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That would certainly make for some interesting, if not suicidal, threads on here

Makes perfect sense due to the fact that very few people outside of the US (and maybe Canada) give a rats ass about tackle football.

They don't need to. It is already available on the Canadian satellite TV provider Bell Express and has been for years. It is also available on multiple Canadian cable TV providers including Rogers Cable. DirectTV only has the exclusive rights in the US. SKY Mexico (Mexican satellite TV provider) also offers the Sunday Ticket.

Interesting timing to be sure. He certainly has the experience, the contacts, and the means to be an NFL owner again if he wanted to. Doubt he would have much interest in keeping the team in Buffalo.

There are a couple of very informative posts on page 4 of this thread about the non-relocation aspect of the lease. http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/166653-report-lease-buyout-does-not-exist/page__st__60

I agree. Even if the Bills leave in a couple years it seems to me that Mr. Wilson did everything to keep them in Buffalo that a reasonable person could expect.

Thank Darryl for me. These two posts explain it very well.

I tend to agree with you, but I am not fluent in legalese. However as someone mentioned above, paying the $400 mil as a penalty for being in breach of contract is very different than paying the money as part of a buy-out clause ... at least as far as public relations goes. But somehow I doubt if the Bills move from Buffalo the NFL will care much about what Buffalo fans think, and the rest of the public probably won't care. I think you mean the county?

There is a link to a PDF file on the county execs site that spells out the non-relocation agreement for anyone interested. I am no lawyer but it looks to me like a "non-relocation default" is certainly possible. But I could be 100% wrong. Then again, this is also in the document so who the hell knows ...

Above mine as well. I just Googled it a bit and the way I read it, if the Bills are in breach of contract (i.e. break the lease) they pay $400 mil which is what people have been saying all along. But I am no lawyer, in fact legalese makes me dizzy.

Both sites say a similar thing ... What this random blogger quoting someone else is saying that the "right of specific performance" can't happen. I'm no lawyer, but if it cannot happen why would it even be in the agreement. Like everything else, we will know when we know.

Not necessarily true. I recently went though a similar situation (albeit at a MUCH lower net worth). Parts of the estate that would take a long time to resolve were automatically put into a trust at the persons death so the rest of the estate could be settled quickly while the more complicated assets were settled as part of the trust. I have no clue how the Wilson estate is being handled, but there are a lot of things being expressed as fact in this thread that aren't necessarily (not aimed specifically at you my robotic friend).

Understood. But if they were at your house with you cracking jokes and just having a good time during the commercials then it would not have been brutal. The fact that you were having a good time during the deadtime would be the same regardless if you were at the stadium or at your house or some random bar. Deadtime is deadtime no matter where you are.

Doesn't matter if they go 0-15. To the people that think stadium attendance matters in the decision process to stay in Buffalo or not (I am not one) all that matters is every home game selling out no matter what. Anything less gives new ownership reason to leave Buffalo.

An argument could also be made that perhaps he has been trying to do just that for years, but there were no buyers willing to stay in Buffalo that could put together a reasonable offer. Only a couple of people would know this, and I suspect none of them are on here

Agreed. But after the respect period things may move quicker than some expect simply due to the fact that this has been coming for several years and most, if not all, of the interested parties should already be prepared and ready to go as soon as the family and league are ready to proceed. Interesting times ahead for sure.

A relocation fee that the NFL could easily wave if they like what the new owner wants to do. Look, very few people know what is going on, and they are busy mourning at the moment. The lease et. al. is a deterrent, nothing more. Certainly not a deal breaker for guys who deal in billion dollar businesses. Logic to me would dictate the team would be sold as soon as possible simply to achieve a level of owner stability when dealing with contract extensions and FA acquisitions. We will know when we know and not before.

Decaf is just as tasty as the real thing these days.

If your friends were at your house, problem solved

22 out of 32 is not very good at all when you consider that the Bills currently carry no debt. Any new owner paying upwards of a billion dollars for the team would probably not be in the same situation. But like others have said we should have a better idea when the new ownership in known, and we will know when we know.

Except that you forgot punt ... commercial

I have not seen the lease but what you say is what is widely reported so it is safe to assume it is true. But if an offer comes in for the Bills from someone that the NFL owners like, and that owner wants to move the team to a larger market that would make the NFL more money, all of the owners could throw in 13 mil to buy out the lease. They would recoup that in pretty short order in the right market. Not saying that's what will happen because like all of you, I have no idea or inside information. But burying your head in the sand because of the stadium lease doesn't make much sense to me.

I have been doing something similar for the past 2 seasons. I have software on my PC that records the game and automatically strips out commercials once recording is complete. Then for the 1pm starts we watch the commercial free game while eating dinner Sunday. All I have to do is manually skip halftime. The 4pm games are a little annoying in that we wait until Monday dinner to watch due to the late end of the game, I also get the bonus of being able to do things with the family Sunday afternoons. For us it works out extremely well. In-game ads would be the smart thing for them to do in my opinion.

"I think the NFL is 10 years away from an implosion. I'm just telling you, pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. And [the NFL is] getting hoggy." -- Mark Cuban I tend to agree. http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-basketball/24498301/mark-cuban-nfl-is-10-years-from-implosion

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