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If Ralph Wilson was going to sell his beloved Buffalo Bills to anyone, would it not be to Jim Kelly, the man who led the team to four straight Super Bowl appearances in the 1990s?"I hope so," Kelly said with a smile yesterday. "But I don't think my American Express card can hold that much. So I might have to get a couple of them."
The former quarterback, a hale mountain of a man more than a decade into retirement, is leading a charge to keep the Bills in Buffalo. He has assumed the role of front man for a nebulous consortium jockeying to grab the baton whenever Wilson, the franchise's 90-year-old owner, decides to pass it along.
Kelly would not identify any of the investors. He balked at requests for details yesterday while making an appearance at Rogers Centre to promote a series of Ontario high-school football bowl games, but said there has been plenty of interest in his cause.
"I don't have enough fingers and toes to count the number of people who have contacted me, that they want to be a part of the team that stays here in Buffalo," Kelly said. "To be honest with you, there are some people who said they wanted to own the team and take it somewhere else. I will not engage in any conversation with anybody who wants to take the team and move it -- whether it's north of the border or some other city in the United States."
The former quarterback, a hale mountain of a man more than a decade into retirement, is leading a charge to keep the Bills in Buffalo. He has assumed the role of front man for a nebulous consortium jockeying to grab the baton whenever Wilson, the franchise's 90-year-old owner, decides to pass it along.
Kelly would not identify any of the investors. He balked at requests for details yesterday while making an appearance at Rogers Centre to promote a series of Ontario high-school football bowl games, but said there has been plenty of interest in his cause.
"I don't have enough fingers and toes to count the number of people who have contacted me, that they want to be a part of the team that stays here in Buffalo," Kelly said. "To be honest with you, there are some people who said they wanted to own the team and take it somewhere else. I will not engage in any conversation with anybody who wants to take the team and move it -- whether it's north of the border or some other city in the United States."
" ~ yordad
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