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Speaker 1: Happy Monday. We are here on One Bill's Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Maddie Glab

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Speaker 1: filling in for Chris A. Brown here with Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: to kick off the week. All be in all week.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown is on a much deserved vacation. It's that

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Speaker 1: the window before training camp where we all get to

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Speaker 1: safer now to do some traveling. So we're excited he's

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Speaker 1: you had a Father's Day weekend? Yeah, what did you do? Also?

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Speaker 1: Happy belated fathers? Did all the all the fathers out

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Speaker 1: there listening to the radio this afternoon. Nice nice Father's

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Speaker 1: So yeah, that was a nice weekend, really nice. A

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Speaker 1: Sounds like an epic weekend, family fund Father's Day weekend. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: the concourses, the lighting, the concession stand? Are we getting

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Speaker 1: complaints from one concession stand more than other concession stands?

427
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,360
Speaker 1: Are that you know? Are we having incidents at one

428
00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:08,439
Speaker 1: spot in the stadium every weekend? People are saying they

429
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,600
Speaker 1: can't hear the announcer, one little part of the concourse.

430
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,240
Speaker 1: They're having trouble here in it. All these little details,

431
00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 1: we got people that address that and it's important. Like

432
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:22,200
Speaker 1: Tiffany anticsidant, I want to see replaced from out of town,

433
00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:24,399
Speaker 1: and somebody else is saying, I don't want to hear

434
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:25,840
Speaker 1: what I don't want the Jets are doing. I want

435
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:27,480
Speaker 1: to see how you know, I want to see what

436
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 1: you know? They got other stuff they want to see, right,

437
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:36,280
Speaker 1: So it's subjective all of this is, but man, it's

438
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,959
Speaker 1: a real thing. It's a real thing people. There are

439
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,920
Speaker 1: certain things people really look for and you got to

440
00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:43,560
Speaker 1: find though that core thing, like highlights from out of town,

441
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:48,760
Speaker 1: scores from out of town, and nowadays fantasy numbers. Right,

442
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 1: people want to know what fantasy players are doing. So

443
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:53,959
Speaker 1: you need like it's almost like you want to have

444
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 1: one of those uh, Like like our screen here, we

445
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,600
Speaker 1: got a sidebar and a bottom bar and it's like

446
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:03,159
Speaker 1: a blue Umberg stock market thing. We got all this

447
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,680
Speaker 1: information on the screen. Some people want to keep track

448
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 1: about the games of other players while they're watching their team,

449
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:11,919
Speaker 1: and others are like, just you know, give me a replay.

450
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:13,359
Speaker 1: I want to see the I want to see the

451
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,880
Speaker 1: replay of that score, not score, fumble of not fumble,

452
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:21,200
Speaker 1: completion and completion. You got to do all that. Yeah,

453
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:22,720
Speaker 1: there are so many things you can add to the

454
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,919
Speaker 1: game by experience, the fan experience. All this stuff is

455
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,160
Speaker 1: being planned about, being being talked about right now by

456
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 1: our staff. I mean to plan a season, to plan

457
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 1: the actual in stadium experience. Once that season ends, you're

458
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,919
Speaker 1: basically already planning for next season. It's it's how do

459
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 1: you make this season better? How do you make this

460
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,199
Speaker 1: season cooler for the fan. It's not like the Bills

461
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,160
Speaker 1: have a problem of filling the stadium to begin with,

462
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: because this team is so good and because the fan

463
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,280
Speaker 1: base is so passionate and then they love this team.

464
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 1: But there's different teams where that's what they're dealing with.

465
00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: How do we make this an experience to where we

466
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,880
Speaker 1: can get people to pay for tickets instead of sit

467
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: at home where they have a couch and a fridge

468
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,679
Speaker 1: and cabinets full of food. That's right, that's right. You

469
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: gotta you're paying a lot of money to come in

470
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 1: and sit here, parking food and for the seat, and

471
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 1: you gotta feel like it's worth it. You know, whether

472
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:26,120
Speaker 1: your team wins or loses is one thing, but don't

473
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 1: let me suffer in addition to you know, I mean

474
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,679
Speaker 1: unless I sign up for it, which you kind of

475
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 1: do when you know what the stadium is going to be.

476
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 1: So it's true, I'm you really gotta the team. The

477
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,399
Speaker 1: club really makes a huge effort to make it a

478
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Speaker 1: great experience despite or because of whatever happens on the field.

479
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 1: And so it's it's a big job and they take

480
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Speaker 1: it very seriously and they put a lot of effort

481
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Speaker 1: into those surveys about what people are looking for, what's

482
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Speaker 1: really important, and then you know they cross reference all

483
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 1: of the those opinions. I'm really excited to see what

484
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: happens because if if, because I'm excited to see what

485
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 1: they got from the people, because I know they're trying

486
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,440
Speaker 1: and give it to them. If everybody want an open

487
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 1: air stadium, you know, that's what they asked for, and

488
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 1: I think it'd be interesting to know what that is.

489
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 1: And if if everybody wants a retractable roof, it'll be

490
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 1: interesting to see if they can give that to them,

491
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 1: you know, or don't. Whatever is it gonna be nine

492
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,879
Speaker 1: Is it gonna be nine million seats in it? Or

493
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 1: is it gonna be like nine thousand? You know what

494
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:29,359
Speaker 1: I mean? What's it gonna be a big one? Is

495
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 1: gonna be a little? One's gonna be medium? What's it

496
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 1: gonna look like? I can't wait one? And all these

497
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,199
Speaker 1: newer stadiums are just so cool to go to and

498
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: get to experience and travel to and across even different sports.

499
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been in Jerry World, I've been in

500
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 1: the Mercedes Benz Dome there. It's just an experience to

501
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: get to walk around to get to see all the things,

502
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 1: to get to hear about how it was built, kind

503
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 1: of the little parts of it that people might not know,

504
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: Like I think in Jerry World, Jerry has an elevator

505
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 1: that takes him from his suite down to field level

506
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: if he wants to go down to the field level.

507
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:07,919
Speaker 1: They really try to work on the margarita's there and

508
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: get them really good. And so I think all the

509
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 1: little intricacies of that are so cool and different and

510
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:18,120
Speaker 1: interesting to me as a sports fan. And if Buffalo

511
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 1: is going to be soon doing this, is it going

512
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: to kind of match some of these newer age stadiums.

513
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 1: Is it going to kind of have that old school

514
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,920
Speaker 1: feel to it still? Is it going to keep you know,

515
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 1: the identity of what high Mark is right now or

516
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,920
Speaker 1: are you just gonna kind of you gotta keep so

517
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: on the old school feel. I feel like you can't

518
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,160
Speaker 1: go completely new age. I think so too. And here's

519
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 1: the thing to think about this. Dallas has got at

520
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 1: and t Jerry World down there. It's a ninety thousand square,

521
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: ninety thousand seat stadium and it's so big inside, you know,

522
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,919
Speaker 1: big TV that goes from the twenty yard line to

523
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 1: the twenty yard line down the side, you know, parallel

524
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,880
Speaker 1: to the sidelines. The rams have one to circle right.

525
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: It's so the place is so big you couldn't wrap

526
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: your mind around how big it is being indoors. I mean,

527
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 1: you stand. I've been on the sidelines for games like you.

528
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: I mean it, you can't even get your mind around

529
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: how big it is. And the seats come right up

530
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: to the field, almost to the field, but they're below

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00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: field level. And they have a suite down in there

532
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: that's like leather couches, flat screens, buffets, catered, a private bathroom.

533
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: All of the stuff is like below field. So when

534
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,919
Speaker 1: they stand up in front of it, they're leaning on

535
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 1: a railing that's chest high and they're waist high to

536
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,199
Speaker 1: the field. Can't see anything. You can't see an you

537
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,439
Speaker 1: can't see anything. You're gonna watch it on TV anyway,

538
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: but you can if they run into your corner of

539
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: the end zone. The guy runs right at yeah, I

540
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: mean he's almost in your lap. So there's that kind

541
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: of little experience. But my point about this whole thing

542
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 1: was thinking about that that's Dallas, but you go to

543
00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: Indianapolis and there's just built like an old barn, big

544
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 1: brick barn, that where people used to play basketball in

545
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 1: Indiana kind of thing, and it has the sliding roof

546
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 1: that comes off and you can open it up. It's

547
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:15,880
Speaker 1: also an enormous facility. I mean that State Farm Arena

548
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 1: down in Indianapolis, I think that's what it's called, or

549
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 1: Farmers I don't know whatever. The Indianapolis Football Dome. It

550
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:30,919
Speaker 1: dominates the entire downtown skyline. Lucas Oil, that's exactly right.

551
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: Sorry about that State Farm and Farmers Insurance Lucas Oil

552
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: Stadium is it dominates the entire I mean it looks

553
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: like a little kid's a little tabletop city with a

554
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: big red brick stuck in the middle. I mean, it

555
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: dominates it. So, but it is kind of a personality thing.

556
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: It's got that barn kind of shape and it so

557
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: that's their style. What's Buffalo? What was this gonna look like?

558
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: Are we gonna have our own unique looking thing? Because

559
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: you remember back in the Daysburg, Cincinnati, and Philly all

560
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: had identical stadiums. Veteran Stadium, Riverfront Stadium, and Three Rivers

561
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: Stadium were virtually identical identical. Now every stadium is a

562
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 1: little different, so I would for me, for civic pride.

563
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: I want that stadium to look unique. I want when

564
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: people say, oh, yeah that I know where that is,

565
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, without any context or whatever

566
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: picture that stadiums say that, oh yeah, that's Buffalo, like

567
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: the Ram's new facility, you know. And Buffalo is not

568
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,959
Speaker 1: La Buffalo's not Ana, Buffalo is not Dallas, and so

569
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: you have to take the city and put it in

570
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: the stadium. I am a diehard Chicago Cubs fan, and

571
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: if they decided to revamp Wrigley and make it this

572
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: like swanky new thing, I would be beyond pissed. I'd

573
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 1: be calling numbers to try and get them to not

574
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: do that. You're congressman. I feel like a lot of

575
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: Bill's mafia probably feels the same way. If you're going

576
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: to do a new stadium, you got to keep it

577
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: some of the same elements. You got to keep that

578
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 1: identity of what the fan base represents, of what the

579
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 1: city represents. You have to build that into the new

580
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 1: stadium and not make it something that it's not supposed

581
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 1: to be. It's yeah, you know, like Hi, Mark, I mean,

582
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: it's Bills, It's Bill Stadium. It's Buffalo Stadium. It's it

583
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 1: is a Buffalo Bills play in that building, and you

584
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 1: know it's for generations now, since nineteen seventy two or

585
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 1: something like that, they've played in that building. It's so

586
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: people have a it's coming up on what that's coming

587
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: up on fifty years, isn't it right? So you've got

588
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: an attachment, there's tradition. Yeah, it's it's got a personality.

