Posted on 12/21/2021 2:32:37 AM PST by Libloather
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) - New York governor Kathy Hochul on Monday expressed confidence she can reach a deal involving hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding to build a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills in time to be included on the state’s budget due in April.
Hochul said she has provided the team two timelines to negotiate an agreement by either the end of the year or extend talks through March. The governor added the Bills will have the final say whether to have the new facility based near their current home in Orchard Park or downtown.
“We’re very intently focused on keeping the Bills here. If Orchard Park is their first choice, their only choice, it’s Orchard Park, and we’ll make it happen,” Hochul said during an appearance in Warsaw, New York.
As for the two timelines, Hochul said, “there is no hard deadline” to get a deal completed by the end of the year should the Bills agree to extend talks.
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That's after everyone is detained and sent off to the covid reeducation camps, of course.
And guess who’s paying for it: taxpayers.
How do they like their taxes going to a social justice stadium with thugs playing in it?
At the rate things are spiralling out of control under the Demofrauds, one wonders if this stadium actually ever gets built.
Likely not just NYS taxpayers.
We don’t have $1.4 bil to burn.
Bet federal taxpayers are gonna get tapped, too.
If the state is going to pi$$ hundreds of millions down the drain for the benefit of multimillionaire owners, why not house the vaxx detainees in the stadium. That way regular Americans, like you and me, get to see the inside of the stadium for free.
Do people here remember when the Bills played at War Memorial Stadium, lol?
Terry Pegula
Terry Pegula, the owner of the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres, is now at #188 on the Forbes 400 list, amassing a net worth of $5.7 billion. Pegula shares the #188 spot with six other billionaires in a tie.Oct 5, 2021.
Let Pegula pay for his stadium.
Hochul can build the sport complex with slave labor from those involuntary held in concentration camps due to a self proclaimed health emergency. The bitch will soon have the power.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/a416
Any football fan who thinks this is the time for a new stadium deserves to lose.
If building and operating a professional sports stadium or arena were a profitable venture, the teams would insist on building it themselves.
Heh, I was a Deadskins fan back in the day when I first began watching football, and I remembered this tidbit on the first game at Rich Stadium which replaced the old War Memorial Stadium:
"...A sold-out crowd was on hand for the inaugural game in the Buffalo Bills’ brand new Rich Stadium, now known as Ralph Wilson Stadium. It didn’t take long for the first score in stadium history to occur. The Washington Redskins won the toss and elected to receive. Bills’ kicker John Leypoldt sent the opening kickoff two yards deep into Washington’s end zone. The Redskins’ Herb Mul-Key fielded the ball and raced 102 yards for a touchdown and 15 seconds into the game, the Redskins had grabbed a 7-0 lead.
Despite a strong effort by Buffalo quarterback Joe Ferguson, who tossed three touchdowns including a 55-yard scoring strike to J.D. Hill, the Bills fell to the Redskins, 37-21. Washington’s Duane Thomas rushed for 70 yards on 17 carries and scored one touchdown..."
See, I was all excited because the Deadskins George Allen picked up the disaffected Duane Thomas who had been Rookie of The Year and near Super Bowl MVP when Dallas won in 1971, but...even though he had been overwhelmingly voted for Super Bowl MVP, the magazine decided to present it to Roger Staubach instead because Thomas had been boycotting the media and simply wouldn't talk to anyone, and they were worried about what he might say!
Anyway, I was such a fan at the time that I remembered the first game at Rich Stadium in Buffalo when it opened (and later changed to Ralph Wilson Stadium) because I was so excited that the Deadskins had picked up Duane Thomas...heh, that trade didn't work out for them in the end, because...Duane Thomas WAS a loose cannon!
Funny...I haven't thought of that in probably forty years or more, but...when I read your post, I remembered the OLD stadium, and the first game in the NEW stadium which was significant for me as a fan!
Louisiana is about to spend $450 million on the 46 year old superdome. I read sometime back that more was owed on this thing than what it cost to build it.
Public funding??? Screw that! Let the “woke” National Felons League pay for it. Haven’t watched a game nor do We have any intention of watching any football anytime soon!
There’s a boondoggle everyone in NY can use.
Why isn’t the NFL paying for these game show studios? They do NOTHING for the economy. If anything, they’re a net drag.
Pittsburgh is *still* paying on Three Rivers Stadium ... and it was destroyed for their new dump(s) that were funded by a public that voted *against* the use of taxpayer dollars to build these frigging dumps (PNC Park ... which is exploited by a scumbag obsessed with receiving corporate welfare ... and Heinz Field ... exploited by a pack of degenerates that got their wealth by gambling).
Hochul expects stadium deal this month, a few issues outstanding
How much taxpayers will be on the hook for is "unclear".
SNORT.
Poloncarz: $1B public funding for Bills stadium ‘not accurate’
He's right. It's higher. And the Bills and the NFL want taxpayers on the hook for ALL of it.
Bills stadium talks: "We're in a good place"
Note to state and federal taxpayers: INCOMING!!!!
Bills stadium negotiations reportedly moving forward
Looks like the plan to have taxpayers pick up over $1 billion of the cost is going swimmingly.
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