The NFL is going to do everything in its power to ensure the Toronto group wins bid

[SpikedLemonade]

Fellow Canadians, do yourself a favour and give attending the Bills a pass this year.

Let the Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo residents support this team alone.

If you feel you need to view a crap stain this year, visit Hamilton and Windsor even though they are not as stinky.

[better days]

Fellow Canadians, do yourself a favour and give attending the Bills a pass this year.

Let the Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo residents support this team alone.

If you feel you need to view a crap stain this year, visit Hamilton and Windsor even though they are not as stinky.

Well, if the Canadian fans stay away, it will be a much less drunken crowd. But the Stadium will still be full.

[SpikedLemonade]

Well, if the Canadian fans stay away, it will be a much less drunken crowd. But the Stadium will still be full.

That is a lie about the Canadians being more drunk.

Currently 20% of attendees to Bills games are Canadians.

There is no question that there would be even more blackouts if they stayed home.

By the way, why does no one talk about the blackout history of the Bills here?

2nd cheapest tickets in the league and the Bills can't sell out.

[better days]

That is a lie about the Canadians being more drunk.

Currently 20% of attendees to Bills games are Canadians.

There is no question that there would be even more blackouts if they stayed home.

By the way, why does no one talk about the blackout history of the Bills here?

2nd cheapest tickets in the league and the Bills can't sell out.

So if every Canadian stayed away as you want them to, the crowd would be 20% more sober.

The Bills sold almost 50,000 season tickets this year. Games will sell out one way or the other.

[SpikedLemonade]

The Bills sold almost 50,000 season tickets this year. Games will sell out one way or the other.

Don't blame your calculator you old fool for not figuring out that 20% of those 50,000 are probably also Canadians.

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Teams and year of last blackout/non-sell out

• Giants (1975)
• Jets (1977)
• 49ers (1981)
• Packers (1983)
• Bears (1984)
• Cowboys (1990)
• Patriots (1993)
• Browns (1995)
• Titans (1997)
• Vikings (1997)
• Dolphins (1998)
• Eagles (1999)
• Colts (2002)
• Panthers (2002)
• Seahawks (2002)
• Saints (2004)
• Cardinals (2005)
• Falcons (2007)
• Chiefs (2009)
• Jaguars (2009)
• Rams (2009)
• Lions (2010)
• Bengals (2012)
• Buccaneers (2012)
• Raiders (2012)
• Chargers (2013)
• Bills (2013)

As of the 2013 season, the Washington Redskins (last game not sold out was in 1965), Denver Broncos (joined the NFL in 1970 per AFL-NFL merger agreement; last game not sold out was in 1969), Pittsburgh Steelers (last game not sold out was in 1972), Houston Texans (founded in 2002) and Baltimore Ravens (founded in 1996) have never had a blacked out game under the post-1973 rules. However, there have been blackouts in the post-1973 era in the Houston market (1995) and Baltimore market with previous franchises.

[Novacane]

That is a lie about the Canadians being more drunk.

Currently 20% of attendees to Bills games are Canadians.

There is no question that there would be even more blackouts if they stayed home.

By the way, why does no one talk about the blackout history of the Bills here?

2nd cheapest tickets in the league and the Bills can't sell out.

Well thankfully the majority of them don't have a hard on for WNY like you and a couple of the others posting here.

[YardRat]

Hey Spiked, do you attend games?

[better days]

Don't blame your calculator you old fool for not figuring out that 20% of those 50,000 are probably also Canadians.

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Teams and year of last blackout/non-sell out

• Giants (1975)
• Jets (1977)
• 49ers (1981)
• Packers (1983)
• Bears (1984)
• Cowboys (1990)
• Patriots (1993)
• Browns (1995)
• Titans (1997)
• Vikings (1997)
• Dolphins (1998)
• Eagles (1999)
• Colts (2002)
• Panthers (2002)
• Seahawks (2002)
• Saints (2004)
• Cardinals (2005)
• Falcons (2007)
• Chiefs (2009)
• Jaguars (2009)
• Rams (2009)
• Lions (2010)
• Bengals (2012)
• Buccaneers (2012)
• Raiders (2012)
• Chargers (2013)
• Bills (2013)

As of the 2013 season, the Washington Redskins (last game not sold out was in 1965), Denver Broncos (joined the NFL in 1970 per AFL-NFL merger agreement; last game not sold out was in 1969), Pittsburgh Steelers (last game not sold out was in 1972), Houston Texans (founded in 2002) and Baltimore Ravens (founded in 1996) have never had a blacked out game under the post-1973 rules. However, there have been blackouts in the post-1973 era in the Houston market (1995) and Baltimore market with previous franchises.

Well, TROLL even if Canadians bought those tickets, they are ALREADY SOLD. And will count towards a sell out even if not used.