589
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 1: You know, it's part of your kind of heritage. People

590
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: have gone to games over the decades and sat in

591
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,479
Speaker 1: every part of that stadium you can imagine, you know,

592
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 1: from the suites all the way out to the the

593
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: upper decks. So whatever the new stadium looks like, you

594
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: kind of hope it has you know, I don't know

595
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 1: what it would look like. A local theme, but yeah,

596
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: that's you don't you know, you don't want it to

597
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: look like you know, Mile High Stadium and Soldier Field

598
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: in Chicago and somebody else. You know, So what it

599
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: looks like is going to be important, I think as well.

600
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: Whether it's open air or whether it's domed or whatever,

601
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna it's gonna quickly become the identity of the team,

602
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: and in many ways, the identity of the city. Well,

603
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quick break here, but if you've

604
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: got an opinion on what a new Bills stadium should

605
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: look like, if they choose to do so, give us

606
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: a call at eight oh three, five fifty. We've got

607
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 1: some callers on the line right now. We're going to

608
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: take them when we come back When Bills Live presented

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00:31:53,280 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health on Buffalo Bill's Radium. We are

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00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: back here on one Bills Live Mattie Gladfield and for

611
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: Chris Brown with Steve Tasker. We are talking about the

612
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: report that came out right before the weekend saying that

613
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills could be in the process of planning

614
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: a new open air stadium in Orchard Park, New York.

615
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: So with that, we were talking about, all right, if

616
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 1: there was going to be a new stadium, what would

617
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 1: we want it to look like, open air, retractable dome.

618
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 1: They're going to do it across the street. They're going

619
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: to do it right next to where high Mark is

620
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: right now, and with that, we've got some callers waiting

621
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: on the line, So we are going to take some

622
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: calls to hear what they have to say, because I'm sure.

623
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: This is something that a lot of fans have opinions on,

624
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: which I love because this is a special place to

625
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: a lot of Bills Mafia. So Kevin from Hamburg, you

626
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: are on the line with us. Hello Kevin, what do

627
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: you think about a new open air stadium? Thanks for

628
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: taking my call. Um. I think it don't had to

629
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: be swanky like those cities like in Dallas, because those

630
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: places that are way too schwanky compared to Buffalo. But

631
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: if it was nice like the Superdome in New Orleans

632
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: that was a nice stadium, even the way they fixed

633
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 1: it up Africatina bombed it, it would have been a

634
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: nice place to play and to do that. I would

635
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: have loved to have grown up down there and playing

636
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: watching their games in their stadium. It don't had to

637
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: be swanky and stuff like that. Kevin, how many people

638
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: you think it should see? Um? I don't know how

639
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: much does the Superdome seat? That'd be cool, Yeah, but

640
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: it don't have to is not swanky, but it don't

641
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: had to be swinky like like like Mandy said, I

642
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: agree with her. We're not Dallas, we're not Atlanta, We're

643
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:58,239
Speaker 1: not all those swanky cities. Okay, well, thanks Kevin. I

644
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: like that, Kevin, thanks for calling, and we sit and

645
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this though, I think I've heard this

646
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: a lot of paper places on our on our Twitter

647
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: feed where people would like, um, I know that in

648
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: the in the uh in the end zones and all that,

649
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: there's some of those where they have kind of seatbacks,

650
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,439
Speaker 1: but the bench the seats are benches, you know, where

651
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 1: you can slide down that kind of thing. Uh that

652
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: you know, I would I think most people would expect

653
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: their own seat in a new stadium, you know what

654
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: I mean, even if you know, like theaters or whatever,

655
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: instead of having a bench to sit on like the

656
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: old time high school. So yeah, yeah, your own seats

657
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 1: would be nice. I don't. It depends on what you

658
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 1: call swanky too, I mean, yeah, what's your level of swings?

659
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: That mean like a manually operated scoreboard where a guy

660
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 1: hangs the numbers on it. Hey, that's what they don't

661
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: don't tell me. It has its charm. It does have

662
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 1: its charm. I don't want it to change. Yeah, I

663
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: mean I I went to school in Chicago and we

664
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: used to snile down, sneak down to Rigley and there's

665
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 1: only three blocks from the l You're right, so we'd

666
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: skidaddle down there. And now a lot of a lot

667
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 1: of ballparks are trying to do what wrigglely does in

668
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: terms of wriggle Wrigglelyville. Not necessarily the stadium, but a

669
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: lot of people want to build a round their stadiums um.

670
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: So that's a good idea. The Cardinals have done it,

671
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: have put some bars in right around their stadium. I

672
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: know other teams think about Ford Field in Detroit where

673
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 1: they've got that big warehouse. Taking outside of there's you know,

674
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 1: there's a lot of space to be Is that something

675
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: that is a part of this new stadium? Patriot Place

676
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: up in Foxboro, they've got an entire like, got like

677
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: a shopping and restaurant, hotel, stuff, stuff that's super walkable

678
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: right around the stadium. So that's where you stay. There's hotels,

679
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 1: there's bars, there's restaurants, there's things to do. So that's

680
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: your one stop shop when you fly entire weekend and

681
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: not just come in for the game. Well, we've got

682
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: some more callers on the phone just in from Tampa.

683
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: You're on the line with us. What do you think

684
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: about a new Bills Stadium. How would you want it

685
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: to look? Hey Maddie, Hey Chris. I'm not really too

686
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 1: worried about the aesthetics of it. I just think one

687
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 1: angle that we're not really looking at here is I mean,

688
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 1: it gets a new stadium and at football played in

689
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 1: it maybe five months out of the year. So I

690
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 1: think it's probably inevitable that if they're going to be

691
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: building a new stadium, it's probably going to be a

692
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: retractable dome. Whether it's the taxpayers or the Pagoula's footing

693
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 1: the bill for it. Um. I just think that it

694
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,919
Speaker 1: opens up possibilities to have other events, concerts and things

695
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: like that all year round. So I mean it's it's

696
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: probably economically speaking, in terms of you know, profits, probably

697
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,760
Speaker 1: much smarter to go with a dome. I would imagine

698
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: that way it can be used all year round. That's

699
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 1: really the only only thought that I had on it. Yeah,

700
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: it's good. It's a good call. Thanks Justin. Thanks for

701
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 1: the calling. You're right, it would if it's in an

702
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: indoor stadium all of a sudden, you know, wintertime concerts,

703
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: rock concerts, events, and it can also double as an

704
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: enormous enormous facility for conventions, m huge gatherings of you know,

705
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: regional gatherings of whatever, national gatherings. Look at oil Stadium

706
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: and all that's attached to it, that's right. I mean

707
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,399
Speaker 1: they've got like monster trucks in there and stuff and yeah,

708
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 1: so yeah, it's certainly a multi use facility would need

709
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: a roof in this region, particularly an orchard park, considering

710
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: it could get three feet of snow over the weekend.

711
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 1: You know, so it's a good point and economically, and

712
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: it becomes a math problem. Then does the price for

713
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,439
Speaker 1: putting a roof on it? You know, how long would

714
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: it have to be used and how much would you

715
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 1: have to use it? Twelve months a year? Insten just

716
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: four months a year? How much would you have to

717
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: use it in the other eight months to make the

718
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: extra cost of whatever would take to you know, to

719
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: keep cool roof it whatever? Does the math work out?

720
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: And you'd have to hustle. I would imagine you have

721
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 1: to hustle and get a bunch of concerts in a

722
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: bunch of events, in a bunch of conferences in you

723
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: have to hustle a big, a great deal to make

724
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: it cost effective, right, Yeah, you would have to have

725
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,240
Speaker 1: stuff in there quite a bit throughout the off season.

726
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,320
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody's all for that, which you and I.

727
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 1: What a cool venue to promote all that stuff. Make

728
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: sure everybody heard about it would come in and see it. Yeah,

729
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 1: what a cool venue to have concerts. And I think

730
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: it's so awesome when they do concerts inside of different

731
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 1: types of stadiums. Yeah. I go back to Wrigley Field.

732
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: They've done some awesome concerts inside Wrigley Field. How cool

733
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 1: is it in your band comes to town and plays

734
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: inside your favorite stadium Northwest? I want to go see

735
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 1: it played football in Wrigley and then like two years ago,

736
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 1: then the three years ago. Maybe. Yeah, it's seeing those

737
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: Seeing these venues used is nice. I mean Wrigley's is certainly,

738
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: it's only its own kind of thing, but all these

739
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: other stadiums as well, I mean AT and T they

740
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 1: use that thing for everything, college games and all that.

741
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,839
Speaker 1: And if the Bills had a roof over their stadium, yeah,

742
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: it would be clearly, clearly expand its window of operation.

743
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 1: We've got some more callers. Frank from Woodstock, you are

744
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: on with us. What are your thoughts on a possible

745
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: new stadium here in Buffalo. I'm telling you the stadium

746
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: when I first went there many many years ago. When

747
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 1: you walk through there, you're just floored. The stadium is awesome.

748
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: Come on Buffalo in December, snow brawl and twenty below zero.

749
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: It's awesome. If they want to do it retractable, I'm

750
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: all right with that. But there isn't a bad suit

751
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 1: in that stadium. And you're so close to the players.

752
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: I mean, that's part of the whole gig there. You're

753
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: in my top five players. Maddie, you're awesome. Also. That's

754
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,720
Speaker 1: all I got to say. It's a great stadium. Okay,

755
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 1: it needs a little updating, and I get all the

756
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: other stuff, but I'm just floored when I walked through there,

757
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: and I've been to that stadium mega times. It's just

758
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 1: an awesome stadium. It's a great stadium to see games.

759
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 1: It's and again, Buffalo Bills in December. You can't beat it. Yeah,

760
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: that's it's It's true. Frank, You're right. And I'll say

761
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: this not for nothing. And whether we win the game

762
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 1: or whether we lose, or whether we have a good

763
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: team or a bad team, whether whatever, it doesn't matter.

764
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: You think back across the most watched and the most

765
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: interesting games nationally for the Bills outside of big playoff games,

766
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: the AFC Championship games and the old Super Bowls and whatever.

767
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: But people, and I'm talking about nationally and particularly the

768
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: TV people that I used to work for, CBS, Fox, NBC,

769
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 1: all of those like minded businesses. When you've got a

770
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,359
Speaker 1: game like the Bills had against the Indianapolis Colts four

771
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: years five years ago, when the snow game, when the

772
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: shady game scored an overtime, they want that on TV

773
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: all day, every day they can get it. They the

774
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,720
Speaker 1: Cleveland game ten years ago, fifteen or whatever, how many

775
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:20,800
Speaker 1: decades ago it was. It was like back in oh six,

776
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know, but that the TV people want

777
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: those games on TV. They would they'd paid double the

778
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: price to get that on because everybody wants to see it.

