Archives for September 2014

‘So yesterday, after over 20 years of worrying about losing this team we all love so much; after 6 months of constant worrying and wondering. After a summer of hating Bon Jovi and hearing the cat-calls from people who just don’t know or get it, taunting us, reveling in our uncertainty, telling us how we don’t matter to the league and the NFL would rather be somewhere else. After all of that. It all ended. It All. Ended. Yesterday. September 9th, 2014. The day we could all finally stop worrying. Stop wondering. Start celebrating. Finally devote all our attention to the Bills on the field. The way it should be.’

‘This is Carpenter’s first player of the week award as a Buffalo Bill and first since he earned the honor in Week Eight of 2010 with Miami. He really wanted to play the award down after Wednesday’s practice, “It’s nice to get recognized, but I’m just doing my job. If I get three field goal attempts, I’m going to expect to make three field goals. I don’t think it was anything real special, I’m just doing my job and doing my part to help this team win.”‘

‘Linebacker Keith Rivers was unable to participate in practice when the team took the field on Wednesday. A groin injury caused Rivers to leave, and not return, to Sunday’s game against the Chicago Bears. The same injury kept the linebacker off the field to start the week, and was described by head coach Doug Marrone as a “day-to-day” ailment. His status for the team’s upcoming game has yet to be determined.’

‘From a player’s perspective, they don’t follow the story, but of course want the team to stay in Buffalo. EJ Manuel said, “We’re very excited, we’re happy it was able to get done, we’re happy we’re going to be staying in Buffalo and we’re just happy for our fans right now.”‘

‘”It definitely was something I don’t want to be a part of anymore in my career,” Bradham told Buffalobills.com. “Being away from the team and away from the guys and the coaches and Sunday you have to watch your brothers go to battle without you. So it’s one of those things where you don’t want to be in that situation ever again.”‘

‘”It’s kind of like a feeling we didn’t have. We didn’t know the whole time where it was going to go. We wanted to stay here. Everybody wanted to stay here, especially for me being from Buffalo and all my family here, everybody is here and everybody wanted that and I wanted it to stay here and I think a lot of our players did. We got what we wanted.”‘

‘Carpenter is also the first Buffalo Bills player to earn Player of the Week honors in Week 1 since Roscoe Parrish was named special teams player of the week on Kickoff Weekend in 2008.’

‘”Cordy Glenn, he and I really clicked so he helps me with a lot of things,” said Henderson. “He’d tell me how to place my feet and how to shoot my hips and it just started getting easier. I’m more of a visual learner so watching him take his sets and make his lateral movements I tried to mirror that. He’s a good guy to look at and he’s been doing a good job since he’s been here. So that’s my guy.”‘

‘”Bills fans, we stick through the good and bad, don’t we?” she said, acknowledging trips from Buffalo’s greats like Jim Kelly and Andre Reed to her alma mater Roberts Wesleyan College during the Super Bowl years. “They’re here, they’re our team, so going someplace else would’ve been the hardest thing. They’re a part of us.”‘

‘This is big news because it goes beyond sports. This is about making the decision to re-invest in a business for long-term benefits, rather than making a knee-jerk reaction to move that business to another city on the promise of short-term gains.’

‘The Pegulas’ bid was that dominant.’

‘A source close to the Bon Jovi bidding group, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the group bid $1,050,000,000 for the Bills and could have gone higher but felt that amount matched the team’s value. The source also said media reports that the rocker had split apart from the two Toronto investors were incorrect.’

‘The source added that Bon Jovi and his group signed a waiver during negotiations that they would not move the team to Toronto or any other city and that the group was engaged in talks with unidentified entities to build a new stadium in Western New York.’

‘”It was my great honor to have the opportunity to bid on the Buffalo Bills football team,” billionaire developer Donald Trump declared in statement. “A large part of the reason for my bid was to ensure that the team remained in Buffalo.’