Should the Buffalo Bills move to Hamilton?

[c@taract_soulj@h]

This blew my mind...I don't think buddy has ANY idea how we operate here...

Should the Buffalo Bills move to Hamilton?
One Buffalo developer thinks it needs to happen to save the team
By Cory Ruf and Conrad Collaco CBC News
Posted: Oct 23, 2012 10:04 AM ET

Buffalo developer Rocco Termini floated a radical idea on Buffalo TV Tuesday morning: move the Bills to Hamilton. He thinks it's an idea that could save the team. You can see that interview by clicking the video on this page.

Termini is well known in Buffalo. He's the guy who restored the Hotel Lafayette. If the Lister Block had a twin sister it would be the Hotel Lafayette. It's an effort people in the area seem to appreciate. He's been described, in an interview with the Investigative Post as a developer who is focused on rebuilding downtown Buffalo.

Rest of story: http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2012/10/23/hamilton-buffalo-bills.html

[SteelTown]

Does kinda make sense. Tons and tons of people from Buffalo travel to the IKEA in Burlington so they'll probably do the same if the Bills moved here.

Now I think the stadium needs to be at least 60,000 seats or more. So the new stadium will need another $150 million, good luck with that.

[SteelTown]

BTW Bob Young originally wanted the Bills to play some or all of the games at IWS instead of Rogers Centre.

[FrankieFlowerpot]

Kinda negates this proposal

http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121022/CITYANDREGION/121029746

Today a plan will be presented to the Common Council that proposes a 72,000-seat, retractable-roof stadium, which can double as a convention center, as the centerpiece of a $1.4 billion project on outer harbor land owned by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority.

Greater Buffalo Sports & Entertainment Complex has a preliminary site plan it commissioned by HKS Sports & Entertainment, the Dallas-based architectural and engineering firm that designed Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, and was designated last month to do the same for the Minnesota Vikings. The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, wants in, too, proposing the North American Museum of Sports and Culture as part of making the outer harbor a year-round destination.

http://s17.postimage.org/5wc6dpr9b/3748_10151279299105359_12192871_n.jpg

[matt602]

It would be kind of ironic if they moved here and built an amazing stadium by the harbour that seated 30, 000.

All seriousness though it's just a silly dream. There's no way it would work.

[Berklon]

Definitely a silly idea. Hamilton's not "big league" enough to have an NFL team.
In over 30 years of trying, Hamilton still can't get a hockey team the mickey mouse NHL, how would we get a team in a REAL league like the NFL?

Toronto's really the only suitable city in Ontario... maybe even Canada.

[BCTed]

Definitely a silly idea. Hamilton's not "big league" enough to have an NFL team.
In over 30 years of trying, Hamilton still can't get a hockey team the mickey mouse NHL, how would we get a team in a REAL league like the NFL?

Toronto's really the only suitable city in Ontario... maybe even Canada.

Hamilton would not have to be "big league" for this. The guy's suggestion was that the team still be a Buffalo team playing in a close-to-town outpost, similar to the Giants/Jets, who play in New Jersey, or the Patriots, who play in Foxborough.

Anyway, does not matter. Total non-story that should never have been picked up by the media.