Buffalo is not a large enough market to support an NFL team and there are many larger markets in the Canada, US and UK that would be more profitable for the team and the NFL.
so you really think they will move from Buffalo? I know the NFL has been concerned about keeing teams where they are, after so many teams moved to other cities in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
But, if the NFL wants to tap new markets such as Toronto or London, the Bills are a prime franchise to want to move.
But Green Bay is?
I've never understood that argument. On game day, everyone in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, and Binghamton all watch the Bills and the 75,000 seat stadium is full.
If all of upstate is watching or attending, how can the market be said to be too small? I understand that's the conventional wisdom, but why is it considered wisdom?
The fact is that any team whose owner dies is liable to be bought by someone in another city if there are none in the hometown. You can't bequeath the team to family members; the inheritance taxes make it uneconomic.
Nonetheless, Erie County [Buffalo] and New York State will now spend great gobs of tax money to keep the team here. Circuses, you know.
I find the idea of a team in the UK to be idiotic. They don’t like the sport and the travel would be brutal.