[chris66]

I believe you're Canadian and that Canada sucks.

unless canada somehow moved to north east rhode island, pretty sure I'm American

[better days]

unless canada somehow moved to north east rhode island, pretty sure I'm American

Pats* fan, WORSE than Canadians.

[SpikedLemonade]

Suck a crotchety old fool.

[feldspar]

Well, the Bills might have been one of only two teams to have a blackout/non-sellout last year, but LOTS and LOTS of other teams had a much lower average attendance.

...and we're talking about a cold-weather, small-market team that hasn't made the playoffs in 14 years. Oh, and lots of other stadiums have less seating capacity as well; in fact, I think only something like 10 stadiums stadiums have a larger seating capacity. Jacksonville puts tarps over their seats so they can "sell-out," for Christ's sake...they don't have to sell those tickets. Other teams have done something similar, or at least reduce the number of tickets that need to be sold to broadcast the game locally. Oakland has one of the smallest capacities in the league, and they eliminated almost 10,000 seats last year to avoid blackouts. Their friggin' seating capacity was 53,250. Wowee.

I could go on.

I know you hate Buffalo Spiked, so go fly a kite.

[SpikedLemonade]

Hey Spiked, do you attend games?

Less and less but still one a year.

I was a season ticket holder for 5 years from 2000 - 2004.

[Goobylal]

Fellow Canadians, do yourself a favour and give attending the Bills a pass this year.

Let the Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo residents support this team alone.

If you feel you need to view a crap stain this year, visit Hamilton and Windsor even though they are not as stinky.

Once Pegs buys the team, the Bills won't need Canadian fans. But they (you) will still come.

[better days]

Once Pegs buys the team, the Bills won't need Canadian fans. But they (you) will still come.

I just read in the Toronto Sun that Bon Jovi is still part of that group, but that they are pessimistic about their chances of buying the Bills.

[Goobylal]

I just read in the Toronto Sun that Bon Jovi is still part of that group, but that they are pessimistic about their chances of buying the Bills.

They're screwed no matter what. If BJ stays, they don't have the money to compete with Pegs. If they dump him, they have more money, but their future intentions are obvious.

[WagonCircler]

I just read in the Toronto Sun that Bon Jovi is still part of that group, but that they are pessimistic about their chances of buying the Bills.

Here it is. They're toast.

Jon Bon Jovi remains part of the Toronto group hoping to buy the Buffalo Bills. He never left; he never got the boot.

Multiple sources over the weekend said the rock star has not been “chucked from” the group, as reported Friday night by the New York Post, nor has Bon Jovi left the group.

That said, Bon Jovi and his two Toronto support investors – Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment chairman Larry Tanenbaum and the Rogers family, whose interests are represented by Edward Rogers, deputy chairman of Rogers Communications -- remain highly pessimistic they’ll be able to buy the team, something sources have been telling QMI Agency since the beginning of August.

The Toronto group’s bid ceiling with Bon Jovi as controlling partner is up to about $1.2 billion, sources have said. That’s unlikely to be enough to buy the team.

Finalists must submit binding, definitive bids by Sept. 9, QMI reported late last month.

The trust of the late Ralph Wilson, who founded the Bills in 1960, is overseeing this private sale with the help of investment bank Morgan Stanley and law firm Proskauer Rose.

The Toronto group’s first, non-binding bid -- which QMI now knows to have been an exact range of $800 million to $900 million -- was deemed to be uncompetitively low by Morgan Stanley in late July.

In early August the group resubmitted a non-binding bid range of precisely $1.0 billion to $1.1 billion. QMI reported this on Aug. 21, a day after Forbes claimed the Toronto group had bid only $820 million and that all indicative bids were under $900 million.

The Wilson trust and its advisers have yet to receive adequate assurances from the Toronto group that it would keep the Bills in Western New York long-term and that remains an enormous issue with Bon Jovi’s bid. The principals know it, too, especially after an unpromising face-to-face meeting with the sellers in Manhattan in mid-August.

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/09/02...4b0cb39b275717

Kryk has been the most accurate reporter from day one, and he didn't fall for the "Bon Jovi has been turfed" ruse.

[Woodman]

Here's hoping we've heard the last of the group from Canada and JBJ.

[TrEd FTW]

or worst case secenario. Pegula buys the team keeps it for the 6 years. realizes its impossible to work with the state and county on a new stadium and sells it to a group that will move it to Toronto or LA and make a quick half a billion

No chance. If you think this is a possibility, you know absolutely nothing about Terry Pegula.

[better days]

No chance. If you think this is a possibility, you know absolutely nothing about Terry Pegula.

He doesn't know anything about Buffalo or Pegula.

He is a Pats* fan in R.I.