How much longer will the Bills remain in Buffalo? (Rochester: credit, neighborhoods)

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

and Syracuse. We get the preseason games and the coaches show here. I wouldn't be surprised if Erie has a lot of Bills supporters too.

I would think Erie would be more geared to the Steelers.

Originally Posted by MPBYO

The Bills will remain as long as Ralph Wilson stays alive. After that the Bills will be acutioned off to the higest bidder, probably in the $750-850 million range. The team will move my guess to L.A. San Jose, San Antonio, Las Vegas, or Albuquerque. The NFL wants nothing to do with small market teams.

If that were true the New Orleans Saints would've been in one of those places by now, especially L.A. And if so, why would a team like the Houston Oilers (a relatively big market) move to Tennessee (a market smaller than Buffalo if you just county the Memphis area the team is in)? And I would think Albuquerque is smaller than Buffalo (market, not city) and San Antonio not much bigger (again market, not city, unlike Buffalo, most of San Antonio's population is in the city limits).

[TheWhale]

You would think that with obama spending $825 billion dollars of tax money that Buffalo would see a handful of huge construction projects.

$825 billion is enough to fund 1,650- $500 million projects, how many is Buffalo seeing
from the obama administration they love so much?

Not that I think any tax dollars should go into stadiums.
I just simply do not see anything at all happening.

And I don't see anyone in the streets chanting for obama.
What happened?

[MPBYO]

[/quote]If that were true the New Orleans Saints would've been in one of those places by now, especially L.A. And if so, why would a team like the Houston Oilers (a relatively big market) move to Tennessee (a market smaller than Buffalo if you just county the Memphis area the team is in)? And I would think Albuquerque is smaller than Buffalo (market, not city) and San Antonio not much bigger (again market, not city, unlike Buffalo, most of San Antonio's population is in the city limits).[/quote]


The Titans are in Nashville. They got the once Houston Oilers because their owner Bud Adams who is the fonder and original owner of the Oilers (and oldest owner in the league) wanted a new stadium. Houston wouldn't give it to him so he left. For the Saints, after hurricane Katrina they played half their home games in San Antonio, and there was a push to have the tem relocate there. Katrina is what actuallysaved the Saints from leaving because of the destruction to the Superdome. Renovations made during the rebuild brought the stadium into the 21st century.

San Antonio has a metro pop of a little over 2 million. Texas in its self could support its own NFL conference, as for Albuquerque just kind of put that out there because of its size and growing population.

I dont want to come off as making doomsday theories of the Bills future, but the odds are against them staying here.

[TheWhale]

Well if they don't stay that's ok.
I really don't see them as a big economic boost of any kind.

[Boompa]

Los Angeles is still an enormous open market

[TheWhale]

Originally Posted by Boompa

Los Angeles is still an enormous open market

Yeah it sure is open, open to any illegal who decides to walk in.
Maybe one of them will buy an NFL team for Los Angeles.

[MPBYO]

Originally Posted by TheWhale

Well if they don't stay that's ok.
I really don't see them as a big economic boost of any kind.

I agree 100%. The team pays these players hundreds of thousands to multi-millions a year and besides a small hand full none of the players take up residents here. As soon as the season ends they take off. Money that could be spent in the local economy isnt. I'm not trying to come off as crying about player salaries; if you can make millions for catching a ball more power to you. Its just with erie county forking over millions to maintain an eye sore of a stadium and players fleeing, there is no local economic boost. The least they could do is by a car from a local dealership or something.

[Boompa]

Originally Posted by TheWhale

Yeah it sure is open, open to any illegal who decides to walk in.
Maybe one of them will buy an NFL team for Los Angeles.

I'm sure the NFL will take your opinion into consideration rather than a market of 8 million people.

[StOrM666]

Originally Posted by MPBYO

I agree 100%. The team pays these players hundreds of thousands to multi-millions a year and besides a small hand full none of the players take up residents here. As soon as the season ends they take off. Money that could be spent in the local economy isnt. I'm not trying to come off as crying about player salaries; if you can make millions for catching a ball more power to you. Its just with erie county forking over millions to maintain an eye sore of a stadium and players fleeing, there is no local economic boost. The least they could do is by a car from a local dealership or something.

Thats because its not a very desirable place to live.

Enjoy the team while it lasts, soon it too will be moving to greener pastures like the hundreds of thousand of others who have left.

Just turn out the lights if your the last to leave.

[TheWhale]

Originally Posted by Boompa

I'm sure the NFL will take your opinion into consideration rather than a market of 8 million people.

You don't seem to read too well.
I said that I don't care what the NFL does with the Bills.

As far as that "8 million people", only the fraction that are american citizens have a legitimate voice in this country as far as myself and like thinking people are concerned.

If the NFL considers illegals as their audience that's a non-issue to me so long as the welfare department isn't buying them tickets.