Comments on: Bills have 10-year lease, with seven-year out http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/ ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.com Sat, 25 May 2013 22:07:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mackcarrington http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2199922 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 02:23:37 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2199922 Look at what the Cleveland Browns recently sold for. A little over a billion. Look at what the Dodgers AND their stadium sold for. A little over 2 billion. The Bills (they’ll have to change that name) will almost be a bargain going into the Los Angeles market. Bills fans still living in Buffalo better hope that Ralph lives to be 110 years old. And if you read the letters to the local papers, the majority don’t want the Bills to stay there anyway.

]]> By: mackcarrington http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2199914 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 02:12:51 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2199914 The State and County did pretty good for themselves by making sure they get $400 million in their pockets when the Wilson family sells the team to Los Angeles interests. The new owner will be paying approximately $1.2 or $1.3 billion to put a team in a new stadium that he doesn’t have to pay for. The builder of the stadium will own that, and the corporate revenue streams will help ease the pocketbook of the team owner. Erie county is HOPING the Bills want to leave by 2023. They will feel like they found a leprechaun’s pot of gold.

]]> By: dtjano http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2199851 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:55:41 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2199851 I think that the lease gives the new owner leverage. Get serious abut building a new stadium sooner rather than later.

Ralph had 0 to do with negotiations and wasn’t present at the press conference. Doesn’t take one too long to think that a new owner will be sooner rather than later thus the sense of urgency to get the deal done.

]]> By: billsin20xx http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2199647 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 22:15:55 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2199647 It’s weird though, they can leave in year 7 for a $30M fee, or they can leave in years 8, 9 and 10 for a $400M fee….
One rumor is that if they don’t leave after year 7 then a new stadium will be built for them, hence the high penalties for years 8-10.

]]> By: billsfaninmiami http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2199392 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:00:29 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2199392 Glad the Bills are staying in the Buff and getting that much needed upgrade on the 30 yr old Ralph.
Still one of the best tailgate sites in the NFL!

]]> By: ihatethejets23 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2199255 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:58:09 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2199255 NoHomeTeam says: Does anyone think that that people in Buffalo would continue to follow the Bills if they permanently become the Toronto Bills?

No chance. Most would likely cease to watch the NFL and then we can get all of our misery from the Buffalo Sabres instead.

]]> By: rekingcrew http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2199223 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:41:10 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2199223 Congrats on watching your Bills getting 50 dropped on them for the next 7 years.

]]> By: NoHomeTeam http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2199209 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:36:35 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2199209 skinsrock says: I don’t think it will be 7 years before football returns to LA. Chargers make the most sense. Diehard SD fans could still travel to see their team play while opening a larger market in L.A.

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See, here’s what I don’t understand: If you are a “die hard fan” of a team — this assumes you actually live in that team’s metro area — and the team moves to another city, how do you possibly remain a fan of that team?

That team has left you behind. After years of supporting them, going to the games, buying their merchandise, probably taking abuse for being a fan (good teams never seem to move), the team has essentially told you “Sorry, it’s just not enough.”

And you would continue to support that team?

Does anyone think that that people in Buffalo would continue to follow the Bills if they permanently become the Toronto Bills?

]]> By: dannymac17 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2199164 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:16:43 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2199164 calling LA a horrible city of Losers is blasphemous. If it wasnt for LA, yall woulda forgot about dre.

]]> By: dirte42 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2199108 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:58:37 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2199108 I’m curious, does anyone know what upgrades the stadium will be getting with the 130 mil?

]]> By: buffalobills2012 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2199041 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:15:56 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2199041 @spicymudbugs
The Bills could have left anytime in the past 3 years for a 2 million dollar relocation fee not to mention the 400 million now.
As for the 1-50 Bigger cities, do any have a fan base like the Bills? We sell out 80% of all our games even though the product has be atrocious with one of the biggest stadiums in the league. How about the population of the surrounding suburbs and southern ontario and Rochester?
We are fine. If anything, and if you just heard the Gov and County Execs presser, they are going to have a new stadium in 10 years.

]]> By: nflofficeadmin http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2199017 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:02:30 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2199017 Is LA clamoring for a pro football team…

]]> By: spicymudbugs http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2199001 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:55:42 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2199001 buffalobills2012 says: Dec 21, 2012 11:28 AM

@spicymudbugs please tell me where they will go in 7 yrs.

