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04-16-2006, 12:33 PM
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The Bills are the lone original AFL team that has remained in the same location.
No for Bronocs remain in Denver and while New England Patriots moved to Foxboro it is not much different than Bills moving to Orchard Park.
This is true: Kansas City was originally in Dallas, SD in LA, Raiders are wandering fruit, NY Jets are in New Jersey and Colts moved to Indianapolis.
What's more, at his age Wilson is concerned what will happen to his team when he is dead and gone. The new CBA would cut new owners out of the revenue-sharing collective. Wilson has hinted he'll now try to keep the team in his family but inheritance taxes are another consideration for a franchise that has been valued at $600 million-plus. (Interesting, isn't it, that Wilson says his team might become a perennial money-loser, yet it still carries that price tag?)
Yes it does for it can be moved or rules changed to maintain value. However part of that value according Forbes is stadium and how much value does that stadium actually provide really? It can not be sold and of Bills move it probably will be torn down.
Since soon-to-be-retired Paul Tagliabue took over as commissioner, 19 new NFL stadiums have been built, 14 of them since 1999. Taxpayers in every community of any size have been through the pro sports hustle and shakedown.
Plus a number have been remodelled with tax-payer support under threat of being moved.
Los Angeles could use a franchise.
Los Angeles could not use franchise - league could use franchise in LA but that is different.
Toronto, too, although that's not going to happen any time soon.
Toronto will not be getting a franchise until dollar relationship changes and doesn't need one anyways.
The Bills are the lone original AFL team that has remained in the same location.
No for Bronocs remain in Denver and while New England Patriots moved to Foxboro it is not much different than Bills moving to Orchard Park.
This is true: Kansas City was originally in Dallas, SD in LA, Raiders are wandering fruit, NY Jets are in New Jersey and Colts moved to Indianapolis.
What's more, at his age Wilson is concerned what will happen to his team when he is dead and gone. The new CBA would cut new owners out of the revenue-sharing collective. Wilson has hinted he'll now try to keep the team in his family but inheritance taxes are another consideration for a franchise that has been valued at $600 million-plus. (Interesting, isn't it, that Wilson says his team might become a perennial money-loser, yet it still carries that price tag?)
Yes it does for it can be moved or rules changed to maintain value. However part of that value according Forbes is stadium and how much value does that stadium actually provide really? It can not be sold and of Bills move it probably will be torn down.
Since soon-to-be-retired Paul Tagliabue took over as commissioner, 19 new NFL stadiums have been built, 14 of them since 1999. Taxpayers in every community of any size have been through the pro sports hustle and shakedown.
Plus a number have been remodelled with tax-payer support under threat of being moved.
Los Angeles could use a franchise.
Los Angeles could not use franchise - league could use franchise in LA but that is different.
Toronto, too, although that's not going to happen any time soon.
Toronto will not be getting a franchise until dollar relationship changes and doesn't need one anyways.