise in 1998, seem hopeful — but not giddy — about a new owner surfacing who would keep the team in Buffalo.
It's funny. If this was about the team leaving, It would have been posted with 8 pages of doom and gloom.
My favorite point:
Expansion fees for an LA team would be in the $1 Billion range. Which is over $30 mil a team.
I wonder why the league doesn't want teams to move?
They also mentioned that the league likes having small market teams and will go far to protect them.
But I'm sure many of you will doubt all of this.
Of course they've been talking about the Bills moving since about 1970! And they'll still be talking about it in 2030!
Not so fast, say local business leaders who have worked with the Bills and are familiar with the challenge of keeping the team here for the long term.
These leaders, many involved with the Business Backs the Bills efforts that helped save the franchise in 1998, seem hopeful — but not giddy — about a new owner surfacing who would keep the team in Buffalo.
It's funny. If this was about the team leaving, It would have been posted with 8 pages of doom and gloom.
My favorite point:
Expansion fees for an LA team would be in the $1 Billion range. Which is over $30 mil a team.
I wonder why the league doesn't want teams to move?
They also mentioned that the league likes having small market teams and will go far to protect them.
But I'm sure many of you will doubt all of this.
Of course they've been talking about the Bills moving since about 1970! And they'll still be talking about it in 2030!
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