Tu-Toned

We should just rename the team The Buffalo Williams, and we can call them the Buffalo Bills for short.

Wow, thanks for the support! I have certainly heard of and applaud organizations like the BFA, and any organization that works to keep the Bills in Buffalo. If something like this, or even better, another plan possibly designed to keep them in Buffalo longer than just a new stadium would be proposed, I would be thrilled with that as well. Supportive too! Like you implied, I was genuinely curious because I knew that fans could not buy the team but was not sure if this might be possible. From the responses I see, I guess the general consensus is possible, yes, easy, no! I really was not thinking about all of the potential involving the surrounding infrastructure, culture, dining, etc..that comes with the destination type stadiums of today. When you consider that, and the potential revenue associated with an operation of a facility like a modern NFL stadium, I think that it would be foolish to not consider it. Btw: I do occasionally pull on my pud & bellyach!

It does keep them there longer though, right?

I am working on that. Like I stated, this may only guarantee the stay for the life of the new stadium, do we have any guarantees currently that the stay beyond the current stadium/county lease agreement? Ok, that is your assignment, I expect a full report on my desk in the morning! Well, we still should be able to tailgate, we own the place! I realize that I am talking out of my bottom hole a bit, but my intentions are pure!

Those are givens, when you buy a new home, you have to assume and account for all of the ancillary costs, so we would be no different. I would bet that we may in deed see a return on our investment, and if it keeps the Bills here for another 20 years or so, that would be enough of a return for me. One little caveat, I currently reside in Pittsburgh, so you would need to compensate me for my relocation expenses, but that is not a problem, I need a change of scenery, and originally born and raised in B'lo. Knowing that, due to financial and other reasons, we have fans all over the world, we would not discriminate on investors, if you have the fee, you are in.

Exactly! All joking aside, I would do anything for my Bills, and I am totally serious.

I am a Purchasing Manager by trade, and have a good understanding of common business practices. I maybe a bit weak in the entertainment arena, but business is business, and what I can't handle, I make sure that we appoint the right person that can. I do know how to save money and push people to do better, and you can bet your bottom dollar that I would be out there kicking the siht out of tires. I am your man, I will post my forwarding address for your checks shortly. It's on like a "Mo Fo"!

Well crap most of us already have way more invested than that, emotionally and financially, and not much return to date. But that is why we are Bills Fans! We have a central management committee, elected or appointed. Whoever we put our trust in, we do exactly that and let them make those decisions. We run this thing like a Corporation.

It would truly be "Our House".

I could easily and happily muster $4k, I'm in.

Not talking team ownership, but stadium ownership.

I have read a lot of posts about ideas to keep the team in Buffalo, and maybe this has been discussed before, but could the fans do this? If the NFL has rules against minority or fractured ownership and prevents a situation like Green Bay where the Fans own the team, why can't the Bills Fans finance the new stadium. Taxpayers that are against financing a new stadium can opt out, those opting in will share in the revenues and have a real ownership stake. It would take the financial burden off of the state and county, as well as make it much easier for a new owner to keep them here. We say when and how ticket prices are set, we control the psl revenue, we decide where it will be located and how it will be run. If we can't own the team, maybe this is the next best scenario, and we keep the slime ball politicians out of it, maybe we can use them to secure the land. Thoughts?

All proceeds go to the "keep our Bills Buffalo" foundation!

Um.....ok!

I woke up today and saw the picture of him with his daughter in a hospital bed, I started bawling like a baby! My prayers are with you and yours JK. I currently have a sister fighting this dreaded disease.

Yea, but we are talking Jim Kelly here, while he would have still been playing, would not have happened.

I was playing in a charity golf event in Beaver Pa, and Jim was in a foursome a couple of groups behind me and I remember it well because it was the day that Rothlisberger was involved in the motorcycle crash. I watched as Jim was the last in his group to tee off, and as soon as he did all I heard from his group were ooh's and ah's, and wow's! No doubt they were using his drive on that hole in this scramble event. I thought to myself, yea, but he probably can't putt, a couple holes later we started to get backed up a bit and had to wait to tee off and had a Birdseye view of Jim's group trying to negotiate a forty foot putt. I watched as his three partners attempted their ill fated putts, and then again as Jim calmly walked up and dropped his in the middle of the cup to the excitement of his teammates, and resulting round of high fives, thinking to myself, this guy is unbelievable. On the second to last hole, we were really backed up now and were waiting to tee off when a guy in the foursome behind us walks up to the tee area talking on his cell. He hangs up and proceeds To tell everyone that Big Ben was just hit by a car in Pittsburgh on his motorcycle. The only reason that I mention this, is because I was totally shocked and quite honestly disgusted by some of the comments that I was hearing. Now, I don't want to broad brush all Steeler fans, but they were showing absolutely no concern for Big Ben's actual health, collectively from any of the people that I was around that day. I heard comments like, "that dumbass, now he's not going to be in that Campbell's soup commercial", and "now we are never gonna get back to the Super Bowl". I just can't imagine Buffalo fans acting like that, especially when it was just very early in Ben's career, and had already had significant success.

Getrdone, then we bring back Fitz, and wa la, we have our first training camp brouhaha!

I hope that he falls flat on his plantar faceitis!

Have a guy dressed like Buffalo Bill Cody lead him on to the field.

She was probably down big at the tables, so Ray put an end to that.

Nail meet head! I also do not approve of that lifestyle, but also could care less. In other news, there will be a fairly huge contingent of heterosexual men entering the draft this May.

My brother and I went to Fredonia training camp, I believe in '88, and they had two practices a day back then, so it was tougher on the players. I spot Andre walking away from the area where they assemble after signing some autographs, and I yell out to him and he stops and walks a good ways back to us, signs and chats with us for a good ten minutes. We were young adults at the time. Class act! ps: I posted this before reading any of the other posts, then went back and read a handful, and I saw at least a couple regarding autographs, and Andre's accommodating nature, so I guess I'm not the only one. Really thrilled that he got in!

I have always liked the Seahawks, they just seem to have been pretty anonymous for most of their existence. I like their fans, like both the old and the new stadiums, and really like their unis. I don't want them to win the big one before the Bills do though! Oh, and I really have liked certain players of theirs over the years, like Largent, Zorn, Alexander, etc...

I love this site and everyone on it. O.K. I have not taken my meds yet this morning, but I am pretty sure that it will still be the case.