Get ready to start hating the Buffalo Bills!

[joeybee12]

New York City businessman and billionaire Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has been contacted by a group looking to purchase the Buffalo Bills.

"People have actually talked to me about the Bills," Trump told WBEN radio in Buffalo, N.Y. "I mean, the group of people called me -- would I be interested in investing, and I'll take a look at it. I mean, I look at a lot of things. I'll take a look at it."

Since the death of owner Ralph Wilson last week, speculation around the Bills' future in Buffalo has increased. Trump said he would like to see the team stay in the city.

"I know so many people in Buffalo, and they have asked me about looking at that and I certainly would look at it, but I would ... if it were me, I'd keep the team in Buffalo," he said. "I think it's something that is really vital to the area. ... It would be catastrophic, in my opinion, if Buffalo lost the Buffalo Bills."

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10709415/donald-trump-approached-buying-buffalo-bills

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1. Only the cold-hearted could hate a team whose fans do this...

Hundreds of Buffalo Bills fans turned out Sunday afternoon to celebrate the life of Ralph C. Wilson Jr., honoring the memory of the team’s only owner in what many said was the best way they could think of: by tailgating.

The overnight snowfall didn’t stop the crowd from gathering in a muddy parking lot owned by Wings Flights of Hope and partying for hours, as if it were a Sunday during the fall.

Decked out in Bills colors and the usual outfits, the fans pulled out grills, sat in lawn chairs, drank beer and mingled – just as they do before a Bills game – as they remembered the man many credit with bringing football to Buffalo and keeping it here.

http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/tailgaters-tap-bills-tradition-to-honor-wilson-20140330

An Irish wake for Ralph Wilson by the same fans who cheered a dejected Scott Norwood a few days after "wide right."

[joeybee12]

2. But it's Donald Trump!

Donald Trump!

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3. It's not like he'd be the only loathsome NFL owner

He'd probably be the most loathsome, though.

[joeybee12]

4. Yeah, there are awful, repulsive, and the repulsively awful...

And Trump fits in that last category.

[TZ]

6. Anti vaxxer birther idiot

Donald Trump. They would be my most hated franchise over the Yankees and Cowboys if this happens

[joeybee12]

7. Definitely over the Cowpies...

Tough one about the Stankmes, though.

[Auggie]

5. I'd be surprised … Buffalo football dosen't seem his style

[joeybee12]

8. Odds are no one approached him...

He just saw a way to open his mouth and get himself on the news again.

[Auggie]

9. My first thought too

[RockaFowler]

10. That's the way Trump works

He has no interest in the Bills at all

Just another stupid way to get his name in the news

Media Whore

[joeybee12]

13. He's evil, but an evil genius with the media...

He's a whore working the whore media!

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19. No, Buffalonians are too down-to-earth

My sense is that they wouldn't take to Trump, although battling for blue collar underdogs might actually change Trump's perspective.

[bluedigger]

11. I'd rather hate 'em than feel sorry for them.

It would be less embarrassing when they beat the Pats once every three years, too.

[joeybee12]

15. Almost did this year...

Does that count?

[bluedigger]

16. They can claim it as a moral victory, if it will make them feel better about themselves.

[erpowers]

12. Does He Even Have the Money

Yes, Donald Trump claims to be a billionaire, but myself and many others question the truth of his statements. I realize he says he would be part of a group and that would allow him to put in less money, but I still wonder if he has enough cash on hand to be a part of the group.

[joeybee12]

14. Probably not...this is just another way he's trying

to get people to think that he does...the bum.

[bluedigger]

17. I'm sure he could be a minority owner at least.

Forbes has the Bills at $830 million as of 2013. #30 in the NFL, ahead of Jacksonville and Oakland. And just behind St Louis. So a couple hundred million would go a long ways towards ownership of the team. Donald has that kind of money to throw around if he wants, maybe more.

http://www.forbes.com/nfl-valuations/list/

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18. There are a couple of WNY billionaires who are interested in the Bills

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is from WNY and hopefully he'll help. But it may all come down to money, and the Bills would be worth much more to NFL owners in L.A.

Jim Kelly had been putting together a consortium to buy the Bills but his tough battle against cancer probably needs all his energy now.

For a while now I've had a feeling that I will not live to see the Bills win a Super Bowl. I'm slowly becoming certain of it, which is kind of heartbreaking after all these years.

[bluedigger]

20. You never know.

The AFC East should open up post Brady, and a new era will start in Buffalo, assuming they stay put. Once you make the playoffs all things are possible. Hang on for another five years or so.