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1 minute ago, Logic said:


The Pegulas currently own 100% of the Buffalo Bills football team.

They are selling 25% -- or one quarter -- ownership of the team.

This will leave them with 75% -- or three quarters -- ownership of the team.

They are doing this to make some money.

Hope this helps.

I got all that, but whom are they selling the 25% to and does this interfere with the team staying or going? Already admitted to being an idiot about this stuff so I am just trying to understand it all.

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1 minute ago, Aimee75 said:

I got all that, but whom are they selling the 25% to and does this interfere with the team staying or going? Already admitted to being an idiot about this stuff so I am just trying to understand it all.


If we had those answers it would be in the post but the process seems to be just starting 

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Logic said:


The Pegulas currently own 100% of the Buffalo Bills football team.

They are selling 25% -- or one quarter -- ownership of the team.

This will leave them with 75% -- or three quarters -- ownership of the team.

They are doing this to make some money.

Hope this helps.

Yeah even in the next generation as long as they're all on the same page no issue, if they weren't it'd be a cluster***** which it'd have been before most likely only now with an outside force brought in.

Posted
8 minutes ago, Logic said:


It's more and more common for sports owners to do this.

Tax reasons, stadium cost overruns, etc, etc...

Graham lays it out well in the article.

Yeah Mark Cuban recently did this with the Mavs.. but he actually did the majority

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Posted (edited)
8 minutes ago, noacls said:

The browns and colts say hello. 

 

Did they have a stadium coming out of the ground across the street when they moved? Teams usually move because they can’t get a stadium. 

 

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Posted
8 minutes ago, nucci said:

sounds like 25% of the team is for sale

 

….and it’s gonna cost a bit more than 50 yard line Club seats. 

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I've had a long standing theory that Bills (and Sabres) ownership is more fragile than it appears.  It does not surprise me to see this announcement.

 

Terry is in his early 70s, Kim's status as owner is unknown, and none of the five kids are easy to spot heir apparent to running the menagerie of companies he has in his portfolio.

 

What you really don't want to see is Terry pass unexpectedly, and the ownership is transacted by the family to the highest bidder.  That's a nightmare Bon Jovi scenario.  The likelihood of the Bills being owned by someone like Terry with a deep appreciation of Buffalo and western New York is slim in that scenario.  

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Just now, Aimee75 said:

I got all that, but whom are they selling the 25% to and does this interfere with the team staying or going? Already admitted to being an idiot about this stuff so I am just trying to understand it all.


I was just being cheeky. 

I don't think anyone knows who the bidders will be at this point, but I assume there will be no shortage of suitors.

At this point, there is no reason to believe they are selling any more than 25%, or are moving on from being owners of the Bills, or moving the team, or anything of the sort. The stadium is being built. The Bills aren't going anywhere.

As for the "why" if it, Graham lays it out in his article: Tax considerations, liquidity, stadium overrun costs, etc.

 

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