5 Cities Tried to Steal The Bills From WNY

[Draconator]

5 hours ago, peterpan said:

Honestly, what’s with the NFL and their stadium complaints?  No one is rebuilding “the shoe” at Ohio state, no one says “the big house” at Michigan is too old.   The LA Coliseum is plenty good for USC.  I think all those stadiums hold more seats than any NFL stadium and college games are just as big productions/broadcasts

 

One big difference between those stadiums and the current Highmark Stadium. 

 

Those other stadiums won't have an upper deck collapsing in approximately 10 years. This is one of the big reasons we're getting a new stadium in 2026. 

[White Linen]

5 hours ago, stuvian said:

 

so Peyton Manning is behind this!

 

No, it was Paintin Manning.

[RiotAct]

7 hours ago, Jukester said:

She doesn’t say which 5 cities

 

She also says “we’re [the state] in for $650M of what will be a well over $2B stadium.”  What?? No other detail given on what caused such crazy overruns of what started at $1.4B

of course not, and you’re a bad citizen for even daring to ask!!!

[ganesh]

7 hours ago, Old Coot said:

At varying points Austin TX, Portland OR, St Louis & San Diego were all interested.

 

Let's hear it for the San Diego Bills!  NOT!

Toronto

[US Egg]

Nice to know we won’t be having this conversation for another 25 20 15…..until Allen is done.

[Kaenon]

Is the $650M overrun for the retractable roof?

[ExiledInIllinois]

13 hours ago, BearNorth said:

I think the San Antonio/Austin Corridor [5MM people] would support a team, but Jerry Jones will block that.

 

San Diego had a team and let it walk, too many other things to do on the weekend.

 

Orlando is then next biggest metro, but Tampa might think, not in my back yard, and Jacksonville struggles to fill their stadium.

 

I was interested to see that other than Green Bay, Buffalo is still a bigger market than New Orleans, & esp when you add in Rochester, Buffalo's market is the same size as Nashville.

 

 

Remember when teams that were close wanted local rivalries?

 

1950 comes to mind when Baltimore folded for 2 years coming out of the AAFL & then moved to NFL... So they can be a local rivalry for Washington. 

 

Screwed the first incarnation of the BFLo Bills out of crossing over in 1950 to the NFL...

 

SF & Cleveland absorbed the rest of the AAFL players and crossed over to the NFL...

[Saxum]

6 hours ago, US Egg said:

Nice to know we won’t be having this conversation for another 25 20 15…..until Allen is done.

 

Hopefully he can be cloned by then as in the movie "The 6th Day" - QBs will be even more expensive 

 

 

Mijami may need this ability soon. 

[Sweats]

Wasn't Toronto in the mix there somewhere?.........what a piss poor failed experiment that was.

[Mat68]

15 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

I can think of:

 

1. Portland

2. San Antonio

3. Salt Lake City

4. St.Louis

5. San Diego

 

 

More Money now in Austin. 

[benderbender]

The state of journalism nowadays. Reporters don't dig. Interviewers don't ask follow up questions. And yet somehow we're supposed to know what is misinformation. 

[LittleSammy]

I took my son to his first Bills game when he was 5 years old. When we got home my wife asked him what he liked best about the game. His response was "Mom, they were peeing in the sink in the restroom". This is our equivalent of The Masters, " a tradition like no other"!

[Mr. WEO]

I heard it was 500 cities.

 

This is pretty bad pandering by the Gov--"I saved the Bills from moving to 5 other places that I cannot name!  Oh, by the way, the stadium will cost over 2 billion, so $650 million is nothing!"

 

lol--politicians at their craven worst.

[BuffaloBillsGospel2014]

17 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/5-other-cities-tried-to-steal-buffalo-bills-from-wny-new-stadium-cost-to-surpass-2-billion

[chongli]

16 hours ago, Breakout Squad said:

St. Louis had to have tried. They want the NFL back bad. 

 

Too late. They already lost a team twice.

[SF Bills Fan]

16 hours ago, Malazan said:

 

I lived in Austin until last year. The city and people of Austin did not have interest.

Yes- agree. I still am in Austin and the news that Austin was interested was a surprise to everyone. 

 

there are few cities in the US that are options for an NFL team move. Jerry Jones would block a Texas move. Orlando doesn't seem realistic given they are surrounded by teams. Moving to Portland or St Louis isn't necessarily an upgrade in wealth and population. I saw a study that said if you drew a 90 mile circle around all of the NFL markets, Buffalo goes from near the bottom to 4th because of Rochester and Canada. 

[Mr Info]

24 minutes ago, SF Bills Fan said:

…Buffalo goes from near the bottom to 4th because of Rochester and Canada. 

I recall my PSL rep stating that 16% of season tickets were from Canada.

[DrDawkinstein]

17 hours ago, Jukester said:

She doesn’t say which 5 cities

 

She also says “we’re [the state] in for $650M of what will be a well over $2B stadium.”  What?? No other detail given on what caused such crazy overruns of what started at $1.4B

 

Does it matter considering the Pegulas signed on to absorb any of the overage costs? Might as well spend Terry's money and inject some of it back into the local economy one way or another.

 

 

Edited October 24 by DrDawkinstein

[Breakout Squad]

33 minutes ago, chongli said:

 

Too late. They already lost a team twice.

St. Louis lost their team because their owner is a greedy scum bag.