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A stadium out side of erie county and buffalo makes no sense...
With the recent talk of the bills moving out of buffalo to LA . Articles have be written suggesting the bills build a new stadium out side of buffalo to bring in more fans. This my friends makes no sense at all. First let me say this ...It was a mistake to build the stadium in orchard park in the first place...
History has shown that this area has made many mistakes when it comes to building major projects....UB Amherst...etc....Now talk of a stadium in Genesee County for the bills fans in Rochester .. etc...ah no !!! I lived in rochester for five years and ran into more Fish,Packer and Browns fans than Bills fans...
Their is only one place to put a new stadium when it is built and that is downtown Buffalo. The recent activity downtown has shown me that Buffalo has turned the corner and the city is making a slow recovery. New Developement and the work on the erie canal project shows me that the city is starting to bounce back.
Sure it will cost the taxpayers some money .. and many won't want to spend it ...
We really have two choices ...Go all out to keep the bills and draw more events to the city say a regional final in NCAA basketball and maybe a final four ..By building a indoor stadium or let the course be run and possibly lose the team to an area that has never supported football.
When you think abou the cities that could lose their teams it boils down to Buffalo,New Orleans and Minnesota.... But that has changed with the vikings set to build a new sports complex. http://www.vikings.com/stadiumvision.html
San diego was also mentioned but they are discussing a new staduim project. http://www.chargers.com/futurestadium/
So where else can the NFL go.... ? It has to be Buffalo or New Orleans All the rest of the teams are on solid ground with new stadiums or solid fan bases.
It really simple when you think about...It has to be New Orleans... As bad as the WNY economy is .. It's a lot better than The big easy .. First of all the area lost half of it's population due to Hurricane Katrina.. Most of the residents are probably not returning...
Over 50 percent of the white collars jobs have still not returned....Many area schools and hospitals are still not opened. Area business are closed because the people have not returned. I know the NFL wants to do the right thing by trying to bring the saints back . It's just not going to be easy... IT'S A SHAME THAT THE NFL wants reward a city that just doen't support football with a team . While areas that love their teams may get it yanked away..
This is all premature but if we want to keep the bills in buffalo we need to get active. Write The Your State politicans and county legislators and ask them to get busy with a study to keep the bills in bufflao with a new staduim plan by 2011.
It's just five years away but a new lease should be worked out before then . One that is a lot tougher to get out of ..Then maybe a new plan to have a new staduim by 2015.. The ralph is 33 years old...It's time to get busy with plans with a new one...If not so be it .. I would be ok .. just going to Bass pro every sunday in the fall.. Or maybe i could hit the New erie canal musuem...Or maybe the casino to watch the other teams play...HMM.. just think how bad that would be ...
BMAX...
History has shown that this area has made many mistakes when it comes to building major projects....UB Amherst...etc....Now talk of a stadium in Genesee County for the bills fans in Rochester .. etc...ah no !!! I lived in rochester for five years and ran into more Fish,Packer and Browns fans than Bills fans...
Their is only one place to put a new stadium when it is built and that is downtown Buffalo. The recent activity downtown has shown me that Buffalo has turned the corner and the city is making a slow recovery. New Developement and the work on the erie canal project shows me that the city is starting to bounce back.
Sure it will cost the taxpayers some money .. and many won't want to spend it ...
We really have two choices ...Go all out to keep the bills and draw more events to the city say a regional final in NCAA basketball and maybe a final four ..By building a indoor stadium or let the course be run and possibly lose the team to an area that has never supported football.
When you think abou the cities that could lose their teams it boils down to Buffalo,New Orleans and Minnesota.... But that has changed with the vikings set to build a new sports complex. http://www.vikings.com/stadiumvision.html
San diego was also mentioned but they are discussing a new staduim project. http://www.chargers.com/futurestadium/
So where else can the NFL go.... ? It has to be Buffalo or New Orleans All the rest of the teams are on solid ground with new stadiums or solid fan bases.
It really simple when you think about...It has to be New Orleans... As bad as the WNY economy is .. It's a lot better than The big easy .. First of all the area lost half of it's population due to Hurricane Katrina.. Most of the residents are probably not returning...
Over 50 percent of the white collars jobs have still not returned....Many area schools and hospitals are still not opened. Area business are closed because the people have not returned. I know the NFL wants to do the right thing by trying to bring the saints back . It's just not going to be easy... IT'S A SHAME THAT THE NFL wants reward a city that just doen't support football with a team . While areas that love their teams may get it yanked away..
This is all premature but if we want to keep the bills in buffalo we need to get active. Write The Your State politicans and county legislators and ask them to get busy with a study to keep the bills in bufflao with a new staduim plan by 2011.
It's just five years away but a new lease should be worked out before then . One that is a lot tougher to get out of ..Then maybe a new plan to have a new staduim by 2015.. The ralph is 33 years old...It's time to get busy with plans with a new one...If not so be it .. I would be ok .. just going to Bass pro every sunday in the fall.. Or maybe i could hit the New erie canal musuem...Or maybe the casino to watch the other teams play...HMM.. just think how bad that would be ...
BMAX...
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