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  • Illmatic15
    Registered User
    • Mar 2007
    • 516
    #1

    Toronto Could Land The Vikings Instead?

    Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/p...50807#comments

    At owners' meetings in Philadelphia this week, the NFL directed that an assessment of the Minnesota stadium situation be done before the end of the year, and the league plans to send representatives to Minneapolis to evaluate the viability and timeline for a new stadium. The Vikings are bound by lease to play in the Metrodome through the 2011 season.
    While in Minnesota, NFL officials are expected to meet with political, business and community leaders, then report the Vikings stadium status to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
    Toronto could become a bigger threat for a possible relocation site of the Vikings than Los Angeles.

    Buffalonians will be extememly happy, and people from toronto will be estatic having NFL in Toronto with Adrian Peterson!






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  • Michael82
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    • Jul 2002
    • 82328
    #2
    Re: Toronto Could Land The Vikings Instead?

    This would actually be the worst thing to happen to the Bills and it would most likely guarantee that the next team in California will be the Los Angeles Bills...
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    • Billscusey
      Registered User
      • Nov 2004
      • 1835
      #3
      Re: Toronto Could Land The Vikings Instead?

      Originally posted by Mikey82
      This would actually be the worst thing to happen to the Bills and it would most likely guarantee that the next team in California will be the Los Angeles Bills...
      You got it! Essentially there is no positive solution for the Bills. All roads lead to tragedy for them.
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      • Billscusey
        Registered User
        • Nov 2004
        • 1835
        #4
        Re: Toronto Could Land The Vikings Instead?

        Originally posted by Illmatic15
        Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/p...50807#comments

        At owners' meetings in Philadelphia this week, the NFL directed that an assessment of the Minnesota stadium situation be done before the end of the year, and the league plans to send representatives to Minneapolis to evaluate the viability and timeline for a new stadium. The Vikings are bound by lease to play in the Metrodome through the 2011 season.
        While in Minnesota, NFL officials are expected to meet with political, business and community leaders, then report the Vikings stadium status to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
        Toronto could become a bigger threat for a possible relocation site of the Vikings than Los Angeles.

        Buffalonians will be extememly happy, and people from toronto will be estatic having NFL in Toronto with Adrian Peterson!
        Whoa, whoa, whoa! Don't be posting stuff like that here! More rumours of a team coming here to Toronto are the last thing this message board needs! LOL!!!

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        • SABuffalo786
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          • Feb 2003
          • 1886
          #5
          Re: Toronto Could Land The Vikings Instead?

          So who's building that new stadium in LA for the Bills then?
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          • YardRat
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            • Dec 2004
            • 86189
            #6
            Re: Toronto Could Land The Vikings Instead?

            If Minnesota moves to Toronto, that'll kill whatever shot we have of increasing regional revenue and make the financial viability of the Bills even worse. Even if Jax jumped ship and went to LA before we did, Vegas is still an option for the new owner and Minnesota comes into play if they get serious about wooing another team.
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            • G. Host
              Banned
              • Jul 2002
              • 10298
              #7
              Re: Toronto Could Land The Vikings Instead?

              San Antonio will get a team before LV.
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              • TheGhostofJimKelly
                Registered User
                • May 2003
                • 12459
                #8
                Re: Toronto Could Land The Vikings Instead?

                Unless the players are going to be on skates, Toronto is not a sports city. They couldn't support the NBA and a struggling to keep up with MLB, I know the NFL is what it is, but I just can't see anything but trouble with a move to Toronto for any team.
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                • DynaPaul
                  Registered User
                  • Sep 2003
                  • 7540
                  #9
                  Re: Toronto Could Land The Vikings Instead?

                  Neither can LA. I don't know why the NFL has such an itch to get a team back there. No team has ever really built a football fanbase or succeeded in LA. There are other cities out there who'd benefit from an NFL team rather than adding a 4th team to the state of California.
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                  • Mr. Pink
                    Peterman Sucks!
                    • Mar 2006
                    • 35303
                    #10
                    Re: Toronto Could Land The Vikings Instead?