779
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: If you're if you're surfing channel surfing, you you gotta

780
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: stop and watch that. And that it's historic. I mean,

781
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: people love it, and the TV people, the network executives,

782
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 1: the announce don't kid yourself, the announcers, everybody. You couldn't

783
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: take your eyes off that game. And it's not like

784
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 1: something like that happens every single season. This is a

785
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 1: once a few years, what will you say, once every

786
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 1: five years? Things? That game we're looking at in the

787
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 1: Indianapolis as a once in a life that's Nothing's never

788
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,399
Speaker 1: in a game like that ever in Buffalo. As often

789
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 1: as people say, oh, it's cool, it'll get cold, never

790
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: like that. That's once in our lifetime right there. And

791
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: that may happen this year too, right because we say that,

792
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 1: But it's never happened like that, and not in my

793
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 1: not since nineteen eighty six, were not since I've been here.

794
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: Now it's rained the day, it's snowed the day before,

795
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: and it snowed like in the first half. We had

796
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:29,720
Speaker 1: some a little bit of snow for a New Orleans

797
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: game or whatever. The John four K game when they

798
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: beat us when we were like eleven and two and

799
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: they were two and eleven and they beat us games

800
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: like that, but nothing like that. That was nothing like that.

801
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: And it was also another game in Cleveland, which I

802
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 1: was an announcer for Buffalo. It was Rob Johnson and

803
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 1: the Bills against the Cleveland Browns and one of their

804
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and they beat the Bills like eight to nothing

805
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 1: or something like that. And it was a horrible game,

806
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,879
Speaker 1: but people talked about it for the entire next week.

807
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 1: They couldn't take their eyes off those pictures, the video.

808
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: If you're gonna have an indoor stadium, you gotta kiss

809
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 1: that goodbye. That is gone forever. Which I feel like

810
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 1: indoor you have to do retractable if you're going to

811
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: do If you're gonna do the option of indoor, you

812
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: can't know. That is one thing that I will be

813
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,760
Speaker 1: super passionate about because you have to have the option

814
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: to open it. Come on, nobody opens their retractable roof.

815
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 1: Let me just this, just do what if this is

816
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: the one team that actually does that, they don't do

817
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: it anymore. They don't do it because the coaches are

818
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 1: saying they're going to no, we don't want that thing.

819
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: Who makes the decision is the coaching staff, the ones

820
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: that make the decision to keep it. Ultimately, that's who.

821
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: That's who everybody listens to. What if Josh Allen is like,

822
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:49,320
Speaker 1: keep it open, keep it open. Houston Texas never opens

823
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:56,879
Speaker 1: theirs for games they close those teams are babies. Well

824
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: we'll probably get soft in our old age, Jamie. But

825
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if you have a retract Let's just

826
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 1: this just in all you fans out there. You think so,

827
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: if it's a retractable roof, they will never open it

828
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 1: for a game. They'll do it the first year or so,

829
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: and then they'll see it's gonna cost us or they

830
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,279
Speaker 1: kind it's the game. No close it. They will keep

831
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: it closed every single time. I promise you they will.

832
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 1: I don't want to say that's true, but I feel

833
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: like that will probably happen. It's true. It's just the

834
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: way it is. If if you have a retractable dome,

835
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:34,720
Speaker 1: it's never open. Look at Indianapolis never does it. Houston

836
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: never does it. Houston, they never open it ever. So

837
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 1: all right, we've got another caller. We've got a bunch

838
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 1: of callers on the phone. We're gonna take one more

839
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 1: before you take a break. So Adam is on the phone. Adam,

840
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: you think the team should not move away from Orchard Park? Right? Well,

841
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 1: Steve fellow Northwestern graduate here, And it's funny you were

842
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 1: mentioning the Wildcat's playing in d Field several years ago.

843
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 1: I was able to attend that game, and Maddie, you

844
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: were talking about ruglu Field as well. And to me,

845
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,919
Speaker 1: what makes the stadium great isn't necessarily all the big

846
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: money amenities or the luxury boxes. It's the ambiance and

847
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,879
Speaker 1: the experience. And I think with the stadium we have now,

848
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: we already have a top five experience, top five ambiance

849
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 1: in the league. It's just not worth it to me

850
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: to spend a billion dollars or more on building a

851
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: new stadium. I would understand if it was downtown and

852
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,320
Speaker 1: it was going to be a year round event venue.

853
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: But to spend that much money, which inevitably will come

854
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: with an increase in ticket prices, personal seat licenses, And

855
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 1: they're talking about moving the team from two to four

856
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: hours away for a couple of years during our Super

857
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 1: Bowl window here during Josh Allen's prime. I just can't

858
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 1: get behind that. So I'd like to see the current

859
00:45:56,280 --> 00:46:00,240
Speaker 1: stadium become like one of the next lambeau Field legendary

860
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: type of venus in the way. That's what I'd like

861
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: to see. Yeah, yeah, that's true. He's right, Um there is.

862
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: There are some stadiums that have a certain field about him.

863
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,360
Speaker 1: Lamba is one of them. Lambo is a very intimate

864
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: setting and they have taken it upon themselves to kind

865
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 1: of just add more seats where they can and build

866
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 1: it up and get in even the I mean, it's

867
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: a tall stadium right close to the field. It's a

868
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: very close and intimate setting in Lambeau, and it's a

869
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 1: it's a unique field and a unique stadium. You're right,

870
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 1: every fields a little different. Soldier Field in Chicago. The

871
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 1: second tier was built to be if you remember the

872
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:45,720
Speaker 1: second tier of the stands, I was going to fall

873
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: over because it's you just go, it's straight up. It's

874
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 1: like a spatious sacer. And the reason they built that

875
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 1: the way they did was because they heard that when

876
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: George Hallis and the Bears used to play in Wrigley

877
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 1: that the best seats in the NFL were the second

878
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 1: tier down the right field line at Wrigley because they

879
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 1: were so steep and so out over the field. They

880
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 1: said there was the best seats in pro football. They

881
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,399
Speaker 1: recreated those in the New Soldier Field. And that's why

882
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: if you're sitting below that on the first section, the

883
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 1: seats stink. But that second tier at the New Soldier

884
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: Field are great. They're awesome seats. So there's those kind

885
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: of ambiance and unique features of all these stadiums that

886
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 1: make them unique. I think you gotta put a lot

887
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 1: of time and a lot of effort and a lot

888
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: of research and be willing to spend maybe a little

889
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 1: extra money to make those things happen and make sure

890
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 1: that when they do happen, that they're worth it. All Right,

891
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: We're going to take another break, but when we come back,

892
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,319
Speaker 1: we will answer some more phone calls. So stay on

893
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: the line. Let us know what you think about a

894
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: new open air stadium in Orchard Park. If you think

895
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: it should happen, if you think it shouldn't, give us call.

896
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: At eight oh three, five fifty one Bills Live percent

897
00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: by Clyde Health on Buffalo Bills Radio, We're back here

898
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: on one Bills Live on a Monday afternoon. Maddi Glabin

899
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: for Chris Brown. I'm here with Steve Tasker, and the

900
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: conversation of the day is a report about a new stadium,

901
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: possibly for the Buffalo Bills here in Orchard Park, as

902
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: the current lease on the building here expires in twenty

903
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: twenty three, so nothing is officially yet, but we're just

904
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,720
Speaker 1: talking about reports, and we have quite a few people

905
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:42,839
Speaker 1: hanging on the line to be part of this conversation

906
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: and what they would want to see out of a

907
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: new stadium, where they would want it to be, what

908
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:48,919
Speaker 1: they would want it to look like. So we're gonna

909
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 1: go right back to the phone lines. We've got Tony

910
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,800
Speaker 1: from Niagara Falls. Tony, you've been waiting for about sixteen minutes.

911
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging on the line there. What do you think? Well,

912
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 1: good afternoon, and got Ath and Steve. I have a

913
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 1: little different take on the stadium and where it should be.

914
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,479
Speaker 1: I've heard all the people in all the accolades about

915
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: the stadium, and then they're probably all true. But the

916
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: stadium is the stadium. It's not where the stadium that

917
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: makes the stadium so attractive. It's the stadium. That same

918
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:21,799
Speaker 1: stadium in downtown Buffalo, the Broadway Film area would be

919
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: just as attractive. That area needs revitalization. We should learn

920
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: from the past. Let's not make the same mistake twice.

921
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: We all know why the stadium is in downtown Buppo anyways,

922
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 1: but around here while knows why I wasn't here, And

923
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: let's not do it again. That stadium, if there was

924
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: where the old Ring train station would be ideal. You

925
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,839
Speaker 1: have major bus routes, you have transports, it's a hub

926
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,839
Speaker 1: for transportation. You have also a train that goes there.

927
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:50,879
Speaker 1: You talk about extending the fan base, Well, the train

928
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: would do that beautiful. What that would do for that

929
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: area is undeniable. I mean there is a lot of

930
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 1: dilapidated houses that could be torn down and a stadium.

931
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:04,280
Speaker 1: You can incorporate that new train station into the stadium

932
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:07,800
Speaker 1: summer as a store, restaurant. I mean, we need hotels.

933
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,719
Speaker 1: The hotels in Buffalo would furbish. I mean, it would

934
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:15,319
Speaker 1: just be a tremendous, tremendous asset to this community to

935
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: put the stadium. And it could be open, it could

936
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: be closed. It really don't matter. But it's the Buffalo bills,

937
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: not the Orchard Park bills, not the Lancaster bills, not

938
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,760
Speaker 1: the Ambers bills. It's the Buffalo bills, and it belongs

939
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,360
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. And then thank you for giving me the

940
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: opportunity to comment on it. Tony, have a great day. Yeah,

941
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 1: I guess that Tony's gonna run out on us. H oh, Tony,

942
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:47,320
Speaker 1: UM be there so here? Um, why should the team

943
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: move downtown when it's been so successful Orchard Park? Well

944
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,760
Speaker 1: it could because it could be just as successful downtown

945
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:57,839
Speaker 1: you and and you're talking about a new stadium. You're

946
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: talking about well, I'll tell you you turn your TV down,

947
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 1: Tony Tony anyway, he gets he's right, and we've this

948
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: is the same conversation, Letten. Let's not forget there'll be

949
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: people of Tony's ilk and his generation who remember, Um,

950
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: what a lot of people thought was a fiasco of

951
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,279
Speaker 1: putting this putting a team here in the first place, UM,

952
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: and in Orchard Park, which is the south of the city,

953
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 1: all of that stuff, and there's uh, and even Ralph Wilson,

954
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 1: the former owner. Obviously, we'll tell you one of the

955
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 1: reasons he didn't want to put it on the waterfront

956
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 1: was because he only had If you put it on

957
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 1: the lake, you only had half the land around the

958
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:42,319
Speaker 1: stadium to park and all of that stuff. Uh. And

959
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 1: the day and the generation which the stadium was built

960
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,759
Speaker 1: to begin with. It it's not now, but it used

961
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,720
Speaker 1: to be Maddie eighty thousand, two hundred and fifty people.

962
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: It was an enormous stadium, and it was a big

963
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 1: burden for a small city like Buffalo to fill that

964
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: thing up. But when the team was good, it did

965
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: for the most part. But it was still a burden.

