Report: Bon Jovi, MLSE planning bid for NFL team in Toronto

[Gehrig]

http://www.tsn.ca/nfl/story/?id=437446

I still think Goodell's primary goal is getting a team back in Los Angeles. It won't be so easy to pry the Bills out of Western NY either. As bad as that economy is in that part of the country the psychological effects would be huge.

Thoughts?

 

[YankeeFan]

Didn't realize Tim Leiweke had become CEO of MLSE.

 

[Football_Bat]

Goodell's primary goal is NOT getting a team back in Los Angeles. Goodell's primary goal is getting the most value for his league. Keeping Los Angeles out there drives up the price for potential movers. Once L.A. is taken, the golden goose is dead.

London and Toronto remain open for business. Those are the silver and bronze gooses, respectively.

 

[Sea Bass]

Reports say they're halfway there.

http://www.tsn.ca/nfl/story/?id=437446
It won't be so easy to pry the Bills out of Western NY either.

Thoughts?

Once Ralph Wilson dies, it will be extremely easy.

 

[da man]

Goodell's primary goal is NOT getting a team back in Los Angeles. Goodell's primary goal is getting the most value for his league. Keeping Los Angeles out there drives up the price for potential movers. Once L.A. is taken, the golden goose is dead.

London and Toronto remain open for business. Those are the silver and bronze gooses, respectively.

Gooses?

 

[Paynendearse]

Buffalo deserves a hell of a lot more than Goodell has given it.

He seems intent on allowing the NYG-NYJ to swallow up the northern NY market.

Some of the NFL's best fans are in Buffalo.

 

[Pancamo]

Buffalo deserves a hell of a lot more than Goodell has given it.

He seems intent on allowing the NYG-NYJ to swallow up the northern NY market.

Some of the NFL's best fans are in Buffalo.

What is Goodell supposed to do? Give Buffalo a QB?

 

[exmediahack]

I think the final bullet will be a team in Los Angeles and soon. LA served its purpose for 19 years - to be the threat to force city after city to pony up for stadium renovations. Once Minnesota finally gets its stadium, nearly everyone will be taken care of.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Everything you read seems to indicate that Goodell won't go beyond 32 teams. I'll be really curious who winds up in LA. It should be the Jaguars, but it almost certainly won't be the Jaguars.

I wonder if Toronto and Buffalo would split home games initially. It would suck to see the Bills leave.

 

[nmmetsfan]

Is it safe to say football in Buffalo is Livin' on a Prayer?

 

[Paynendearse]

Buffalo deserves a hell of a lot more than Goodell has given it.

He seems intent on allowing the NYG-NYJ to swallow up the northern NY market.

Some of the NFL's best fans are in Buffalo.

What is Goodell supposed to do? Give Buffalo a QB?

Just leave its ass alone and quit ****ing with it with T'rono.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Everything you read seems to indicate that Goodell won't go beyond 32 teams. I'll be really curious who winds up in LA. It should be the Jaguars, but it almost certainly won't be the Jaguars.

I wonder if Toronto and Buffalo would split home games initially. It would suck to see the Bills leave.

I suspect it'll be the Rams in Los Angeles. Where they should be.

 

[Football_Bat]

32 teams, 16 games, 8 divisions of 4, doesn't get any symmetrical than that. Don't suspect King Roger I will screw with the order of the universe anytime soon.

 

[wicked]

If you expand, you have to do one of two things:

1. Expand by eight teams, which would take 40 years to happen and water down the product even further.

2. Expand by two teams, ditch divisions, have two 17-team conferences and do a round-robin in each.

I don't know which one I like least.

 

[Huggy]

Everything you read seems to indicate that Goodell won't go beyond 32 teams. I'll be really curious who winds up in LA. It should be the Jaguars, but it almost certainly won't be the Jaguars.

I wonder if Toronto and Buffalo would split home games initially. It would suck to see the Bills leave.

Toronto would be a huge market for the NFL, several million people living within a couple of hours drive, huge corporate presence and massive interest in the league.

But as the city's lukewarm interest in the massively overpriced and dreadfully sterile Bills in Toronto series shows, NFL fans aren't interested in having a team show up for a week and go home. Give Toronto fans their own team, an outdoor stadium and allow tailgating (I have said it before, drunkest people at any Bills game are usually Canadians) and you'll have a massive success.

 

[Starman]

As long as the teevee markets will bear it, taxpayers can be ****ed into paying for stadiums and prospective owners will pay nine-figure expansion fees, expansion will remain inevitable.

 

[Sea Bass]

Give Toronto fans their own team, an outdoor stadium and allow tailgating (I have said it before, drunkest people at any Bills game are usually Canadians) and you'll have a massive success.

I absolutely believe that given different circumstances than the ones they're currently asked to respond to, the people of Toronto would support an NFL team. But I'm torn on whether they'd require an outdoor stadium. I get that football's an outdoor sport and there's something to be said for the outdoor experience, but Torontonians (to be fair, GTA'ers in general) are largely pussies when compared to prairie folk or the ****ing crazy Frenchmen. I think they'd need a roof over their heads. And I don't mean to cast aspersions - I'd need one too.

 

[Football_Bat]

Goodell's primary goal is NOT getting a team back in Los Angeles. Goodell's primary goal is getting the most value for his league. Keeping Los Angeles out there drives up the price for potential movers. Once L.A. is taken, the golden goose is dead.

London and Toronto remain open for business. Those are the silver and bronze gooses, respectively.

Gooses?

I hear the golden goose is 30% cheaper these days, anyways. ;)