Bills losing another home game to Toronto?

by Steve

Didn't wanna have to do it, but I do. I gotta write about another depressing Bills moving post cause there just aint nothin' else to talk about. There is a "story" floating around about the Bills moving ANOTHER regular season home game to Toronto as early as the 2010 season. To me it sounds like a bunch of bullshit and a ploy by ex-Buffalo News writer Tim Graham to ruffle feathers but who really knows..

Within a week of Terrell Owens proclaiming he was coming to play for "North America's team," a survey conducted on behalf of Bills in Toronto organizers suggests the intention to move two regular-season Bills games to the Rogers Centre, starting as early as next year.

That would leave Bills fans with only six regular-season dates in Ralph Wilson Stadium each year.

The survey was e-mailed Friday to fans who purchased tickets to last year's game. The survey includes the following passage, which hasn't been edited:

Rogers has been listening to its Bills Fans and may be able to negotiate a new deal which will bring an additional Bills regular-season game to Toronto in each of 2010, 2011, and 2012! This now means that a quarter of the Bills home games could be played in Toronto. This would allow us to issue a new 3-Game Ticket Package for the 2010 games in Toronto. This includes tickets to 2 regular season games and 1 pre-season game, at a lower price per game than previously, for most seats. The average price per game for a variety of seating options is shown below. The total ticket prices for the 3-game pack is also shown.

Below the passage is a Rogers Centre seating chart and price options for three-game packages. The Bills' deal currently involves only two games per year, a preseason exhibition and a regular-season game.

The Bills did not respond to a request for comment.

This is just too depressing to even bitch about at this point. The sad fact is these stories will never go away, at least for the foreseeable future (aka new owner buying the team). It is just a sad fact Bills fans will have to live with. Oh god, that is as bad a thought as the Bills retaining Jauron as their coach.

I'm anticipating some sort of retraction or statement from Russ Brandon and co. denouncing the "survey". WTF I can't believe I am even wasting time talking about this..

The draft is in less than 5 weeks, here's hoping they don't screw it up.

Oh and profootball weekly is saying Scheffler is definitely on the trading block. I'd say a 3rd or conditional 4th? Can't be worse than taking a flying on one early day 2..