Kathy Hochul: San Diego was interested in taking the Bills away from Buffalo

[machine gun kelly]

2 minutes ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:

San Diego should try to get the Chargers back

I agree, but again SD taxpayers are never going to build them a stadium, and the Spanos family can’t afford a billion dollar investment.

[Saxum]

45 minutes ago, Ya Digg? said:

So the team that already showed they couldn’t afford/help pay for a team was somehow going to land another team?? 

 

Sometimes after cities lose football teams their attitude changes.

[stevewin]

What about Austin? 😛

[JMM]

Call me naive, but I don't believe that Pegs would EVER move the Bills. I just don't. 

[BillsfaninSB]

10 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

So SD wasn't willing to build a stadium to keep the team there when they had a chance but they'd happily pay for one now? Makes no sense.

The City/County was fully supportive of a new stadium near Qualcomm.   Spanos sabotaged it by insisting on a downtown site that was really tight.  traffic and parking would have been difficult.  It wasn’t very popular.

 

Plus, in CA, those types of tax measures need a super majority (2/3) to approve.   Very hard to do.  That referendum to raise hotel taxes had two strikes against it.  Bottom line: Spanos wanted to leave.  SD wanted to keep the the Chargers.

 

San Diego was probably not a veiled threat. 

[Augie]

12 minutes ago, stevewin said:

What about Austin? 😛

 

I’ve never even BEEN to Austin, so don’t listen to me, but I always thought it would be like Atlanta which is a college football town with an NFL afterthought. That could be completely incorrect. You see UGA, Georgia Tech, Bama, Auburn, FSU, etc gear everywhere in Atlanta. And there is an occasional sighting of a Falcons hat or shirt. 

[BobbyC81]

1 hour ago, purple haze said:

True. But she only mentioned San Diego.  There seems to have been other places as well.  Pegula’s would definitely be fronting all the money for a California stadium.  Public money for new stadiums isn’t a thing out here.

Yep, the Golden State Warriors didn’t even bother.  They just bought the land in San Francisco and built a new arena themselves.  Of course, it doesn’t hurt that a team the current owners bought in 2010 for $450M is now valued at $4.7B.  Talk about some equity to work with.

[Buffalo Ballin]

This doesn't even matter now. The Bills are staying in Buffalo for a long time.

[BobbyC81]

43 minutes ago, RobbRiddicksTDLeap said:

Thank God she got it done. She’s so brave. As her constituents, we should all be grateful. 

We lucked out in her being the Lieutenant Governor and Cuomo being forced to resign.  It will likely be her legacy.  Her odds of winning the election are probably now slim.

[Warcodered]

17 minutes ago, Buffalo Ballin said:

This doesn't even matter now. The Bills are staying in Buffalo for a long time.

We're in the political pissing match phase of this situation.

[machine gun kelly]

45 minutes ago, JMM said:

Call me naive, but I don't believe that Pegs would EVER move the Bills. I just don't. 

Well they won’t now, given a state of the art stadium that NYS and the casinos paid for the construction. With the increased expense in construction materials since that word we can’t say (sounds like BOVID) has made things so expensive.

 

Just a handful of years ago, Lincoln Financial in Indy was half the cost, and a retractable dome.  I’m fine with having that covered awning though as it should really cut down on the wind as well or completely above ground vs. mostly underground.  You Buffalo guys will get shielded from most wind, snow, and rain.

[Don Otreply]

1 hour ago, Warcodered said:

Saw some tweets talking about the deal that noted something that I think people tend to ignore for some reason. As rich as the Pegula's are it's not realistic to think they just have a 1 Billion+ available to just spend on this, their net worth is including assets.

Oh those poor Pegulas, imagine a very tiny violin 🎻 playing my heart bleeds for them…, 😂

[HOUSE]

Wack-Crack- Ouch

 

Edited April 13, 2022 by HOUSE

[H2o]

57 minutes ago, RobbRiddicksTDLeap said:

Thank God she got it done. She’s so brave. As her constituents, we should all be grateful. 

She's still trying to recover from her sh*tshow appearance at the Rangers game, where she was practically booed off the ice.

[BuffaloBill]

1 hour ago, Malazan said:

 

https://www.si.com/nfl/2022/04/13/bills-new-stadium-public-money-new-york-governor-hochul-san-diego-toronto-franchise-relocation-pegula

https://www.localsyr.com/sports/buffalo-bills/hochul-bills-did-have-options-to-leave-buffalo-before-stadium-deal/

https://billswire.usatoday.com/2022/04/13/kathy-hochul-san-diego-buffalo-bills-relocation-stadium/

 

There ya go. I offer classes on using a message board. Rates start at $1,795/hour. 

 

I will not pay a penny more than $1,794.99!!! Greedy f’in bastard!! 

[machine gun kelly]

2 minutes ago, BuffaloBill said:

 

I will not pay a penny more than $1,794.99!!! Greedy f’in bastard!! 

You drive a hard bargain.

[Riverboat Ritchie]

I hope San Diego gets a team or chargers back. A decent fan base and great place to go watch the Bills play.  I have only seen them lose there though with first game being when Flutie Magic started and almost got them a win. 

[Warcodered]

23 minutes ago, Don Otreply said:

Oh those poor Pegulas, imagine a very tiny violin 🎻 playing my heart bleeds for them…, 😂

Yes because spending 24% of what your net worth is, isn't an absurd idea at all.

[Pokebball]

2 hours ago, machine gun kelly said:

My spec. is that simply trying to let her voters know the threat was real and make the $850 mil. More palatable.  Who knows how serious San Diego was when they wouldn’t fork up the $ for a newer Chargers stadium.  It went to a refendum (like everything on the left coast)

If their strategy was to create some fear and anxiety, they could have chosen a better threat than San Diego. There's a reason San Diego has struggled, not only with professional football but even college football. The only thing appealing in that location is moderate weather. Pretty damn appealing, but that's about all San Diego brings.

Edited April 13, 2022 by Pokebball

[Solomon Grundy]

They figured they got the Braves to bite, why not try😎