Sizing up the Bills’options

[YardRat]

http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/350831.html

Buffalo Bills fans should hope the team’s venture into Toronto is a colossal success. That looks like the best hope for the long-term survival of the Bills in Buffalo.

The odds are not great that the Bills will remain in Buffalo when the estate of owner Ralph C. Wilson Jr., 89, puts the franchise up for sale, given the current economic landscape in the NFL.

It’s easy to see how someone from one of the biggest markets in North America –Los Angeles or Toronto –could pay upwards of $1 billion for the Bills in an open auction and make the investment work.

It’s hard to see how someone who wants to keep the team in Buffalo could make a winning bid for the franchise –unless the Toronto experiment helps the Bills shake off their small-market burden.

A financially strong franchise would give some of the Bills’ most powerful supporters –in particular NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and U. S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer –more leverage in trying to influence an outcome in Buffalo’s favor.

“If the franchise is viable, I will fight to keep it in Buffalo,” Goodell told The News.

The key to that statement, of course, is the qualifier “if the franchise is viable.”

[Night Train]

Re: Sizing up the Bills’options

It is what it is. No sense repeating all the issues ad nauseam.

Take it one year at a time and enjoy the team.

[Jan Reimers]

Re: Sizing up the Bills’options

As long as Ralph is Hell-bent on selling to the highest bidder, most of the listed options don't really exist.

[justasportsfan]

Re: Sizing up the Bills’options

“If the franchise is viable, I will fight to keep it in Buffalo,” Goodell told The News.

The key to that statement, of course, is the qualifier “if the franchise is viable.”

and Goodell has proven that time and again. The Pats are a very viable team, he therefore let's them off the hook time and again.

Hey Goodell, if the team is viable you wouldn't have to do squat.DUH!!