When I sat in my car in my parking lot at work listening intently on radio to the breaking news spilling all over the airwaves that it has been confirmed that Terry Pegula had entered into an agreement with the trust of Ralph Wilson estate to purchase the Buffalo Bills. Not a rumor not hopeful but confirmed. Finally a ray of sunshine had beared down on the Bills franchise. Hope of better days to come was in the air.
I can not explain that feeling. It only comes around a few times in a persons life.
The whirlwind that followed with Pegulaville and first press conference was almost as good at times especially when Terry announced:
"My name is Terry Pegula and the Pegulas just bought a football team. Actually, that’s not totally correct. (Pauses) I knew that this was going to happen. We all just bought a team. Our team: the Buffalo Bills. The name of our team will not change. It will stay the Buffalo Bills. I was humbled by you, all the fans, and the outpouring of emotion that I saw when our name was announced as the winner of the bid. I could not believe the pent-up fear of losing the team that was released by you, the fans. I just happened to be in Traverse City, Michigan watching the young Sabres play in that tournament up there. I was driving home, and I don’t want to say I didn’t have anything to do, but I put the radio on and WGR was on and I could not believe what I heard from fans. The one guy we’ve talked about is JR from the Dominican Republic. We want to meet him because I think he was the first caller and he was awesome.
The raw emotion was amazing. Probably will never be duplicated until Bills win a Super Bowl.