David G. Riess was thrown for a loss after he said:
 DGR>      ...it's not finalized at either the state or county level yet.
It's going to happen. Cleveland and Houston were derailed by the politicians; 
Buffalo has taken care of that.
 DGR> Orchard Park citizen's group has sprung up protesting the hike in taxes
A mere fleshwound. Outside of environmentalists, no citizen's group has ever 
successfully blocked a measure like this (They've forced votes or made votes 
closer, however, they've never gotten them blocked). Politicians have a much 
better chance of shutting down the project, however, with the potentially 
devasting effects of such a move, don't be surprised if these groups don't 
find a politically powerful ally (Don't be surprised, either, if a couple of 
the leaders end up floating on your side of the lake).
 DGR>      Don't feel too bad, we do receive the Buffalo stations in our
 DGR> area...
Which means what? It certainly doesn't mean that you are on top of the pulse 
of the politicians, who ARE the ones who have driven teams away. In every 
instance (look them up), moves were based on owners not getting what they 
wanted out of the stadium officials and the city/state politicians. Buffalo 
bent over backwards and more importantly, Toronto is incapable of giving 
Ralph Wilson the kind of revenue that he wants (I hear Canadians moaning 
about paying $15-$20 CDN for CFL games. Imagine their displeasure of having 
to regularly paying $50+ CDN and nearly double for their luxury boxes). 
There's nearly a 30,000 difference in seating in Toronto and while the 
Skydome has more luxury boxes, Wilson makes about the same from his boxes in 
Buffalo and a move to Toronto would mean either losing $11 mil per year in 
attendance revenue or increasing prices across the board. If Toronto is being 
mentioned publicly be any of the Bills' officials then they are being used as 
a pawn like Tampa was used by baseball teams for years.
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