Buffalo is ranked 50th in metro area ranking nationwide
Pick any one of the cities 1 – 49 that doesn’t have an NFL team.

]]> By: maniakalol http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2198993 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:50:07 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2198993 Fins fan here – please keep the Bills in Buffalo.

]]> By: EJ http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2198991 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:49:36 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2198991 This deal is exactly what was needed for all Bills fans, including Jim Kelly. This will give Kelly and Thomas plenty of time to get everything together in order to make the team theirs and keep the franchise where it belongs, In Buffalo. Kelly didn’t just play here, he loves this city and everything it comes with. There is no other person that deserves to own this team than Jim.
Get it done Kelly! Go Bills!!!! #BillsMafia

]]> By: glac1 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2198987 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:47:21 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2198987 Buffalo deserves a franchise.

]]> By: hehateme2 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2198962 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:36:05 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2198962 Bigger question is if the Bills will make it to the playoffs during the next 7 years??

]]> By: catquick http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2198938 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:28:59 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2198938 Btw…..ever notice how real rich folks always live past 100?

]]> By: buffalobills2012 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2198935 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:28:11 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2198935 @spicymudbugs please tell me where they will go in 7 yrs.

]]> By: catquick http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2198934 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:28:04 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2198934 How can a team move to London? Interpol would never allow that many felons permanent residence

]]> By: ballboy48 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2198927 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:25:55 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2198927 This is great news for Bills fans! As a Cleveland Browns fan, it would’ve been terrible to see them leave.

$400 Million opt out is not that much, for an owner who wants to relocate a team to the second largest media market in the states. That’s the part that is scary. The Bills are valued (as of 2011, Forbes) at $776 Million. To have to pay $1.2 Million to move to LA is not unrealistic. That’s what is scary about this opt out option! Haslam just paid $1.05 Billion for the Browns.

]]> By: spicymudbugs http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2198886 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:07:02 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2198886 This sounds like more bad than good news for Buffalo fans. Leaves the owner with an unbelievably easy out after 7 years. Of course it gives the city time to enhance the stadium via taxpayers but with no penalty to move in 7 years, other cities will be lining up to court the Bills. I hate to see teams move and i hope they stay but to me it seems like this deal is about 80% in favor of the owner. Sorry state of sports when money rules everything

]]> By: gobills716 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2198802 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:40:11 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2198802 The world may be ending in a matter of hours but at least we’ll have a football team when the fat lady sings. Very happy right now. Too bad we have two more weeks of torture left in this season…

]]> By: steelerer http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2198796 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:37:10 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2198796 1st this isnt an issue til 5 years from now, so who cares. 2nd the stadium will be 40 years old next year, and 45+ years old when the 7 year option is available, my guess is this is to give the bills an option to try and get a stadium first, if not they get out.

]]> By: christopher525 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2198773 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:29:12 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2198773 This means that Jim Kelly and his investors need to start bringing a ton of cash together, so they can be said “highest bidder” and keep the team in Buffalo.

]]> By: packh8er http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2198675 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:52:26 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2198675 Congrats Bills fans.

Signed – An equally relieved Vikes fan.

]]> By: joetoronto http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2198657 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:45:23 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2198657 filthymcnasty1 says:
Dec 21, 2012 9:22 AM
Re: “This clause is, obviously, aimed at allowing Ralph Wilson’s family to sell the team to the highest bidder, even if said bidder would be inclined to move the team to L.A.”

I don’t get it. Cuomo left the back door open to relocation, and he expects Bills fans to be happy about it?
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I’m with ya, I think a lot of people have misunderstood what this means.

]]> By: riggo08 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2198625 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:36:46 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2198625 While it would be sad to see the Bills leave Buffalo, the NFL has made it clear that they want a fan base outside of the U.S.. I see them moving to Toronto in 7 years while Jacksonville or San Diego move to Los Angeles. It’s about business, not the fans.

]]> By: voltron217 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2198610 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:33:18 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2198610 Now we’ll get the announcement that they’ve extended the stupid Toronto series.

]]> By: nesportsfan0428 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/21/bills-have-10-year-lease-with-seven-year-out/#comment-2198601 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:30:02 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1600520#comment-2198601 I’m a Pats fan, and I make the trek out to Buffalo every year for Pats/Bills game. It’s always one of the best weekends of the year.

Glad I get to look forward to it for years to come.

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