So what do you think of Terry's new yacht?

[RiotAct]

It sucks!  What a puny little rustbucket.

[HOUSE]

I bet it has some sweat bathrooms, I would love to pee there...

[HansLanda]

1 minute ago, HOUSE said:

I bet it has some sweat bathrooms, I would love to pee there...

 

Those are the new "sauna" potties where you sweat and pee at the same time. only on a yacht 🤩

[rusty shackleford]

Terry in the offseason

 

[WNYFAN1]

1 hour ago, uticaclub said:

The state will make it back and then more.

Ummm if that's the case then why didn't the billionaire owner just fully fund it??

[Augie]

10 minutes ago, HOUSE said:

I bet it has some sweat bathrooms, I would love to pee there...

 

Leave his sinks alone! 

 

He doesn’t have to shop at Walmart to appease me. He’s a billionaire, and I’m not. That’s OK with me. Enjoy what you have earned, sir. I bet he’d sink the stinkin’ boat if he could have Kim back to 100% again. Money isn’t everything. 

[Bullfrog]

Terry might be compensating 

[WNYFAN1]

37 minutes ago, Gregg said:

 

Saving the Sabres? Have you watched them play these past 15 years or so.

LOL the Sabres are possible the worst franchise in the four major sports. Historically bad?

[HOUSE]

Ralph Wilson bought a 66 Chevy Impala convertible and nobody said a word...

[turbo044]

49 minutes ago, SectionC3 said:

I disagree.  It's a terrible look.  I support the stadium monies--as a community, we had to do it.  But this looks awful, and tone deaf. 

So it's a terrible look that a rich man buys a yaht?  You do realize he's going to end up paying 1.2b of the stadium as he covers all overages. This whole argument is ridiculous.

[chris heff]

Let’s say you’re a real estate developer and you want to develop a property. You could pay for all of it, but the government offers to pay for part of it, which is a precedent you did not set. Are you going to accept the money or say no?

 

By the way that is just a yacht, not a mega yacht. I’ve seen mega yachts, the look like cruise ships.

[billsherd]

Jesus.....that's nice yacht.

[SCBills]

Don’t care. 
 

Terry Pegula saved the Bills and gives Beane a blank check to do any, and everything, to put a team out there than can win a Super Bowl. 
 

One of the better owners in the entire NFL yet some in this fanbase want to whine about how rich he is… well, that’s how we still have the Bills in Buffalo. 

[Long Suffering Fan]

Government should spend money on things that companies either would have a difficult time doing or would be dis-incentivized to do.  The Eisenhower Interstate Highway system is a good example of this.  We already had roads, but the system made delivering goods so much easier and more efficient.  You can't really expect companies or farmers to build this road network.  That leaves us with two questions:

 

- Does the stadium help the community in other ways - concerts and the like?

- Does it create or sustain jobs and economic growth for the area that would be lost if the Bills move?

 

When it comes to the Interstate highway system, the answer is obvious.  The burden should be on the State because so many companies are helped by this.

 

When it comes to the NFL, the teams not only benefit the most from stadiums, but are most able financially to fund the infrastructure.  Likewise, different locales recognize how their area would benefit enough that they try to steal teams.  You have a situation where both sides benefit and the government and the NFL are on more equal footing.  It is less clear cut who should pay how much.  I think that is why you see negotiations going on where the government pays for some and the teams pay for some.  

[Maynard]

25 minutes ago, HOUSE said:

I bet it has some sweat bathrooms, I would love to pee there...

It’s only $500k/week to charter.

[chris heff]

8 minutes ago, billsherd said:

Jesus.....that's nice yacht.

It would be nicer with giant charging Buffalo on the hull. Back in the 60s, Pat McGroder used to drive around in his Lincoln with Bills logo on the sides.

[DrDawkinstein]

21 minutes ago, WNYFAN1 said:

Ummm if that's the case then why didn't the billionaire owner just fully fund it??

 

He's already paying more than the state will, and he has to save that cash for signing all those high-guaranteed contracts that keep us a top 3 team. 

 

There's a lot about Billionaires I'm against on principal, but the stadium is just the cost of a small town trying to keep a major league team. And better to spread that cost over the entire state, and have NYC/Albany money pay for Buffalo.

 

If anyone had to self-fund it then it's much smarter for them to do so in a bigger market where they can have a better ROI.

[WNYFAN1]

3 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

He's already paying more than the state will, and he has to save that cash for signing all those high-guaranteed contracts that keep us a top 3 team. 

 

There's a lot about Billionaires I'm against on principal, but the stadium is just the cost of a small town trying to keep a major league team. And better to spread that cost over the entire state, and have NYC/Albany money pay for Buffalo.

 

If anyone had to self-fund it then it's much smarter for them to do so in a bigger market where they can have a better ROI.

Got it, have to stay liquid to be able to afford yachts. 

 

[DrDawkinstein]

2 minutes ago, WNYFAN1 said:

Got it, have to stay liquid to be able to afford yachts. 

 

 

Glad I could help

[Rockinon]

Pegula was rich before he bought the Bills. He's still rich. What's all the outrage about? I know public money was used and the governor pushed hard to use public funds as well. If anything, the outrage should be directed there, not at Pegula. Of course Pegula was going to try and get as much public funding as possible. That's what businesses do. However, the government played a major role in this and they are the ones who ultimately made the decisions. It wouldn't surprise me if it was government influence that ran this story to place blame on someone who didn't actually make the decision to spend so much public money. Hint: It wasn't Terry Pegula.