966
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:03,240
Speaker 1: So when they refurbished and added on to and stuff,

967
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:06,359
Speaker 1: they slowly kept taking seats out and putting more amenities in,

968
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,439
Speaker 1: which took up space. And now it's down to I think,

969
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:13,319
Speaker 1: what is a seventy seventy plus seventy plus thousand, So

970
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: it's not quite the same burden as it once was,

971
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 1: and there are more amenities available if people are willing

972
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:21,880
Speaker 1: to pay, you know, they can get in closed seats

973
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:25,359
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So, um, I if they did

974
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 1: a study that says the most people want the thing

975
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: in Orchard Park, and I trust the study. I mean,

976
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 1: they did an extensive survey. So if it says do

977
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,799
Speaker 1: do the stadium wherever? If it said downtown, do it

978
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 1: down there. If it says here, it's fine. Um yeah,

979
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:47,760
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna go with and despite what Tony

980
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 1: might have thought. And I get it, there's gonna be

981
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: people who agree with him, but they did they did

982
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:54,839
Speaker 1: the research, they did the work, and this is where

983
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 1: it says it should be. That's fine. I'm fine with it.

984
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:01,320
Speaker 1: I don't care. I mean, I could it could be downstad.

985
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 1: I don't care where it is. Someone someone like me

986
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: who moved here two years ago and is new to

987
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 1: this area and you know, understands the traditions in the history,

988
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 1: but not as well as someone like you who has

989
00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: been here for quite some time. I understand the other

990
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: side of the coin of oh, downtown seems cool. I

991
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:25,400
Speaker 1: live downtown. Downtown's a great area. There's space downtown to

992
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: do stuff. Does Downtown make it an area that more

993
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: people can travel into with like Tony was saying, trains

994
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:35,880
Speaker 1: and buses. Maybe maybe not. I mean you can get

995
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:38,400
Speaker 1: you can get pretty much anywhere by car nowadays, or

996
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: by bus however you're traveling. But I do get the

997
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 1: want to have it somewhere like downtown, which is what

998
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 1: some other teams have decided to do over the last

999
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: several years. You know, move it to where the action is,

1000
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:54,959
Speaker 1: move it to where things are happening. Maybe more people

1001
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 1: want to travel into games then. But Orchard Park has

1002
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 1: its own thing going on. You've got you've got such

1003
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 1: a cool atmosphere here with the tailgating being in neighborhoods

1004
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: and the RV lots and the different types of lots

1005
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: and the history there. But they had back in the day,

1006
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:16,799
Speaker 1: remember they had the Buffalo Bills Express which came from

1007
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 1: all Beneath through Syracuse, Rochester to the games, and they

1008
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 1: could have run a track. All they needed was three

1009
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: hundred feet a track at the stadium because the spur

1010
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:32,600
Speaker 1: is right that right here, it's real close, and they

1011
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 1: could run a rail and they could have. The problem

1012
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 1: wasn't the bills or Erie County or anything, right, it

1013
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 1: was the train company. It was it was Amtrak, you know.

1014
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 1: They they couldn't make it happen. So yeah, that's all

1015
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 1: possible when it's where it's sitting, where it right is,

1016
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:55,360
Speaker 1: with the trains and the bus and all that stuff.

1017
00:54:55,600 --> 00:55:00,080
Speaker 1: So yeah, they've done the work. So if it's and

1018
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: I don't know what the work is, I know I'm

1019
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 1: part of the thousands upon thousands of people who did

1020
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 1: this survey, so I know they've talked to enough people.

1021
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 1: So whatever the research says, I'm I'm one hundred percent

1022
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:12,720
Speaker 1: behind it. If they say it should be an orchard

1023
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 1: park and an open air, all right, and do it.

1024
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go. Although you know this place, I

1025
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:23,359
Speaker 1: love the stadium now, I mean but all right, we'll see.

1026
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll give it a chance. You know, it's great,

1027
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: it's exciting because I don't know. I'm a you and

1028
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:34,400
Speaker 1: me both we have our opinions. I just want to

1029
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 1: I just want to watch. I just want to I

1030
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 1: just want to see gun, right, I just want to win.

1031
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: I just want to see the team play. And if

1032
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: it's in a new stadium, awesome. I want to see

1033
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:44,839
Speaker 1: what that sounds good? Yeah, sounds good. Let's go so

1034
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 1: open air. I can dress warm, indoors cool it fine?

1035
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, just wear my gear. So just you know,

1036
00:55:57,239 --> 00:56:00,560
Speaker 1: give me a parking space, doesn't or where it is.

1037
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:02,880
Speaker 1: It is here in Orchard Park, I'll go. I'll go

1038
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 1: to Niagara Falls, I'll go you know whatever. I'll go

1039
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 1: to Batavia. You know, put it where you want, put

1040
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 1: it wherever you want. I'll be there. So I think

1041
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:13,719
Speaker 1: a lot of Bills fans are like that. But as

1042
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 1: long as we're asking, yeah, I'll take an open air. Well,

1043
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quick few minutes off and we're

1044
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: gonna be back with more. We've got some more people

1045
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 1: hanging on the lines. Say on the lines. We know

1046
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 1: people have been waiting for like twenty minutes. We will

1047
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:31,080
Speaker 1: get to you after the break. One Bills Lie presented

1048
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 1: by Kyle I to help. This is a Buffalo Bills

1049
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 1: radio at a Steve caster who has been all all

1050
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: over the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind of

1051
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:57,760
Speaker 1: a dual role player for you, ste Steve a blimp.

1052
00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:05,880
Speaker 1: We're not even into threaded here of normalcy. Here. It's

1053
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 1: Monday here at One Bill's Drive. We are on One

1054
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:12,960
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Speaker 1: the first hour to talk about a report that came

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Speaker 1: out that the Buffalo Bills could be building a new

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00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 1: open air stadium in Orchard Park. We've had many calls.

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Speaker 1: We've talked at length about what we would like a

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00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 1: new stadium to look like, and we still have several

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Speaker 1: callers waiting on the phone lines. Thank you for hanging on.

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Speaker 1: Please keep hanging on. We are going to pivot the

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Speaker 1: conversation for just a quick second for some other breaking

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00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 1: news that came out right before our show began. It

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Speaker 1: has to do with college athletics and the Supreme Court

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00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 1: on Monday unanimously sided with a group of former college

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00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 1: athletes in a dispute with the nc DOUBLEA over rules

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00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 1: limiting certain compensation. That's right. It's big because the NCA

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00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 1: and the players and people have been criticizing the NCAA

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00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 1: for a long time, ever since they realized that they're

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Speaker 1: making tons of money off of NCAA football and in

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00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 1: the NCAA basketball tournament, and they didn't think it was

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Speaker 1: fair that the players aren't getting anything out of that.

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00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:18,439
Speaker 1: And so this case went to the Supreme Court and

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Speaker 1: it was they lost nine nothing unanimously. Now, this is

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00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:28,480
Speaker 1: a very narrow lawsuit. So that and what I've been

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00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:31,520
Speaker 1: able to discern from all the rhetoric that surrounds it

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00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 1: is that now it's going to be possible for colleges

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00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:39,360
Speaker 1: to compensate the player, and the college is to compensate

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00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 1: the players with things that are related to their educational experience,

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00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:47,840
Speaker 1: for instance, free laptops, phone gear like I don't clothe that, whatever.

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00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 1: They can compensate them with things that make it possible

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Speaker 1: for them to get their education, room and board and

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00:58:54,880 --> 00:59:01,200
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And part of the the majority decision

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Speaker 1: that was written by A Justice Kavanaugh, he cites all

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Speaker 1: the you know, the traditions that have become part of

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00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 1: America game days in Tuscaloos, Alabama, South Bend, Indiana, gyms

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00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 1: in stores, and Durham, South North Carolina, or South Carolina,

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00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 1: the women's and men's lacrosse championships on Memorial Day, weekend

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Speaker 1: track and field meets in Eugene, Oregon, and the you know,

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Speaker 1: like the Olympic Trials that we've seen over the last weekend,

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00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 1: springs softball games, Baseball World Series in Oklahoma City. There's

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00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 1: a ton of traditions across college athletics. But here's here's

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00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 1: the crux of the thing, and here's what, and I'm

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00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 1: quoting from this report of Justice Kavanaugh wrote, he said this,

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Speaker 1: but those traditions alone cannot justify the NCAA's division to

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00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:49,960
Speaker 1: build a massive money raising enterprise on the backs of

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00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:54,000
Speaker 1: student athletes who are not fairly compensated. Nowhere else in

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Speaker 1: America can a business get away with agreeing to not

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Speaker 1: pay their workers a fair market rate on the theory

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Speaker 1: that their product is defined by not paying their workers

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01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:06,600
Speaker 1: a fair market rate. Under ordinary principles of antitrust law,

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Speaker 1: it is not evident why college sports should be any different.

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01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:12,920
Speaker 1: The NCAA is not above the law. So there you

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Speaker 1: have it. Just by saying, hey, we're doing amateur athletics

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01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 1: over here, we're not supposed to We're not allowed to

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Speaker 1: pay our players. So that's why we're doing business the

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01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 1: way we do it and making all this money. And

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Speaker 1: the governing and the Supreme Court of the United States said,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, you're gonna make all this money on

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Speaker 1: the backs just so you can call them amateurs. It's

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01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 1: not gonna fly. Plus yet, think about this, and I

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01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:39,280
Speaker 1: thought the NCAA totally botched it, because I would have

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Speaker 1: gone with the argument that, hey, we are paying them,

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01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:44,960
Speaker 1: we're giving them a two hundred thousand dollars college education.

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Speaker 1: That's the deal. The teams in our National Collegiate Athletics

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01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 1: Association agree to a fair playing field so that they're

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Speaker 1: gonna get these kids to come in, give them a

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Speaker 1: fairge a great college education, which by the way, there's

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Speaker 1: no cap on how good or not education they can offer.

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Speaker 1: We're going to give them that in exchange for their services.

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Speaker 1: So really we call them amateurs, but they're not amateurs.

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Speaker 1: That would have been a better argument, in my estimation,

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Speaker 1: than the one that's saying, no, we're not paying them

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Speaker 1: because we want to be amateur and we're gonna make

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Speaker 1: a ton of money doing it. That doesn't I mean,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't fly. But you know, they should have said, listen,

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Speaker 1: we call them anagers. They're not amateurs, they're pros because

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Speaker 1: we're paying them two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in education.

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Speaker 1: They didn't do that and they lost. This is the

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Speaker 1: beginning of something that is going to get confusing road

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Speaker 1: and this will be one of many cases in front

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Speaker 1: of the Supreme Court. This is the beginning of a

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Speaker 1: lot of this. Yeah, and I don't think that the

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Speaker 1: uncable I should profit as much as they do off

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Speaker 1: of student athletes. I think there does need to be

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Speaker 1: some fairness there. But it's going to get interesting when

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Speaker 1: you're talking about, Okay, are the stars going to make

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Speaker 1: all the money? What about the other athletes? What about

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01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: the smaller sports? Are those still going to be smaller sports?

