RIP Ralph Wilson

[MileHigh]

Schefter just tweeted it out.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Wow. Bad week for the Bills.

RIP.

I believe that leaves Barron Hilton of the Chargers as the last original AFL owner still living, and Hilton hasn't owned the team since 1966. (He is Paris Hilton's grandfather, however).

 

[Mizzougrad96]

RIP...

That would be awful if he and Kelly went in the same week...

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

Now it really gets interesting for the team.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Now it really gets interesting for the team.

Rob Ford just called Goodell.

 

[Liut]

RIP...

That would be awful if he and Kelly went in the same week...

It would but is Kelly that bad off right now? Not trying to be a jerk at all, just wondering.

As it is, RIP Mr. Wilson.

 

[Liut]

Now it really gets interesting for the team.

You right about that. Aren't the heirs authorized to sell? Don't know that for fact, but thought I'd read it somewhere in the not-so-distant past.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

My understanding has been that his inheritors have never wanted to keep the franchise.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

RIP...

That would be awful if he and Kelly went in the same week...

It would but is Kelly that bad off right now? Not trying to be a jerk at all, just wondering.

As it is, RIP Mr. Wilson.

I get the sense that he is, but I honestly don't know... It often seems that we hear about cancer coming back and stuff like that just before the end. Hopefully that's not the case here...

 

[poindexter]

Now it really gets interesting for the team.

Rob Ford just called Goodell.

Mark Ridley Thomas of the LA Board of Supervisors is dusting off his LA Coliseum presentation as we speak.

 

[Songbird]

There aren't any buffalos in L.A. Probably weren't any rams, either.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I've come to the conclusion that the Raiders are going to wind up in LA by default.

I don't know how much things have changed in recent years with the Bills, but there were always rumors about them splitting home games between Toronto and Buffalo, but that it wouldn't happen while Wilson was still alive.

There should be some interesting tributes for tomorrow since the owner's meetings are going on right now and the bulk of them are in Orlando.

 

[poindexter]

I've come to the conclusion that the Raiders are going to wind up in LA by default.

I don't know how much things have changed in recent years with the Bills, but there were always rumors about them splitting home games between Toronto and Buffalo, but that it wouldn't happen while Wilson was still alive.

There should be some interesting tributes for tomorrow since the owner's meetings are going on right now and the bulk of them are in Orlando.

It just came out last week that Buffalo was ending the Toronto visits.

 

[HanSenSE]

I've come to the conclusion that the Raiders are going to wind up in LA by default.

I don't know how much things have changed in recent years with the Bills, but there were always rumors about them splitting home games between Toronto and Buffalo, but that it wouldn't happen while Wilson was still alive.

There should be some interesting tributes for tomorrow since the owner's meetings are going on right now and the bulk of them are in Orlando.

Not to veer too far off topic, but this was one of the best reads I've seen on the Raiders situation. Oakland must choose between Raiders or A's. And to Davis, Levi's Stadium is not an option.

Oh, and RIP Ralph Wilson ...

http://www.latimes.com/sports/football/nfl/la-sp-nfl-raiders-la-20140325,0,34534.story#axzz2x0K4AEZS

 

[TigerVols]

Schefter just tweeted it out.

I'm not going to believe it until the NYP reports it.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

First, RIP

Second, wasn't there a recent deal to renovate the stadium in Buffalo,or am I thinking of something else?

 

[micropolitan guy]

Yes, the Bills and Erie County just agreed to a new lease.

A $50K investment turned into an $800+-million business. I'd say Ralph's family did pretty well by WNY.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Wealth, honor and fame, long life, but he never won a Super Bowl. Sports can be cruel. RIP.

PS: If Wilson wanted the Bills to stay in Buffalo, I have to assume his will has some arrangement through which that is assured.

 

[Double J]

There aren't any buffalos in L.A. Probably weren't any rams, either.

Or lakes.

 

[HanSenSE]

Wealth, honor and fame, long life, but he never won a Super Bowl. Sports can be cruel. RIP.

PS: If Wilson wanted the Bills to stay in Buffalo, I have to assume his will has some arrangement through which that is assured.

Strange story in Buffalo News: Team will be placed in trust for time being (which seems standard), then sold. He did not leave it to anyone in his family (inheritance tax issue?).

http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/bills-nfl/what8217s-next-for-the-bills-for-now-the-team-will-be-controlled-by-a-trust-20140325