This is interesting. Petro had a guy on his show last week (before the vote) that was talking about the possiblity of a team moving to LA. Of course, Petro was throwing the Chiefs out there, as well as the Saints, Vikings, and Chargers. This guy at the end gives his potential dark horse team for an LA move - the Buffalo Bills. Petro kind of scoffed at the notion, then the guy tells him he had been working within the organization for the last X number of years. It would appear that everything has been set in motion for a Bills move, unless Pataki can come up with a solution.

I think it would be a crime to take the Bills away from Buffalo. An original AFL member going cross country to LA? Nonsense.

Tradition and a dollar will buy you a cup of coffee (Man, this saying used be a dime for coffee, talk about losing tradition!).

While I would love to see the Bills stay where they have been for 46 years, this is a business. If the owner can not make a profit or be able to keep up with their competition they must make changes. I used to enjoy shopping at Montgomery Wards and Woolworth's but they don't exist any more. This is sad but a fact of life in our capitalistic world. This is also a part of the reality of todays world that I think the old guard owners have trouble with. They are still used to $.25 a gallon gas. That is not the reality their teams operate in any more. Do I think it sucks and wish things were easier? Of course. But I am realistic enough to realize this is about economics, not tradition.

That would be bad if they ended up in Toronto...
are they even looking for NFL team, do Canucks care much about American Football????

Given the exchange rate they would probably run into some of the same problems baseball and hockey have had. Noone wants to play up there because although they earn the "same amount" it is really what, 20% less?

"And as Wilson explained, new ownership would not necessarily change the Bills fortunes. Under one proposal in the new NFL collective bargaining agreement, new owners would not be able to share in the league’s robust pot of shared revenue; money that currently sustains the Bills franchise."

If that's true that means when Lamar Hunt dies the Chiefs will be shit out of luck when it comes to revenue sharing money.

It's easy for fans of other teams to make light of it when it's not their team but this shit sucks especially considering the poison pill, no revenue sharing to new owners. It basically ensures anyone who sells their team wont be able to stay in small markets and they'll end up in large markets and in future cba meetings revenue sharing will cease to exist.

The new guard are simply afraid of uncaped years thats all it is. Just wait a few years when the cap keeps expanding and smaller market teams are less viable because it's gonna happen.

That would certainly force a realignment, as they would have to be in the AFC West. I'm sure I'm not the only one to see the resulting shift affecting the Chiefs. Who else would logically move out of the AFCW?

They may end up just giving L.A. an expansion team, there are other markets that want teams too if they want to keep the even number of teams.

Ralph Wilsons whole thing isn't about right this minute the Bills are turning similiar profits to the Chiefs at the moment. He wants to keep them viable in that market after he's gone.

Not for another 25 years! :toast:

What he said.

They are locked up, just follow thru on the construction and make
Arrowhead nice and modern...

It will continue to be the best place for football in the America.

Yeah pretty much any existing AFC franchise moving to LA would affect the Chiefs because the Chiefs are the most logical team from a geographical perspective to move out of the AFC West.

If the Bills end up moving to LA I could see a situation where they move to the AFC West, the Colts are moved back to the AFC East (the NFL would love to have a Patriots-Colts match-up twice a year), and the Chiefs move to the AFC South.

my guess would be the LA Bills to the AFCW
Chiefs to the AFCN?
Ravens to AFCE
Dolphins to AFCS

that would make the most geographical sense

Jags get shipped to the AFC East, Chiefs to the AFC South.

that's two people that have said Chiefs to the South??? Am i missing something?

What cities are closer to KC? Nashville, Indianapolis or Cleveland, Pittsburgh?

Titans, Colts, Texans would be a good fit for the Chiefs.

Your math is all ****ed up.