CodeMonkey

He brings to the table the ability to sell tickets. Bills fans love him, and rightly so. You nailed it when you said "cheerleader". For example, if Gailey is to return next season and someone has to announce that. Would Bills fans be more or less likely to revolt if Kelly makes the case to keep him.

If by some miracle it is on TV here I probably will record and watch. But I won't go to any effort like finding the satellite feed if it is not on broadcast TV.

He won't be running the business. If this is even true, he will be given a title like assistant GM, or vice president in charge of selling tickets and OBD will parade him around press conferences and other PR opportunities and that will be that.

I smell Brandon all over this little gem if it ends up being true. Season ticket sales go up after the team takes a major dump for the 13th consecutive season, and the third under the current GM/HC regime. Well played Mr. Smithers, well played.

Hard to start when Gailey refuses to even dress him.

Because violent play is what makes NFL games popular.

OBD has all of their season ticket money already. All they miss out on would be concession and parking money. They also know that the vast majority of Bills seasons holders will re-up regardless next season. With even more doing so when Brandon comes up with his next gimmick. OBD will not be worried at all in my opinion.

Actually 100% incorrect. He used the words "prevent concussions". Helmets can, and to some degree already do, prevent concussions. And improvements on that can still be achieved. However I would agree that concussions probably cannot be eliminated completely..

Anything Bills fans do or do not do, even showing up or not showing up, will matter Sunday. The game will be blacked out locally so the only area getting the game televised will be people in NYC area and some small number of people watching via Sunday Ticket. Very few people will bother to tune in to watch this turd bowl battle between two worthless teams. So any kind of protest will go largely unnoticed.

Agreed. This game will be won by the team that manages to suck the least that day. A sportscaster here in Rochester set the number of occupied seats at the Ralph over/under at 50% for Sunday. Gee I wonder if this game will be blacked out

Interesting read. http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-12/helmet-wars-and-new-helmet-could-protect-us-all

Plus Gailey wants the win. He was 4-12, then 6-10. If The Bills lose this Sunday he will be 5-11 and worse in season 3 than in season 2.

Dementia making us think it is the early 90's again? They absolutely tanked it. And it worked. I'd prefer one season of suck to the 13 and counting years Bills fans have.

Sadly I believe you are correct ... 50-50.

It was interesting to go back and reread this thread now. I was thinking 7 or even 8 wins if the Bills got lucky this season. Almost incomprehensible that the Bills could still be this bad the third year of the "rebuild". But here we are.

Maybe. But by year 3 you expect to start seeing improvement, like the phish are. The Bills, if anything, are regressing.

"You better throw some touchdowns pretty !@#$ing quick or we both will be collecting unemployment next season!"

SJ is a good receiver but he sucked today. Including another stupid penalty.

Like all games the Bills lose, right? You "the refs hate the Bills" people really need to realize how petty you sound and how wrong you are. Quite frankly you all are an embarrassment to Bills fans.

No contract is 100% "iron clad". Plus for a group of billionaires in a large market, 400 million is not necessarily a deal breaker. Bottom line is as it always has been. We will see when we see.

Maybe that's Brandons angle, who knows. But I do know one thing, Brandon would not agree to a deal this long and apparently restrictive without having something in mind.

I want to hear Brandon use wording similar to: "Iron clad agreement. 400 million buyout in the first 7 years. No other outs." I have a very hard time believing with Mr. Wilsons health what it is that the Bills would enter into an agreement so restrictive that it would severely limit potential buyers when the time comes.

400 million is a lot of money. It would surprise me that the Bills (particularly Smithers) would enter into an arrangement like this unless there were more terms not made public. It will be interesting to see how it all unfolds.

Polar bears are cheap.

Actually the convenient part is thinking that gameday is a significant source of revenue for the Buffalo area. Except for the people running parking lots around the stadium, and the stadium workers themselves no one is impacted significantly. Thinking that this has any impact on a Buffalo wide economic scale does not have any basis in fact, again in my opinion. And again, in a perfect world I agree having all games in Buffalo is the best possible thing.