Ok. That’s it. I’ve had enough.
Call me a “fair weather fan” or whatever makes you hardcore Bills’ fans feel better but I have seen enough of the Buffalo Bills to last me a life time. You all know that when Ralph Wilson passes on that the Bills are going to be sold to the highest bidder. The highest bidder will dictate that if Buffalo wants to keep the Bills we will have to shell out taxpayer dollars to build a new stadium. At that point it will be time to show the Bills, and the NFL, the door.
The Buffalo Bills have been the model mediocrity for so long in the NFL that I have completely forgotten what it feels like to have a team that the rest of the league respects. The days of Jim Kelly and four consecutive Super Bowls are long gone and, being realistic, they are not coming back. Each chance the team has had to better itself it hasn’t even bothered to step up. Randy Moss was available and desperately wanted out of Oakland. Did we even make a play for him? Brett Favre wanted to play anywhere but we all knew it wasn’t going to be Buffalo. Edgerin James was escorted out of Indianapolis a few years ago and wound up with Arizona. Granted the Bills may have not been a prime choice for any of those players but I am pretty sure that really doesn’t matter. We were content with Trent Edwards at QB, Lee Evans at WR, and Marshawn Lynch at RB. Nothing against those guys but give me Randy Moss over Lee Evans any day of the week.
The Bills under Ralph Wilson have never been afraid to spend money. Anyone care to guess how much we are paying our starting offensive line? Combined it is well over $20 million a year. It is the pathetic decisions made by the player personnel people over the years that are disturbing. We haven’t had a good football coach since Marv Levy and the parade of incompetent coordinators started when Levy left and has not stopped.
Buffalo used to be a feared power in the AFC and now we are back to being the butt of everyone’s jokes. Do we really want to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into this organization when there are businesses in Western New York that hire hundreds of people that could use the money more? Why the hell should we build the Bills a stadium? Why the hell does any municipality have to build any NFL team a new stadium? With local, state, and the federal governments scrambling to prop up the US economy with tax payer dollars does it even make sense to play the NFL “status” game and build a state-of-the-art stadium for nearly a billion dollars for a business that could leave a few years later anyways?
When the Sabres got their new home they put up a decent chunk of the money themselves. The rest of the money was low interest loans secured for the team by Erie County in exchange for the promise that the team would not leave for at least 30 years. No hundreds of millions of free tax payer dollars and no holding the community over a barrel.
If what the NFL is doing doesn’t make everyone sick then it should. As far as I am concerned the Bills, and the NFL, can make sure the door doesn’t smack them on the way out of Buffalo.
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