                    Originally posted by DevilPaul
                    Neither can LA. I don't know why the NFL has such an itch to get a team back there. No team has ever really built a football fanbase or succeeded in LA. There are other cities out there who'd benefit from an NFL team rather than adding a 4th team to the state of California.
                    I have to somewhat disagree with this...to an extent.

                    The Los Angeles Rams were highly successful for an extended period of time. You do realize they were in LA longer than we've had the Bills, I assume. From 1946 to 1994. We're close to passing them, I know.

                    They won NFL titles in LA. The largest crowd ever for an NFL game was held there. 102,368 people watched the Rams defeat the 49ers back in 1957.

                    And then there's the whole they're the second largest TV market in America thing.

                    I won't even touch on the Raiders, because Al Davis has played both Oakland and LA for new stadiums during his tenure and left both when he didn't get one.

                    Now? who knows if a team could survive or work there for the long period. Initially the team would do well just because it's "new" again. Rams attendance sagged in the early 90s while playing in Anaheim, but is that because the Raiders came to LA? Then Davis moved the Raiders a year after the Rams left. You could say that as of right now, Al Davis killed football in Los Angeles and the NFL has been trying to put a team back there ever since.

                    And each time the NFL has tried, stadium talks have stalled.

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                    • doug45
                      Registered User
                      • Jul 2002
                      • 1331
                      #11
                      Re: Toronto Could Land The Vikings Instead?

                      Originally posted by Mikey82
                      This would actually be the worst thing to happen to the Bills and it would most likely guarantee that the next team in California will be the Los Angeles Bills...

                      Mikey is correct, this would hurt the Bills to no end. Football needs to stay in the states.

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                      • bills_7
                        TIM COUCH IS MY HERO!
                        • Mar 2004
                        • 1010
                        #12
                        Re: Toronto Could Land The Vikings Instead?

                        70% of Bills fans are from toronto anyway the NFL would dumb not to bring the bills to Canada and Toronto there is so much more money in it for them in Toronto

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                        • plundar
                          Registered User
                          • Mar 2006
                          • 135
                          #13
                          Re: Toronto Could Land The Vikings Instead?

                          What bothers me is that California has 3 teams. They had 2 in LA before that and they couldn't keep them. Why is there a big push for a team there.

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                          • Nighthawk
                            Getting old waiting for a championship in Buffalo!
                            • Jul 2002
                            • 15437
                            #14
                            Re: Toronto Could Land The Vikings Instead?

                            Originally posted by Illmatic15
                            Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/p...50807#comments

                            At owners' meetings in Philadelphia this week, the NFL directed that an assessment of the Minnesota stadium situation be done before the end of the year, and the league plans to send representatives to Minneapolis to evaluate the viability and timeline for a new stadium. The Vikings are bound by lease to play in the Metrodome through the 2011 season.
                            While in Minnesota, NFL officials are expected to meet with political, business and community leaders, then report the Vikings stadium status to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
                            Toronto could become a bigger threat for a possible relocation site of the Vikings than Los Angeles.

                            Buffalonians will be extememly happy, and people from toronto will be estatic having NFL in Toronto with Adrian Peterson!
                            I don't know, but I think that the NFL is just using Toronto as a scare tactic to get what they want from local governments...and I'm talking about money! I just don't think you will ever see a team in Toronto and there are plenty of people who believe this too. Sorry.

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                            • Nighthawk
                              Getting old waiting for a championship in Buffalo!
                              • Jul 2002
                              • 15437
                              #15
                              Re: Toronto Could Land The Vikings Instead?

                              Originally posted by bills_7
                              70% of Bills fans are from toronto anyway the NFL would dumb not to bring the bills to Canada and Toronto there is so much more money in it for them in Toronto
                              I think your percentage is way too high, but there is a good portion of Bills fans who are from Toronto.

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