Mr. WEO

"it turned out" the way we all knew it was going to because JA is the franchise and that contract absolutely was a priority. Beane's comments re: Digg's contract status don't have the same weight or inevitability because it's not the same or similar priority.

true but the other poster wasn't making that distinction, but drawing an equivalence in the importance (and risk?) of their new contracts and the expedience in which they get done. There really isn't a significant equivalence. 3 of the top 5 WR last season have only played 2, 1 and 3 seasons, respectively. They can wait on Diggs...

JA's impact on this team's fortunes is orders of magnitude larger than Diggs's. Your franchise QB's second contract gets done. Your WR1 comes and goes--ask the Vikings.

I think they saw how the Bills blew the lead in regulation and said "nah...that doesn't get a second chance".

The amount lost if the team left town is a tiny fraction of what is being fronted for the stadium. Far more millionaires have already left NY than are employed by the Bills...yet it still can afford to blow billions in Buffalo.

They were pretty sure they were there in 2021....

Well the big splash of V Miller was certainly big. Adding Philips and Lawson (2 guys they let go not long ago not a huge move (drafting their replacements has not quite worked out yet, so they had to get them back I guess), not seismic. Saffold for a year? But only 2 years ago Diggs (in his prime, for 1st round pick) was even more of a splash on all levels. Plus Addison to shore up the D. Last year they added Breida and Sanders and it seemed like a thing at the time. If they can get to the SB this year as a result of these moves, then it's all golden.....

so the Bills won yet another off-season? cool.. dunked on..

that was excellent

Yes, so that would be the other owners, not Pegula, paying the G4 back. Players salary taxes are not new revenue for the state, yet this is a new expense for the state.. That money already goes into the general fund of the State. You can't now say.. "oh it pays for itself". That money is already spent on other things.

Hochul going around saying the stadium will have an ANNUAL impact of “more than” $385 million! Wtf, lol. Shameless.

Understood, but actual innocence can be proven in court, even with a not guilty verdict.

Actual innocence can be proven if (it is proven) there was no crime committed or it is proven someone other than the defendant committed it.

They ran out of these at his local men's shelter...

folds easily too Another Off Season SB win tho...OP just said so

works out with great attitude and a lots of energy? so do these guys.. say what?

at $385K per catch, that's a little steep bro.

what? hell no....

Well if you want to go by "ratio", it's an even worse deal for the NY taxpayers. The second most expensive public deal was the LV Raiders just opened stadium, where the public kicked in 750 and the Raiders put up 1.1 BILLION.

The most expensive public contribution for any stadium ever--by 100 million.

"Pegula 350+" means ..."from the season ticket holders"

it thought it was execute...

Without the shared revenue, teams like the Buffalo Bills would cease to exist because they wouldn't earn that money outside of a revenue sharing agreement. So if an entity is given money it otherwise could not earn in the same business....it's free money, plain and simple. And what other of Pegula's billions has created almost another billion in wealth in 8 years? Local ratings are nice and all, but small markets bring smaller ad revenue per 30 second spot, so they aren't as valuable/generate less revenue for the networks laying out the billions for NFL broadcast rights. Those billions aren't driven by the Buffalo and Cleveland Browns. Ask any network CEO what teams they would rather have at the top of their divisions and go deep every year into the playoffs... The Browns may recently be putting in some money, but no one can be bad for the decades they have been by ineptitude alone.

As I have stated several times already, the 1.4 billion initial investment will have doubled in less than 10 years. Why haven't taken that into account? The annual profit is just a nice dividend on his initial investment--with zero risk. If I had billions I would jump at the chance to buy the least expensive NFL franchise. You would have to be crazy not to. Guaranteed income, guaranteed appreciation, zero investment risk, unimaginable exclusivity and prestige....is that a serious question?? lol The bolded is proof as to why my post is accurate (and why there will never be a serious challenge to the NFL's "antitrust exemption"). Without the hundreds of millions of free money to every franchise, teams like the Bills in Buffalo would have no value whatsoever. With the shared revenue, the value rises every year for every team, no matter how awful the product on. the field is. No other business operates like this (each team is a separate business). The highest revenue generating teams and those in the biggest TV markets are driving the overall league annual revenue. All teams are getting "equal distribution", but they are not getting an amount proportional to what they contribute to league revenues, so it is not exactly "well deserved". Do the Browns deserve equal shares despite showing zero interest in putting a competitive product on the field that no one in the country wants to watch? Of course not, but they do. So it is money they get but that is not earned. Therefore, it I free money. As for return on investment, any asset's value is its actual or estimated sale price. No sense pointing that out in regard to a major sports team.