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Abandoned as a baby on a Seoul street corner, Kim Pegula has become one of the most powerful women in sports -- and she's truly made Buffalo her own.
BUFFALO, N.Y. --"This is how we roll," Kim Pegula says, laughing loudly as she sashays her large, dark SUV through pregame traffic, a trail of flashing lights serving as her beacon. In three hours, the Buffalo Bills, the team Pegula and her husband, Terry, purchased a little more than two years ago, will host the rival New England Patriots at newly rechristened New Era Field, and the ebullient, engaged and utterly improbable co-owner is in the middle of a convoy bound for Orchard Park, the suburb where the team has played its home games since 1973. The franchise's heyday came in the early '90s, when the Bills captured four consecutive AFC championships, famously falling short in the Super Bowl on each occasion. It was toward the end of that run that Kim and Terry Pegula initially were afforded a first-hand view of fan-infested football Sundays in this Rust Belt community -- a memory that makes her smile broadly on this rainy late-October morning....
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