Bills Gettin F'in Paid for games in Craptown

[B-DON]

Bills to be paid $78 million to play in Toronto
By JOHN WAWROW, AP Sports Writer
22 minutes ago


BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)—The Buffalo Bills will receive $78 million—more than double their calculated 2006 operating income—to play eight games in Toronto over the next five years.

The payment to the Bills was disclosed for the first time in Rogers Communications’ 2008 first-quarter report released Tuesday. The Toronto-based company is part of a consortium that negotiated a deal with the Bills to have them play five regular-season and three preseason games, starting this year, at the downtown Rogers Centre.

In becoming the NFL’s first team to play annual games outside the United States, the Bills are scheduled to host Pittsburgh in a preseason match at Toronto on Aug. 14, followed by a regular-season game against Miami on Dec. 7.

Rogers spokeswoman Jan Innes would not comment beyond the one-paragraph statement included in the company report, except to say the $78 million figure was in Canadian currency. The Canadian dollar hovered around par to its U.S. counterpart during the first quarter this year.

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[B-DON]

Re: Bills Gettin F'in Paidm for games in Craptown

I hope this improves our chances of not moving. That is much needed money for this franchise.

[B-DON]

Re: Bills Gettin F'in Paidm for games in Craptown

Will one of the mods please remove the "m" after paid? Thank you

[patmoran2006]

Re: Bills Gettin F'in Paidm for games in Craptown

Holy **** that's even more than I thought it would be.


That old bastard is one rich son of a *****.

[Bill Brasky]

Re: Bills Gettin F'in Paid for games in Craptown

i hope he's happy....

[Scumbag College]

Re: Bills Gettin F'in Paid for games in Craptown

I don't want to hear Ralphy crying poor anytime soon.

[OpIv37]

Re: Bills Gettin F'in Paidm for games in Craptown

I hope this improves our chances of not moving. That is much needed money for this franchise.

if anything it does the opposite- if the Bills can get paid almost $8 million a game to play there and the Rogers Center can still turn a profit, it's bad news for Buffalo.

[hammerbillsfan]

Re: Bills Gettin F'in Paid for games in Craptown

When the **** was Toronto was referred to as Craptown?

[OpIv37]

Re: Bills Gettin F'in Paid for games in Craptown

When the **** was Toronto was referred to as Craptown?

since you hosers tried to steal our ****ing football team.

[hammerbillsfan]

Re: Bills Gettin F'in Paid for games in Craptown

since you hosers tried to steal our ****ing football team.

hey Ralph and the NFL agreed to loan out a few games, was Toronto going to say no?

[Mr B]

Re: Bills Gettin F'in Paid for games in Craptown

Bills to be paid $78 million to play in Toronto
By JOHN WAWROW, AP Sports Writer


BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)—The Buffalo Bills will receive $78 million—more than double their calculated 2006 operating income—to play eight games in Toronto over the next five years.

This article sounds like propoganda. The Bills won't have to pay taxes with the 78 million? Just take the money and run? I would have liked for him to show much more profit per game it breaks down to.

[The last buffalo fan]

Re: Bills Gettin F'in Paid for games in Craptown

puta madre!

[OpIv37]

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hey Ralph and the NFL agreed to loan out a few games, was Toronto going to say no?

Oh, yeah, I'm sure Rogers and the city had NOTHING to do with pushing them to it- the NFL just offered it to them out of the goodness of their hearts.

Toronto wants our team and until we're reassured that they're not going to get it, you can pretty much count on some animosity.

[YardRat]

Re: Bills Gettin F'in Paid for games in Craptown

Beats the living **** out of the paltry sum they would have received by selling the naming rights to the stadium or raising ticket prices.



Old Ralphy just created 78 million ****ing dollars in revenue without going one thin dime into any kind of debt. No new stadium to pay for. No new luxury suites to pay for. No messing with the league's salary cap or revenue sharing and screwing everybody else. What a 'dumb-ass' businessman he is, huh?

[OpIv37]

Re: Bills Gettin F'in Paid for games in Craptown

Beats the living **** out of the paltry sum they would have received by selling the naming rights to the stadium or raising ticket prices.



Old Ralphy just created 78 million ****ing dollars in revenue without going one thin dime into any kind of debt. No new stadium to pay for. No new luxury suites to pay for. No messing with the league's salary cap or revenue sharing and screwing everybody else. What a 'dumb-ass' businessman he is, huh?

He also created an appetite for NFL football in the city that's most likely to be able to steal our team. So, while Ralphy makes a few extra bucks and the team remains fiscally solvent, it's also the death blow to NFL football in Western NY.