For the past couple of years, the Bills were able to "stay" in WNY but give away a preseason and a regular season game to a different city in a foreign country. Please read the attached article where Arthur Blank talks about London having perhaps more than one NFL franchise at some point in the future.
Let's say a WNY outsider buys the Bills and says he's going to be working with state and local officials to potentially build a new stadium. Bills nation will lap it up and come out in droves for a couple of years out of pure panic. The economic realities of building today's NFL stadium on a hamstringed budget, coupled with the difficulties of selling corporate suites and ticket licenses to an impoverished area may already have the end game setup for this franchise.
Two years of being held at gunpoint ticket sales leaves 4 years left before a permanent move basically happens without penalty. Once Bills' fans realize the reality that they're facing, ticket sales will bottom out and the new owner will go looking for new sources of revenue.
My question is this... is there basically anything from stopping a new owner from taking more and more games for each of those least 4 years and selling them overseas? Does the current lease prevent them from being able to do that?
Let's say a WNY outsider buys the Bills and says he's going to be working with state and local officials to potentially build a new stadium. Bills nation will lap it up and come out in droves for a couple of years out of pure panic. The economic realities of building today's NFL stadium on a hamstringed budget, coupled with the difficulties of selling corporate suites and ticket licenses to an impoverished area may already have the end game setup for this franchise.
Two years of being held at gunpoint ticket sales leaves 4 years left before a permanent move basically happens without penalty. Once Bills' fans realize the reality that they're facing, ticket sales will bottom out and the new owner will go looking for new sources of revenue.
My question is this... is there basically anything from stopping a new owner from taking more and more games for each of those least 4 years and selling them overseas? Does the current lease prevent them from being able to do that?
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