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Speaker 1: Are they just gonna go away into the abyss for

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01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 1: some of these universities. Are you going to see D

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01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 1: one schools who can't afford this go to D two

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01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: and D three and not deal with it anymore? Think

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Speaker 1: you think about it as well. I mean, certainly there's

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01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 1: no question that universe colleges and universities, and certainly the

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01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:30,760
Speaker 1: NCAA itself has made mountains of money. Hey, big time

1147
01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:33,160
Speaker 1: college football schools and you can go down the list

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01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 1: and we all familiar with them making a ton of

1149
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Speaker 1: money doing it. Well, that money is being spent on something,

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01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 1: and it's it's not I trust trust me, it's not

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01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:46,440
Speaker 1: just going into guys pockets. Like the president of the

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01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 1: university is not line in his own pockets with this,

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01:02:49,520 --> 01:02:51,880
Speaker 1: because wasn't Lyne in my pockets where I worked at

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01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 1: the university. What it goes to basically is, well, the

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01:02:56,880 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 1: football team's making us money, but the but the men

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01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:03,439
Speaker 1: lacrosse isn't, the women's field hockey isn't, the softball team isn't,

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Speaker 1: the baseball teams. None of these other athletes are making

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01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:10,480
Speaker 1: us a dime, But they're on scholarship and that's where

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Speaker 1: we're funding those And that's a kind of I think

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Speaker 1: where it goes now that could be different forever university.

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01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:18,919
Speaker 1: But it's not like all of a sudden, this money

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Speaker 1: is going to come from nowhere and say, now we

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Speaker 1: got money to pay these guys, because that money's you know,

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Speaker 1: spoken for by other entities within the university. They're they're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to do something else to fund their whatever

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Speaker 1: science program. I don't know their baseball program, wherever that

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Speaker 1: money is being spent, and it is being spent that

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Speaker 1: money's if that money is going to go someplace else,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see where they get it.

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Speaker 1: Now what this does say, And like I said, it

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Speaker 1: was a very narrow ruling. It sounds like they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be given out stuff like phones and laptops for the kids,

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01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 1: you know, to make it easy on their you know,

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Speaker 1: better meal plans, you know, healthcare given food and clothing,

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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. But they can only give them

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Speaker 1: things now that benefit that are for their educational experience,

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Speaker 1: not for you know, it can't sending money home to mom. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I'll say there's some things that the Uncuba did

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Speaker 1: that is it's just silly and it's so stupid. And

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Speaker 1: I worked at Tennessee and I worked at Stanford before

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01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:24,120
Speaker 1: coming in the bills and just some of the rules

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01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:27,600
Speaker 1: that were in place that made zero sense because it

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01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:30,080
Speaker 1: was a benefit for the student athlete if they got

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01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:34,200
Speaker 1: X y Z, we're just insane and so not right.

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Speaker 1: Like for example, you could have a recruit on campus

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Speaker 1: who was doing a tour and this recruit comes in

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Speaker 1: from out of town and it is super cold that day,

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01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 1: let's say, and they came in in shorts and a

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Speaker 1: T shirt, and their whole family is there, and the

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Speaker 1: weather wasn't supposed to be terrible, but it is terrible,

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Speaker 1: and they don't have sweatshirts or something, and they went

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Speaker 1: to the bookstore to go get the recruit and their

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Speaker 1: family some clothing to wear because or freezing or they're

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01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,160
Speaker 1: super hot or whatever. And you couldn't do it because

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01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:08,400
Speaker 1: it was an NC double A violation. It's like, what, Yeah,

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01:05:08,440 --> 01:05:10,880
Speaker 1: there were silly things in there that just and you

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01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:14,800
Speaker 1: always had to tiptoe. I mean, we hope, Like I

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Speaker 1: helped tour around several recruits in our department, and you

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01:05:18,360 --> 01:05:22,200
Speaker 1: were always asking five million questions, if I talk about this,

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Speaker 1: if I do this, where's the violation? Where it isn't

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01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:27,280
Speaker 1: the violation? Because it felt like almost everything could be

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01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:30,280
Speaker 1: a violation because there were so many rules written into

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01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:33,240
Speaker 1: what you could and could not do as an NC

1204
01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:35,920
Speaker 1: double A athlete or as an NC double A recruit.

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01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:40,440
Speaker 1: It was so insane and so stupid in so many ways.

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01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:43,080
Speaker 1: So I hope that this gets rid of some of

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01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:48,360
Speaker 1: these things that just make absolutely no sense and have

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01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 1: made no sense for so many years. Right, and that's

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01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:57,600
Speaker 1: we've all heard of, you know, outlandish stories about the

1210
01:05:57,600 --> 01:06:03,120
Speaker 1: guy got you know, ineligible because he he got a

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01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:05,640
Speaker 1: free from Hamburger, from the recruiting, that kind of stuff.

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01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 1: I mean, it's literally that kind of stuff where they

1213
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 1: get violations and the you know, the schools on probation

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01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:15,360
Speaker 1: or whatever, and it's and it's a vast sea of

1215
01:06:15,440 --> 01:06:21,760
Speaker 1: regulations that is almost impossible to enforce and let alone

1216
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:25,360
Speaker 1: keep track of. So this court case came down today.

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Speaker 1: The NCAA was nine. They lost nine nothing. Wow, they

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01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:36,400
Speaker 1: got their heads caved in. So they lost. Now, like

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01:06:36,440 --> 01:06:40,120
Speaker 1: I said, it's a narrow, a very narrow ruling. But

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Speaker 1: I have heard some rhetoric that comes out of this.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that comes out of this is

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Speaker 1: listening and you don't know this, Maddie. It's illegal for

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Speaker 1: a college football player to sign an agent as a

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01:06:50,080 --> 01:06:52,040
Speaker 1: sports agent. You can't you can represent me with a

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01:06:52,080 --> 01:06:54,240
Speaker 1: pro athlete as a pro athlete. That kind of thing

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Speaker 1: that's illegal under this ruling. Now it's conjectured that it

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01:06:58,360 --> 01:07:02,439
Speaker 1: will not be illegal for a college athlete to hire

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01:07:02,480 --> 01:07:05,560
Speaker 1: an agent as a marketing age. There's a key word

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01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:08,560
Speaker 1: right there, because they're allowed to make money off of

1230
01:07:08,560 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 1: their likeness in certain states and whatever, and you can

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01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 1: have that be the case. Now what and say, well,

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Speaker 1: big deal, who are these kids? Well, the kids won't

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01:07:18,240 --> 01:07:20,720
Speaker 1: really be hiring the marketing game. The marketing age will

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01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:23,280
Speaker 1: be paying the kid to be his agent on the

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01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:25,080
Speaker 1: in the hopes that in two years, when he's a

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01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:27,240
Speaker 1: first round draft pick, he'll be his sports agent as

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01:07:27,240 --> 01:07:30,160
Speaker 1: well as his marketing agent. So you'll have these kids

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01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 1: at an Ohio State and an Alabama and Clemson in

1239
01:07:33,520 --> 01:07:36,680
Speaker 1: a Houston and an LSU or whatever whatever whatever notre Dame.

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Speaker 1: They'll have marketing agents who will be paying the kid

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01:07:40,840 --> 01:07:44,040
Speaker 1: affront of you know whatever, six figures whatever. The money

1242
01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:50,320
Speaker 1: is good, batter indifferent. The kid's gonna sign and be

1243
01:07:50,560 --> 01:07:53,600
Speaker 1: and we'll have money. Then he'll have a quality of life.

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01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:55,640
Speaker 1: When he's a college kid. He can you know, he

1245
01:07:55,680 --> 01:07:58,600
Speaker 1: can afford pizza money because right now some of them can't.

1246
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 1: So he will be able to do that, and you'll

1247
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:05,560
Speaker 1: be able to make a good living during college because

1248
01:08:05,560 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 1: he's got this guy banking on hint, betting on him

1249
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:10,840
Speaker 1: to get into the pro pro ranks as a as

1250
01:08:10,840 --> 01:08:12,840
Speaker 1: a player. And then the you know, the money, the

1251
01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:15,320
Speaker 1: agent gets the money back on the contract the kid signs.

1252
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:19,519
Speaker 1: So that is a loophole that has been opened by

1253
01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:21,559
Speaker 1: this ruling that we're gonna have to wait and see

1254
01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:26,559
Speaker 1: the ramifications of it. And this is the beginning slippery slope.

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01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:29,920
Speaker 1: It's gonna get weird over the next few years in

1256
01:08:29,960 --> 01:08:34,439
Speaker 1: the NCAA. Yeah, it is awesome. I don't know. Wait, yeah, yeah,

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01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:36,519
Speaker 1: we can talk about We'll talk about that a little

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01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:38,680
Speaker 1: bit after we can get back to the stadium talking abreak.

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Speaker 1: I guess yeah, we're gonna I was gonna say, it's

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Speaker 1: best we take a break. Can this for now? We

1261
01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:46,640
Speaker 1: can get back into that stadium talk because we do

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01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:49,000
Speaker 1: have some people who've been on the line for forty minutes.

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Speaker 1: You guys are wonderful people to be hanging on the

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Speaker 1: line that long on a Monday afternoon. So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get to you right after this break, So stay with

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Speaker 1: us here. One Bill's Life presented by Kalida Health on

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. We are back here on One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live Mattie Glab and Steve Tasker continuing the conversation about

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Speaker 1: the report that came out about a new Bills stadium

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Speaker 1: and open our stadium that could be coming to Orchard Park.

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Speaker 1: We know zero details except this report, but it has

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Speaker 1: driven some great conversation and a lot of callers. So

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Speaker 1: we're going to go right to the phone lines because

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Speaker 1: we've had some people hanging on for a while. Kevin

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Speaker 1: from Rochester, you're on with us. What do you think

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Speaker 1: about the possibility of a new stadium here in Orchard Park?

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Speaker 1: I think it should be they should increase the size

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Speaker 1: to one hundred thousand people, and it should be outdoor

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Speaker 1: because the elements of the weather make the game more

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Speaker 1: interesting the watch. That's what I think. Why one hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand people, because well it's okay as long as you

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Speaker 1: If you don't sell it out, you'll never get to

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Speaker 1: watch the game. Thanks for calling in, Kevin. So I

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Speaker 1: mean one question. One hundred thousand people. Hey, we were

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Speaker 1: talking about college athletics in our last segment. Tennessee had

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Speaker 1: one hundred and two thousand, four hundred fifty five people. Yea,

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Speaker 1: they packed that place and sold it out when they

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Speaker 1: were good. Keyword there quite a bit. Well, yeah, it

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Speaker 1: was insanely loud, But one hundred and two thousand, one

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand is so many people? Eight and Tennessee doesn't

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Speaker 1: have a winter either. Think about this, folks. In the

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Speaker 1: four years that the Bills went to the four Super Bowls, UM, No,

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Speaker 1: that's not true. In the what was it in the nineties,

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Speaker 1: I can't remember the stretch of years it was that. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think it was in the nineties. The Bills were

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Speaker 1: more regular season games than any team in the league

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Speaker 1: over the ten years of nineteen ninety nineteen ninety nine,

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Speaker 1: and they sold out about sixty four percent of their

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Speaker 1: games with the with the stadium in the state that

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Speaker 1: it was. Um. And that means within the within the

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Speaker 1: framework of the sellout of the blackout rule sort it

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Speaker 1: had to be sold out three days before the game.

