CodeMonkey

Yes, owning in the same city is fine. Jacobs cannot because he owns the Bruins, which is in another city.

Wow this is completely backwards. The rules change minimally every year in the NFL. Additionally as an owner he wold have a say in any rule changes, plus the other owners also want to make money as well so they are like minded. And finding quality people you can trust is harder in football than in business? You don't really believe in the current global economy is is harder to run a NFL team than a business, do you?

Oh I see, But if all he was looking for was profit by essentially "flipping" the team, there are a lot safer and cheaper investments than a 800 million dollar purchase. Golisano I believe purchased the Sabres primarily so they would stay in Buffalo. And it was about 25% the cost of the Bills.

Plummets? I thought it was valued at about $800 million?

Mr. Wilson bought the team for very little money and he carried no debt on the team. Any new buyer, including Trump, will be paying close to a billion dollars. They will absolutely NOT make money the way Mr. Wilson did on the team if it stays in Buffalo under the same conditions as now (ticket prices, suite sales, etc.). Plus with Trump it as an ego thing as well. What strokes him more, a team in Buffalo or a larger more flashy market. I'm not saying he would move the team for sure because who knows with him. But it is certainly a distinct possibility.

If they did then enforcement would be easy without needing to stripsearch people coming into the stadium for cigs. Same for drunks etc.

How about this for an idea. One way to be able to make fans safer by enforcing the rules is to install a series of cameras around the stadium. Someone in security would use the cameras to scan all of the sections during the game. If (s)he sees some idiot getting ready to slide down a railing, or staggering drunk, or smoking or whatever they radio the nearest security officers to the section and gives them a seat location. So if there is a ban say on smoking they can eject the person even if they are done smoking by the time security gets there. They can bring the person to the security office and show them the video of the infraction. They could even use the fancy new WiFi and equip security officers with tablets to positively identify the offender and show them if they protest. That would really help enforce the rules, wouldn't cost very much, and would still allow for people to carry cigs into the stadium if they wanted to for after they leave the stadium.

Where I work anyway they are also banned. There is still 2nd hand smoke with them.

1) You can buy seat cushions for less than $10. So $5 per game seems a tad steep. Personally I think they should make it a free option for season ticket holders. But the plan as you stated would be OK by me so long as they did not ban bringing in your own cushion if you wanted to. 2) Seems kind of silly and unnecessary to me. But if people are still acting like children and lighting up in the stadium then maybe they have to do something like that.

We are eating dinner then so inconvenient. Plus I like watching the replays they show between live plays and 75 minutes for a game is not too much time. But 4 hours of broadcast for 40 min of action is something to think about.

I thought I WAS watching a condensed game since it was sans commercials and halftime! It was fairly easy to record a game and automatically strip commercials. Not sure how I would automatically go from the end of a play right to the next snap.

Yup.

Wow that's quick. I record the games during the season, strip out commercials then watch. I also manually skip halftime and I'm still at about 70 -75 minutes. Does that jump from the end of a play right to the next snap?

Not like might be harsh. But this regime did not draft Spiller. And a situational skatback like Spiller does not seem, at least to me, to be a player someone like Marrone (and by extension his mini-me Hackett) would covet.

She will see right through that and realize you are ALL crazy my friend

Lots of talk before an actual offer. "What would you be looking for? Two firsts and a second. Have a nice day!".

I appreciate your positive outlook, but tourism?

Not really a spoiler compared to what they used to do. Those douchebags are wrong more than they are right. They are still guessing. Before they would have a camera back in the holding pen and focus on who got the phone call. That really was a spoiler.

Well if that's true he has little chance. He can't just post up at the TE position in the NFL But it doesn't cost them much to look !

That is an excellent description, and actually I find both networks to be that way. I watch the first pick overall, then watch something else until the Bills first pick. Listen to the analysis of said pick, then change channels again until the Bills second pick. Then I'm done.

True. But let's face it, with QB being the sole exception, learning to play any position on a football team is not very difficult if you have the physical attributes and are a good athlete. And if the Bills can steal a TE, even a backup, without having to use a draft pick then why shouldn't they?

How dare you come in here with a mere 300 posts and not state that either Manuel is great or he is a bust after his first season!?!? Next you will be saying you don't know for a fact that the Bills new ownership will or will not move the team! Blasphemy I say!

Not that many "large markets" in England. And the ones that do have a team, if not more than one (Manchester City and Manchester United for example). And the smaller markets with teams have had these teams in most cases for longer than the United States has been the United States. Teams there do not move like they sometimes do here. Not a relevant comparison. Your "reality" is predicated upon the assumption that a new owner would care what the people of WNY thought of them. They might, but they also might be thinking long term, not short term like you are. We will know when we know.

I believe your opinion is too short sighted. In my opinion, anyone with the resources to buy an NFL franchise is thinking of long term, not short term, profitability. Any fees, fines, costs etc. to relocate the team if they so desired would be factored in as part of the one time cost of ownership. A cost which could be made up in some number of years in a larger, more profitable, market. Unfortunately I don't deal in billion dollar purchases any more than I assume you do. So you may well be right. Or at the very least the new owners could conclude that it is in their better interests to leave the team in Buffalo for 5 or 6 years for the opt-out while they make arrangements (build a new stadium for example) somewhere else. I guess we will see when the time comes.

Of course it would be expensive to break the lease. And rightly so as the different entities are looking to invest significantly in stadium improvements. But anyone here saying the lease cannot be broken is just as silly as someone saying it would be cheap and easy to break it. New ownership will know what they are going to do and in what time-frame before they buy the team. But whatever they do, the lease will be one of many factors in their decision, not the only one.