NFL - Sports Rumors - Buffalo Bills
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Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 12:00 pm EDT
Bills have 78 million reasons to want to play in Toronto
The Buffalo Bills will receive $78 million — more than double their calculated 2006 operating income — to play eight games in Toronto over the next 5 years.
The payment to the Bills was disclosed for the first time in Rogers Communications' 2008 first-quarter report released Tuesday. The Toronto-based company is part of a consortium that negotiated a deal with the Bills to have them play five regular-season and three preseason games, starting this year, at the Rogers Centre.
In becoming the NFL's first team to play annual games outside the United States, the Bills are scheduled to host Pittsburgh in a preseason match at Toronto on Aug. 14, followed by a regular-season game against Miami on Dec. 7.
Source: Associated Press
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Monday, Apr 28, 2008 8:24 am EDT
Bills addressed necessities with draft picks
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Based on their needs, the Buffalo Bills could not have asked for a better scenario on the first day of the draft.
Troy's Leodis McKelvin fell in their laps after teams picking ahead of them in the first round bypassed the top-rated cornerback. Despite a run on wide receivers in the second round, the Bills still were able to get the biggest one available, James Hardy of Indiana. Those two very strong picks, some intriguing prospects and a few long shots round out the Bills' 10-player haul.
"We did what we thought we were going to do," Tom Modrak, the Bills' vice president of college scouting, said during the post-draft news conference. "Some of it broke very well. Some of it we wished it would have broken differently. We like where we are; we like what we did."
Source: Buffalo News
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Friday, Apr 25, 2008 8:17 am EDT
New pro league would be NFL feeder
From the United States Football League to the XFL, alternatives to the NFL have traditionally fizzled not long after the first kickoff. But Marvin Tomlin, the founder and chief executive of the prospective United National Football League, says he can beat the odds with a league designed to complement the NFL, not compete with it according to the New York Times.
"I tell everyone that there's one professional football league, and that's the National Football League," Tomlin said. "But in the same place, the N.F.L. does not have a developmental system."
The league, which plans to play its first game in January 2009, would serve as a "minor league" to the NFL, Tomlin said, offering a second chance to college players who show promise but are not selected by a team in the NFL or the Canadian Football League. The new league's season would run from January to April and would serve as a showcase for N.F.L. recruiters, said Tomlin, an entrepreneur based in New Haven. Games would be played in college stadiums, he said.
Tomlin said that the league had solidified deals with three owners and that he expected eight teams to be in place by the end of next month. He would not disclose which cities have teams. Buying a franchise costs $1.5 million, which includes salaries for 60 players. The league is expected to announce Thursday the selection of the retired NFL player Joe Cribbs as its commissioner. Cribbs was an All-Pro running back for the Buffalo Bills from 1980 through 1983, when he joined the U.S.F.L., which folded in 1985.
Source: New York Times
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Monday, Apr 21, 2008 8:08 am EDT
Buffalo will take best cornerback available
The Buffalo Bills appear headed for the best cornerback available in the April 26 NFL draft according to the Buffalo News. It worked well in 1999 with Antoine Winfield and 2001 with Nate Clements, not so well in 1990 with James Williams. Only one, Williams, was drafted as high as 16th in the first round. This time Buffalo's pick is No. 11. The brain trust better have the most solid of convictions this time.
If cornerback or some other position is the choice, rather than their major needs, they would have to get lucky with a big wide receiver in Round Two and luckier yet with a helpful tight end in Round Three or Four considering the supposed thin outlook with that group.
Don't discount another safe selection if one of the several good offensive tackles remains undrafted when the Bills choose in the second round.
Source: Buffalo News
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