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Speaker 1: And if you remember the comeback game when the team

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01:11:30,160 --> 01:11:31,960
Speaker 1: was going to go to its third of four straight

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Speaker 1: Super Bowls, that game wasn't a sellout. It's hard to do.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to do in this in a town the

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Speaker 1: size of Buffalo, even when your team's really good, to

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Speaker 1: sell out a big, big, big stadium. UM. And I

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Speaker 1: think there's been some conversation, UM and some of the

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Speaker 1: guys I know that nothing and nothing official and this

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01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:55,000
Speaker 1: does not come from the Bills or my in dealings

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Speaker 1: with any executives or anything like that. But back in

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Speaker 1: the day, a lot of people thought when they were

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Speaker 1: talking about you know, the new reading back of the

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Speaker 1: year two thousand, when they were renewing the least and stuff,

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Speaker 1: that maybe the stadium was too big and they'd need

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01:12:07,320 --> 01:12:09,759
Speaker 1: to have a stadium like Chicago Stadium, like a sixty

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Speaker 1: sixty one, sixty five thousand seat stadium, so that you'd

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Speaker 1: create a little bit of an appetite for the seats

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Speaker 1: instead of creating this like there's always five dollars ticket available,

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01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:24,280
Speaker 1: instead of that causing a little bit of a harder,

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Speaker 1: you know, harder time getting a ticket. So there's some

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Speaker 1: conversations about that as well. I don't know if all

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Speaker 1: that's true now, but one hundred thousand seat stadium, no, no,

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Speaker 1: all right, we have a Tom from West Side. You

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Speaker 1: are on with us. Tom, what do you have to

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Speaker 1: say about the bills possibly getting a new stadium here

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Speaker 1: in Rchship Park. Hey, kids, And I feel privileged calling

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Speaker 1: you that, because Steve, when I watched Super Bowl years

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01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:58,040
Speaker 1: I was in my thirties and you're just a kid

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Speaker 1: I was. Anyway, as far as the NCAA goes, I

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Speaker 1: agree with you, Steve me and you think alike. If

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Speaker 1: they're using their likeness, they deserve compensation. So anyway about

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Speaker 1: the stadium, I think I would have loved it downtown

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01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:20,160
Speaker 1: and I do. I want it somewhere where they could

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Speaker 1: hook up light rail to it, because the fam track

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Speaker 1: can't get there. Then they got to be able to

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Speaker 1: have light rail get there. Now, that would mess up

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01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:37,000
Speaker 1: the parking lot party, the tailgate party. But you could

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01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:39,240
Speaker 1: always bring in the food trucks because we got so

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01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 1: many food trucks around here. And hey, Tony, that guy

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Speaker 1: earlier he said the Broadway fillmore. You could incorporate the

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Speaker 1: Broadway Market could become in the Broadway Market hotel, you know,

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Speaker 1: if you build it up. Yeah, I mean that. Here's

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Speaker 1: the thing, Tom there, it's gonna be an orchard part.

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Speaker 1: It looks like they've done the study, and that's where

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Speaker 1: it needs to be. That's where people most people want it. Certainly.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing too. Everybody would love to have the

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01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:13,639
Speaker 1: stadium in their neighborhood because even if it forces them

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01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:16,320
Speaker 1: to move, their their land is gonna go up. And

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Speaker 1: even if they're just on the fringes of it, they

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01:14:18,240 --> 01:14:20,080
Speaker 1: can you know, they can build, put a bar, a

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Speaker 1: pub in their garage and make all kinds of money.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's the kind of thing. I mean, it's

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01:14:24,160 --> 01:14:29,120
Speaker 1: gonna make the commercial real estate balloon in value, and

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Speaker 1: it's gonna bring a lot of attention. So yeah, every

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01:14:32,000 --> 01:14:36,040
Speaker 1: downtrodden little pocket of the city would love to have

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Speaker 1: the stadium get dropped in the middle of it. The

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Speaker 1: simple fact of the matter is, you know, fifty years

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Speaker 1: ago or whenever that was fifty years ago, they put

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Speaker 1: it an Orchard Park, and that's where it's going to be. Now,

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Speaker 1: that's where it's gonna be. So you can say you

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Speaker 1: wish you could, you could refurbish part of the city

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01:14:57,120 --> 01:15:00,840
Speaker 1: that is downtrodden. I get it. At it's not gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: That's not what it's about. I really want to see

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Speaker 1: a dome. I would rather have a retractable roof because

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01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:10,280
Speaker 1: you you were talking about year round us. Yeah, so

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01:15:10,520 --> 01:15:12,840
Speaker 1: if you want year around youth, you gotta have a

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Speaker 1: retractable so you can't open it sometimes and think about

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Speaker 1: the concerts you can have. That's right. Yeah, we've talked

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Speaker 1: about that as well. If it's gonna and I'll say

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Speaker 1: this again, if you have a retractable roof for football games,

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Speaker 1: It's never gonna be open ever, not even on not

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01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:34,080
Speaker 1: even on eighty five degree days in the summer. They

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Speaker 1: close that thing up. Yeah. Concerts, that's a different story.

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Speaker 1: They'll close that thing up and have an indoor concert. Yeah.

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01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:43,720
Speaker 1: That for for multi use, you do need. I think

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01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:48,000
Speaker 1: you do need a dome over it if you want

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Speaker 1: to have wintertime concerts, Like if you want to bring in,

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01:15:51,040 --> 01:15:54,840
Speaker 1: you know, a big rock rock band in February, you

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01:15:54,920 --> 01:15:57,920
Speaker 1: can do that now if you have a dome. Think

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01:15:57,960 --> 01:16:02,400
Speaker 1: about Billy Joel selling out Mattin Square Garden every weekend. Well,

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01:16:02,439 --> 01:16:06,439
Speaker 1: Billy Joel's come to the stadium in August, so I'm

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01:16:06,479 --> 01:16:11,599
Speaker 1: sure he's gonna sell it out. Yeah, I hope. I've

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01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:13,519
Speaker 1: had my tickets for two years, so I don't know.

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Speaker 1: You know, Maddie, I hope you're enjoying Buffalo. Hey, I

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01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:19,800
Speaker 1: love it. It's been so fun to be here in

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Speaker 1: the past two years. I'm excited for a third season

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01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:25,840
Speaker 1: and I cannot wait to see Himark Stadium back in

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Speaker 1: full capacity. So thanks for calling in, Tom, We appreciate it.

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01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:33,439
Speaker 1: All right, We've got some more callers. Yeah, people love

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01:16:33,479 --> 01:16:35,679
Speaker 1: talking about the stadium. No, let's keep it going. Jim

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01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:38,040
Speaker 1: from Buffalo. You are on with us. What are your

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01:16:38,120 --> 01:16:45,240
Speaker 1: thoughts guys going today? Good? Well? Good um. I had

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01:16:45,240 --> 01:16:48,960
Speaker 1: a couple of points, but pretty much everybody uh got

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01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:50,600
Speaker 1: that out the way. So let me just get to

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01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:53,200
Speaker 1: the one thing. The lease is up at She talks

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01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:56,720
Speaker 1: the twenty three am I right, yep, and then the

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01:16:57,120 --> 01:17:00,719
Speaker 1: projections of opening the new stadium. It was possibly twenty

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01:17:00,920 --> 01:17:04,599
Speaker 1: twenty five, right right, Okay, So within those two years,

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Speaker 1: I've seen a thing on Facebook saying he might go

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01:17:07,160 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 1: to Beaver Stadium in Pennsylvania. Do we really want to

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01:17:10,240 --> 01:17:14,599
Speaker 1: do that? Is that the biggest stadium, closest stadium? Because

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01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:17,120
Speaker 1: also I don't know, I don't know about that email

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01:17:17,120 --> 01:17:19,280
Speaker 1: all bills an outfield. We're gonna travel wherever it is,

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01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:23,479
Speaker 1: but I don't know about Pennsylvania. Well, you're talking about

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01:17:23,479 --> 01:17:29,240
Speaker 1: college station where the penn State penn State Nitney Lions play, right, Well,

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01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:31,120
Speaker 1: I just I'm not sure who plays. That's just how

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01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:33,400
Speaker 1: Beaver Stadium. I looked it up on Google and it

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01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:37,439
Speaker 1: says in Pennsylvania. Believe Yeah, okay, Well anyway, yeah, I

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01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:40,320
Speaker 1: get you, and that it's not unprecedented for an NFL

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01:17:40,400 --> 01:17:43,200
Speaker 1: team to do that. I would say this, Um, I

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01:17:43,280 --> 01:17:48,519
Speaker 1: would say, yeah, who knows. But if the lease is

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01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:51,799
Speaker 1: up in twenty twenty three, that doesn't mean the stadium

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01:17:51,840 --> 01:17:53,560
Speaker 1: is going to be closed off. They can extend the

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Speaker 1: lease for two years and be in by twenty five. Plus.

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01:17:57,400 --> 01:17:59,880
Speaker 1: There's about four or five examples I can think of

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01:18:00,120 --> 01:18:03,840
Speaker 1: now where the new stadium of the NFL team was

1419
01:18:04,040 --> 01:18:07,120
Speaker 1: built in the parking lot of the old stadium while

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01:18:07,160 --> 01:18:09,680
Speaker 1: they still use the old stadium to play games in.

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01:18:10,439 --> 01:18:14,479
Speaker 1: So that's a possibility as well. Yes, early, and then

1422
01:18:14,520 --> 01:18:17,280
Speaker 1: we're talking three to four or five even six years

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01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:20,040
Speaker 1: from now. So we're all just doll. Just wanted to think,

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01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:24,040
Speaker 1: you guys, the brain no appreciate you, bet you and that,

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01:18:24,160 --> 01:18:26,160
Speaker 1: and that'll be all dictated by what, you know, the

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01:18:26,240 --> 01:18:28,040
Speaker 1: new location of the stadium, what's going to look like,

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01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:30,200
Speaker 1: where it's gonna be, how it's going to be. All

1428
01:18:30,240 --> 01:18:33,000
Speaker 1: of that stuff is on the table. So um, right now,

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01:18:33,040 --> 01:18:36,679
Speaker 1: where's Yeah, we all have questions about it. Yeah, it'll

1430
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:41,760
Speaker 1: be interesting to see what happens and if they are

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01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:43,800
Speaker 1: going to build it across the street or on the

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01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:46,640
Speaker 1: same lot or wherever it's going to happen and the

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01:18:46,800 --> 01:18:49,360
Speaker 1: lease runs out twenty twenty three, you extended for two years.

