MadBuffaloDisease

My condolences.

"You got the peaches I got the cream..."

I suspect that if nothing is resolved at the qualifiers committee meeting on the 23rd, Ralph will spend where he did this past season, i.e. about $10M under the cap. So yes he'll have to spend a good chunk of change, but how much depends on the qualifiers committee.

Screw that! I want to see SJ nude from start to finish!

I'd go with Furrey for a reasonable contract, say what Peerless and Reed got, hoping to catch lightning in a bottle. Anything much higher than that and no way.

No, his contract as it stands is 4-years and $2.7M. The signing bonus was already factored-in. So he's making about $700K a season. Escalators may bring it up, but not even close to that much.

It's (bluenews') one opinion, and one that's in the vast minority.

True. Hopefully the team IS passed to his wife, who then passes-it-on to the daughers when she dies, which hopefully isn't for a long time. But until I hear Ralph SAY that the daughters want the team, I'll have to go by what I've actually heard him say. Hopefully they DO want the team. But again, death taxes will be killer (unless he dies in 2010 and the death tax continues to be eliminated for that year). Ralph can't demand that the Bills stay in Buffalo. I wish he could. And I hope new ownership will never want to move the team. I really hope so.

I read that as well article as well, but it didn't provide any definitive answer that they WOULD want to retain ownership. Hopefully, but even still, the death taxes (unless Ralph planned some way around these) would be enough to warrant selling the team. And no the money lost from non-sellouts wouldn't be the reason they'd move. It would just give an excuse to move. Basically a "if you don't support the team, I'll some place that will."

I'm just going by what Ralph publicly stated, i.e. that his daughters aren't interested in owning the team. If you know anything different, please do tell. And make sure to name names. As for SA, why does anyone think they'd have more trouble selling luxury boxes than in Buffalo? I might agree about the stadium, but do they have significantly LESS money than Houston, who built an expensive stadium for the Texans?

Yes...it would!

I'm not ashamed to admit I love 'em.

Where did I say that my mind is made-up? I said that IF the next owner of the Bills (seeing as how Ralph's family doesn't want the team) finds a suitable place to move, like SA, he'll probably do it, especially if fans keep staying away.

That's because they were the New Orleans Saints' games!

With blackouts like this year, the team IS dead. And the issue isn't what happens while Ralph is alive so much; it's what happens after he's gone, the team is sold for $800M, and the new owner can't justify keeping the team in an area that can't support even league-average ticket, parking, and concessions prices, while a place like San Antonio can.

He should have married the prettiest one with the nicest body. You can always make the boobs bigger later.

Hmmmm. TD is gone and Modrak likely has a lot of say on the draft, and the Bills have arguably their best draft in the past 6 years.

You got it. Fix the O-line and get him a better TE. Royal is a decent #2 TE.

"I've heard of him!"

Not overhyped or oversold, over-privatized. Private firms have bought the "rights" to certain genes and are researching them alone when teams of researchers could get cures faster/better.

Point taken.

If you have a guy in-mind that you like, you take him when you can.

Marketing? Who the freak DOESN'T know the Bills are where they are and how to get tix? They had no problem selling-out games BEFORE that. And if the argument is that the Sabres took away their money, then it shows that maybe WNY can't support 2 pro teams. And the bad weather excuse is just outright lame.

In hindsight, the Ravens probably should have drafted McNeill, considering Jonathan Ogden is considering retirement. See how that works? As for Whiter, he was gone no later than the 12th pick, to the Rams. They had lost Archuleta and needed a replacement. And when the 12th pick came along and Whitner was gone, what did they do? They traded down with Denver, who took Cutler.