POLLOCK: Bills fans should start worrying!

[Wally The Barber]

Just a link guys,

http://www.oleantimesherald.com/articles/2008/02/09/sports/doc47ae7645ec7e9550778285.txt

[Mitchy moo]

We need to generate more revenue per game, it's not going to happen in Orchard park. There has to be a new stadium downtown with all the trimmings, then the money will show up from all around the region.

RW has basically said that in makes no economic sense from where they are now and I feel it would make alot more sense downtown. Anyone who wants to get a drink downtown has to pay a higher price than the suburbs, plan on event tickets to be the same.

[Night Train]

Pollock win the Capt. Obvious award.

[BleedinGreenNC]

I for one would be pissed if the Bills moved, it would change things as we know it forever. Do you think they would change the divisions up? I hope this doesnt happen, there is way too much history in Buffalo with the Bills.

[zone]

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Wally, are you Mr. Market?

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[Wys Guy]

Just a link guys,

http://www.oleantimesherald.com/articles/2008/02/09/sports/doc47ae7645ec7e9550778285.txt

Wasn't it Pollock who insisted that there was no reason to worry just a few short months ago? Maybe not, but I seem to recall that he wrote a piece saying the exact opposite not too long ago.

Regardless, doesn't anyone get tired of writers that only comment after the fact? I mean is any of what he wrote news? Hardly. Where has the analysis been over the months/years?

WHAT WAS most bothersome during Wednesday's press conference was Rogers arrogance about how easy it will be to sell Bills' tickets in Toronto even for bloated prices ...

Yeah Chuck, just like it is in many other NFL cities like Washington, Boston, Dallas, and NY. Toronto isn't Louisville, KY. It's the single largest population center and financial capital of Canada, Canada's equivalent to NYC with Ottawa, both the nation's and province's capitol just hours down the road.

The Bills sold out every home game last season, and in both 2003 and '05, as well. Of the 40 home games Buffalo played in those five years, 35 were sellouts.

And never mind that for some of those games, a significant number of them, unlike other NFL cities, fans of opposing teams bought those tickets in the tens of thousands. It gives new meaning to the phrase "home games" for Bills and their fans and to "Away Games" for opposing fans.

Either way, like it or not it is just a matter of time now. Bob Dicesare just wrote a great piece on why this has happened and it's not Ralph's fault despite notions that so many of you want desperately to blame him.

Oh sure, it is Ralph's fault that the team has sucked moose balls since he wisely fired Bill Polian. (sarcasm) But Ralph is a business man and just as Al Davis, Jerry Jones, and Dan Snyder screw up their teams, so too Ralph has screwed his up and in spades! But that is the team and its play/performance, not its viability in Buffalo.

For that, all of you who have been voting for liberal politicians, both nationally, regionally, and local, likely applying the same philosophy throughout, you can thank yourselves. That and that alone is what has turned NYS into a worse than depressed fiscal vortex sucking in every available dollar and then some into varying governments that are about as efficient as using a butterfly net to bail water from a sinking boat.

Not to get into politics, but this is one phenominal example of how most people don't have a clue what they're voting for over the years because they just look at "how a candidate looks" or because he says "that he/she can bring people together" or other meaningless nonsense.

If the region had simply remained stable over the past 15 or 20 years this likely wouldn't even be a remote discussion much less an inevitability now.

My advice to anyone in Upstate NY that's under 40, leave now. There's a lot more out there that's nice elsewhere.