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01:18:49,400 --> 01:18:52,799
Speaker 1: What do you do? Yeah, that to me, that politics

1435
01:18:52,840 --> 01:18:55,759
Speaker 1: of this, because you know Mayor Brown, the Erie County Executive,

1436
01:18:56,040 --> 01:19:00,000
Speaker 1: all those guys, they they're all about greasing the skins.

1437
01:19:00,479 --> 01:19:02,080
Speaker 1: Get this thing fixed. The best way if they only

1438
01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:05,800
Speaker 1: need to extend the least by two years, just do that,

1439
01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:08,280
Speaker 1: and and so you can play in the old one

1440
01:19:08,320 --> 01:19:10,960
Speaker 1: while you're building the new one. Or the only problem

1441
01:19:11,160 --> 01:19:13,920
Speaker 1: is now, if it's a new stadium in Orchard Park

1442
01:19:14,560 --> 01:19:16,600
Speaker 1: on the site of the old stadium right where the

1443
01:19:16,640 --> 01:19:21,800
Speaker 1: old one is, then as a can of worms right there,

1444
01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:24,120
Speaker 1: because then you shut that one down, rip it out,

1445
01:19:24,280 --> 01:19:26,599
Speaker 1: gut it, take it, take the seats out, tear it down,

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01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:30,880
Speaker 1: and start from scratch building a brand new one. Then

1447
01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:34,840
Speaker 1: you're you're in a new stadium for two seasons at least,

1448
01:19:34,960 --> 01:19:40,160
Speaker 1: right you're talking about two full seasons out in another

1449
01:19:40,360 --> 01:19:43,600
Speaker 1: like in Penn State Stadium or Syracuse at the you know,

1450
01:19:44,200 --> 01:19:47,639
Speaker 1: at the Carrier Dome or what wherever you be stadium

1451
01:19:47,680 --> 01:19:49,679
Speaker 1: for all I don't know. That's only got fifty thousand seats.

1452
01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:51,760
Speaker 1: So I think it was Adam who called in and

1453
01:19:51,840 --> 01:19:55,160
Speaker 1: said that don't take my bills away too far. When

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01:19:55,320 --> 01:19:57,920
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is in his prime, and when this team

1455
01:19:58,080 --> 01:20:00,320
Speaker 1: is in their prime, and when when there in this

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01:20:00,400 --> 01:20:02,840
Speaker 1: window where they could be making a Super Bowl. That

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01:20:02,920 --> 01:20:06,760
Speaker 1: would that would suck with the capitol s yes, and

1458
01:20:06,840 --> 01:20:10,920
Speaker 1: that yeah, that would stink. That would really stink. But

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01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:13,920
Speaker 1: that's what we're looking at, you know. And I'll say

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01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:19,400
Speaker 1: this though, Josh goes to his MVP of the league,

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01:20:19,520 --> 01:20:21,320
Speaker 1: MVP of the Super Bowl, Bills, win a super Bowl.

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01:20:22,320 --> 01:20:25,360
Speaker 1: Build whatever you want where, put that thing wherever you want,

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01:20:25,600 --> 01:20:27,320
Speaker 1: and give it all the bells and whistle as you want.

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01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:31,120
Speaker 1: Nobody cares. Just go I here, just put out a

1465
01:20:31,360 --> 01:20:33,439
Speaker 1: tin can with a slot and I'll stick money in it,

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01:20:33,960 --> 01:20:36,360
Speaker 1: you know, to help. Steve will help pay for it.

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01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:38,920
Speaker 1: All right, We've got another caller on the line, Chuck

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01:20:39,040 --> 01:20:41,680
Speaker 1: from Orchard Park. You are on the line with us.

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01:20:42,200 --> 01:20:45,080
Speaker 1: You think the team should be downtown or in Orchard Park?

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Speaker 1: I think ye. The Orchard Park story is that credible? Um?

1471
01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:54,479
Speaker 1: And just to tear the old stadium down, if that's

1472
01:20:54,520 --> 01:20:57,240
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do, that's I don't don't believe. I

1473
01:20:57,400 --> 01:21:01,240
Speaker 1: think what they're doing. Um, I mean the conversation alone.

1474
01:21:01,880 --> 01:21:04,000
Speaker 1: This is what they want. I think they want the conversation.

1475
01:21:05,320 --> 01:21:08,920
Speaker 1: Let's let's not forget the bogus. Our business people successful

1476
01:21:09,080 --> 01:21:12,120
Speaker 1: business people, and they would like a returner in their

1477
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:14,880
Speaker 1: investment every month. I believe. So. I think they're going

1478
01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:18,320
Speaker 1: to have to have an enclosed stadium or retractable some way.

1479
01:21:18,439 --> 01:21:21,120
Speaker 1: But I think all the posturing is if we think

1480
01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:23,640
Speaker 1: about this, if we go in thirty thousand feet, the

1481
01:21:23,800 --> 01:21:26,200
Speaker 1: posturing is for dollars right now. If you think about

1482
01:21:26,200 --> 01:21:28,479
Speaker 1: what's going on in Congress right now, there's trillions of

1483
01:21:28,880 --> 01:21:34,200
Speaker 1: infrastructure dollars that they're working on back rooms, and along

1484
01:21:34,280 --> 01:21:36,120
Speaker 1: with the projects that we already have teed up in

1485
01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:38,760
Speaker 1: this area, the expansion of the Metro. They're going to

1486
01:21:39,240 --> 01:21:43,479
Speaker 1: taking the Metro up to the boulevard. Mall scratch my

1487
01:21:43,520 --> 01:21:45,320
Speaker 1: head at that. But we have a brand new train

1488
01:21:45,400 --> 01:21:51,200
Speaker 1: station in downtown Buffalo. There's money for roads, interstates, all that.

1489
01:21:51,520 --> 01:21:54,920
Speaker 1: I think everybody, you know, we have to make winners

1490
01:21:55,520 --> 01:21:59,840
Speaker 1: of everyone in this town, city, state, county. I think

1491
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:03,000
Speaker 1: that's why it'll stay closer to the city and maybe

1492
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:07,080
Speaker 1: to the first ring suburbs where everybody benefits from it,

1493
01:22:07,240 --> 01:22:09,640
Speaker 1: including of course the owners, So it's going to be

1494
01:22:09,880 --> 01:22:14,240
Speaker 1: a real multi decision. But because everybody's gonna want everybody's money,

1495
01:22:14,560 --> 01:22:17,759
Speaker 1: So you pitch in this state, pitches in this county.

1496
01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:20,640
Speaker 1: Everybody has to be a winner and ever return on

1497
01:22:20,720 --> 01:22:24,680
Speaker 1: the the end investment. And it's interesting all the conversation

1498
01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:28,240
Speaker 1: going on with all these dollars available out there. I

1499
01:22:28,439 --> 01:22:31,160
Speaker 1: think I think that's really about the conversation right now.

1500
01:22:31,439 --> 01:22:33,880
Speaker 1: So Chuck, you don't think you don't believe that where

1501
01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:36,160
Speaker 1: this story came from, about that they heard that it

1502
01:22:36,240 --> 01:22:38,120
Speaker 1: was going to be an open air stadium in Orchard Park.

1503
01:22:38,200 --> 01:22:41,599
Speaker 1: You just flat don't believe it. No, I don't. I don't,

1504
01:22:41,760 --> 01:22:43,920
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't think that's going to be

1505
01:22:45,320 --> 01:22:47,880
Speaker 1: really a productive move. Why I didn't like it to

1506
01:22:47,920 --> 01:22:49,439
Speaker 1: begin I don't. I didn't like it to begin with,

1507
01:22:49,520 --> 01:22:51,439
Speaker 1: and they kind of they've been losing, like you didn't

1508
01:22:51,439 --> 01:22:56,280
Speaker 1: like what to begin with. The Orchard Park Stadium. It's

1509
01:22:56,280 --> 01:22:58,320
Speaker 1: been there for fifty years. Everybody, it's kind of a

1510
01:22:58,880 --> 01:23:02,040
Speaker 1: it's changed now, asn't change your mind. Since I'm gonna

1511
01:23:02,040 --> 01:23:03,479
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna give it up. I

1512
01:23:03,560 --> 01:23:07,840
Speaker 1: was at the very first game out there, so, oh yeah,

1513
01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:09,559
Speaker 1: I get you. I know that it was an as

1514
01:23:09,600 --> 01:23:12,679
Speaker 1: a fiasco that opening game of the of the Bill's tenure.

1515
01:23:12,720 --> 01:23:14,760
Speaker 1: There was a preseason game to begin with, and people

1516
01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:16,960
Speaker 1: couldn't even get to the stadium until the second quarter

1517
01:23:17,080 --> 01:23:20,599
Speaker 1: because of the park, the traffic patterns, everything was all

1518
01:23:20,680 --> 01:23:23,360
Speaker 1: messed up. They had. Absolutely was an absolute train wreck,

1519
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:29,040
Speaker 1: absolutely train Do you know who Herb Mulki is? Why

1520
01:23:29,080 --> 01:23:33,679
Speaker 1: do not? He scored a touchdown before we got into

1521
01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:37,519
Speaker 1: the stadium. I'm the first kickoff? Oh yeah, the opening kickoff?

1522
01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:42,519
Speaker 1: Yeah that I got I missed that. It was still

1523
01:23:42,560 --> 01:23:45,040
Speaker 1: a couple of miles outr But no, I just I

1524
01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:47,840
Speaker 1: just think with the renaissance of Buffalo and everything, I

1525
01:23:47,920 --> 01:23:50,439
Speaker 1: think they're gonna try to play to all those entities.

1526
01:23:50,960 --> 01:23:55,280
Speaker 1: The city of Buffalo, County, state. What do they have

1527
01:23:55,439 --> 01:23:58,400
Speaker 1: money coming in? And I think they can build up

1528
01:23:58,400 --> 01:24:01,080
Speaker 1: the infrastructure to connect at wherever it's going to be,

1529
01:24:01,160 --> 01:24:03,280
Speaker 1: even if it's a few miles out and know they're

1530
01:24:03,320 --> 01:24:06,240
Speaker 1: saying love Joy, it could be up near Niagara County.

1531
01:24:06,280 --> 01:24:08,479
Speaker 1: I mean, there's space all over the place. But I

1532
01:24:08,560 --> 01:24:12,400
Speaker 1: don't I still believe there's a credibility. So Chuck, did

1533
01:24:12,479 --> 01:24:15,120
Speaker 1: you know you know that the Bills have done extensive

1534
01:24:15,200 --> 01:24:20,519
Speaker 1: research and uh uh surveys and studies about not only

1535
01:24:20,840 --> 01:24:24,960
Speaker 1: you know, the politics involved, but also the fan base

1536
01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:28,040
Speaker 1: and the season ticket holders and all of that. And

1537
01:24:28,320 --> 01:24:33,880
Speaker 1: you think, in your experience, there's no way it turns

1538
01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:38,400
Speaker 1: into an open air stadium in Orchard Park. No, Okay,

1539
01:24:38,400 --> 01:24:41,559
Speaker 1: I don't believe that. I truly don't. Okay, good stuff, man.

1540
01:24:41,600 --> 01:24:44,280
Speaker 1: I appreciate thanks for calling. That's appreciate it, and and

1541
01:24:44,400 --> 01:24:46,000
Speaker 1: I know he's right. I mean, this is a time,

1542
01:24:46,080 --> 01:24:47,880
Speaker 1: thanks Chuck. I guess I don't know if there is

1543
01:24:47,920 --> 01:24:51,000
Speaker 1: ever a time where it's not like this. There's a

1544
01:24:51,040 --> 01:24:55,759
Speaker 1: lot of conversation about what's best and his point about

1545
01:24:56,240 --> 01:24:58,040
Speaker 1: this needs to be a place that is going to

1546
01:24:58,120 --> 01:25:06,160
Speaker 1: benefit everyone. Why. I mean, it's I mean, I'm not

1547
01:25:06,200 --> 01:25:09,400
Speaker 1: saying it shouldn't. It would be great, but every like

1548
01:25:09,479 --> 01:25:13,880
Speaker 1: I said a minute ago, every little pocket of you know,

1549
01:25:14,240 --> 01:25:17,000
Speaker 1: run down buildings, and every pocket of this place, this

1550
01:25:17,680 --> 01:25:20,720
Speaker 1: region of Buffalo's kind of downtrodden. He could use a refurbishment.

1551
01:25:20,840 --> 01:25:22,920
Speaker 1: This place is prime because it's kind of vacant right now,

1552
01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:24,800
Speaker 1: Let's put it there, or let's put it out in

1553
01:25:24,920 --> 01:25:26,720
Speaker 1: you know, just a little bit out further. Let's put

1554
01:25:26,720 --> 01:25:28,840
Speaker 1: it where we can put infrastructure to it. Let's put it.

1555
01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:32,800
Speaker 1: The simple fact of the matter is if they just

1556
01:25:32,920 --> 01:25:34,920
Speaker 1: refurbished this place again, all of that goes off the

1557
01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:38,559
Speaker 1: table anyway. And I don't know that as important as

1558
01:25:38,600 --> 01:25:41,240
Speaker 1: the bills are to the region, that it's their responsibility

1559
01:25:41,240 --> 01:25:43,840
Speaker 1: to do that. The guys sitting downtown and the behind

1560
01:25:43,880 --> 01:25:47,519
Speaker 1: the desks that everybody voted for, that's on their plate.

1561
01:25:47,600 --> 01:25:51,040
Speaker 1: It's not on Kim Pegoula, Terry Pegoula's plate. I means,

1562
01:25:51,120 --> 01:25:52,760
Speaker 1: you know, everybody said, well they got them. Well, that's

1563
01:25:52,800 --> 01:25:57,479
Speaker 1: not their responsibility. And they've already done ten tons of

1564
01:25:57,560 --> 01:26:04,320
Speaker 1: work down there. So it's a football team first and foremost.

1565
01:26:04,439 --> 01:26:08,000
Speaker 1: And I know it's really important. And for whatever people

1566
01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:12,280
Speaker 1: think about Orchard Park in today's current and you know

1567
01:26:12,439 --> 01:26:17,600
Speaker 1: this today's current environment, it is iconic and part of

1568
01:26:17,640 --> 01:26:22,000
Speaker 1: the heritage of a two generations of bills fans that

1569
01:26:22,120 --> 01:26:24,519
Speaker 1: are in this building and this piece of property in

1570
01:26:25,040 --> 01:26:28,800
Speaker 1: this part of Buffalo. The trip down or the trip

1571
01:26:28,920 --> 01:26:31,200
Speaker 1: up or the trip over to get to Orchard Park.

1572
01:26:31,479 --> 01:26:35,200
Speaker 1: The infrastructure it can it can eat just as easily

1573
01:26:35,280 --> 01:26:39,479
Speaker 1: be built here as it can downtown and if it's

1574
01:26:39,560 --> 01:26:43,920
Speaker 1: not built here, there's a good reason for that. It's

1575
01:26:44,640 --> 01:26:50,479
Speaker 1: it's not lack of willingness. So wherever they think they're

1576
01:26:50,479 --> 01:26:52,920
Speaker 1: gonna put it, it's gonna be the right place, because

1577
01:26:52,920 --> 01:26:57,320
Speaker 1: they're not going to just like throw a dart and say, well,

1578
01:26:57,360 --> 01:27:00,639
Speaker 1: this neighbor this neighborhood's the worst, so we're gonna put

1579
01:27:00,640 --> 01:27:03,400
Speaker 1: it in that neighborhood or this person, this this neighborhood.

1580
01:27:03,400 --> 01:27:04,920
Speaker 1: We've been trying to figure something out to do with

1581
01:27:05,000 --> 01:27:09,760
Speaker 1: this for fifty years. The bills can fix that, you know, right,

1582
01:27:11,160 --> 01:27:14,280
Speaker 1: you know, so, yeah, I get that. It's I like

1583
01:27:14,479 --> 01:27:17,000
Speaker 1: this spot where it's at right now, only because it's

1584
01:27:17,160 --> 01:27:19,640
Speaker 1: all I've experienced. I get it. I mean, I'm one

1585
01:27:19,680 --> 01:27:21,800
Speaker 1: of the few guys who actually played in the rock pile.

1586
01:27:22,840 --> 01:27:24,800
Speaker 1: I was a charity softball game, but it was it

1587
01:27:24,840 --> 01:27:29,040
Speaker 1: wasn't football. Hey, no, right, so ye close up seventeen

1588
01:27:29,120 --> 01:27:32,120
Speaker 1: years before I showed up. But yeah, there's a lot

1589
01:27:32,200 --> 01:27:34,080
Speaker 1: of generations, a lot of a lot of baggage, and

1590
01:27:34,120 --> 01:27:35,800
Speaker 1: a lot of water under the branch bridge. But man,

1591
01:27:35,880 --> 01:27:39,519
Speaker 1: oh man, there's one guy that chuck. He does not

1592
01:27:39,720 --> 01:27:42,320
Speaker 1: believe it's going to happen. A stadium in Orchard there's Hey,

1593
01:27:42,360 --> 01:27:45,000
Speaker 1: we've talked to a few people that think it's gonna

1594
01:27:45,040 --> 01:27:47,439
Speaker 1: be Buffalo or would like it to be Buffalo. I

1595
01:27:47,479 --> 01:27:50,040
Speaker 1: should say whether they know more than us or not?

1596
01:27:50,200 --> 01:27:52,840
Speaker 1: Who knows? Um. We we'll take one more call before

1597
01:27:52,880 --> 01:27:55,400
Speaker 1: we take a break. All right, We've got someone who's

1598
01:27:55,439 --> 01:27:58,360
Speaker 1: been hanging on the line for quite a while. Shinnica

1599
01:27:58,479 --> 01:28:00,360
Speaker 1: from Buffalo. You are on with the US. What do

1600
01:28:00,439 --> 01:28:03,120
Speaker 1: you think Orchard Park, Buffalo? Do you have an opinion

1601
01:28:03,200 --> 01:28:05,720
Speaker 1: on that or whether it should be open air or

1602
01:28:05,840 --> 01:28:15,479
Speaker 1: retractable roof? Shannica, you're on with us on one Bill's life. Hi. Yes,

1603
01:28:16,200 --> 01:28:21,320
Speaker 1: I believe that the Bills should come back on the

1604
01:28:21,439 --> 01:28:29,479
Speaker 1: cuffs of downtown, heading into the South Buffalo area, where

1605
01:28:29,520 --> 01:28:34,080
Speaker 1: you could finish tearing down that area, rebuild over there.

1606
01:28:34,320 --> 01:28:37,680
Speaker 1: There will be parking, There will be somewhere for all

1607
01:28:37,720 --> 01:28:41,040
Speaker 1: the Bills mafia up under the bridge that's connecting the

1608
01:28:41,160 --> 01:28:45,479
Speaker 1: two bridges, up under that bridge that's connecting to going

1609
01:28:45,640 --> 01:28:50,000
Speaker 1: on the cuffs of South Buffalo. We don't need I

1610
01:28:50,200 --> 01:28:54,519
Speaker 1: love the Bills, but we already have the Buffalo sabers downtown.

1611
01:28:54,720 --> 01:28:58,040
Speaker 1: We're talking about bringing something back that is from Buffalo.

1612
01:28:58,400 --> 01:29:01,880
Speaker 1: The rock Pile. I'm even younger. So fifteen years before,

1613
01:29:02,560 --> 01:29:06,080
Speaker 1: I'm even younger than before that, I wasn't even around.

1614
01:29:06,560 --> 01:29:10,280
Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is fire as the accessibility we

1615
01:29:10,439 --> 01:29:16,200
Speaker 1: have Davntown, we have the where, the shift that we have,

1616
01:29:16,400 --> 01:29:19,599
Speaker 1: the new waterfront area good enough, we have a lot

1617
01:29:19,680 --> 01:29:23,000
Speaker 1: of different things that can bring to the community. And

1618
01:29:23,200 --> 01:29:26,160
Speaker 1: the train it'll be accessible for people to walk and

1619
01:29:26,360 --> 01:29:29,040
Speaker 1: get into train as well. All right, thank you, Shannaga.

1620
01:29:29,120 --> 01:29:34,080
Speaker 1: You know it's amazing because this conversation. Thanks this conversation

1621
01:29:34,320 --> 01:29:36,839
Speaker 1: is the I don't know it was a different conversation

1622
01:29:36,880 --> 01:29:39,840
Speaker 1: because we didn't have social media, don't have Twitter. It's

1623
01:29:39,880 --> 01:29:42,680
Speaker 1: the exact conversation that happened before they decided to put

1624
01:29:42,720 --> 01:29:46,000
Speaker 1: the stadium here. You can bet right it has to be.

1625
01:29:46,680 --> 01:29:49,519
Speaker 1: They were moving out of the rock Pile, which was

1626
01:29:49,600 --> 01:29:52,080
Speaker 1: downtown off it was like, I guess on the east

1627
01:29:52,120 --> 01:29:54,920
Speaker 1: side of Buffalo, I can't even remember now, kind of

1628
01:29:54,960 --> 01:29:59,760
Speaker 1: northeast of the downtown Buffalo. But and everybody thought, well,

1629
01:30:00,120 --> 01:30:04,480
Speaker 1: put it downtown. And there was just the same conversation,

1630
01:30:06,439 --> 01:30:12,400
Speaker 1: the exact same conversation, and now here here we go again.

1631
01:30:14,240 --> 01:30:16,040
Speaker 1: And I just said you and I both said the

1632
01:30:16,080 --> 01:30:19,000
Speaker 1: same thing. I don't care, right, it's no skin off

1633
01:30:19,040 --> 01:30:20,800
Speaker 1: our chin wherever they put this thing, because I'm gonna

1634
01:30:20,840 --> 01:30:23,080
Speaker 1: go and I know my voice is one of about

1635
01:30:23,120 --> 01:30:25,120
Speaker 1: a million voices that are going to be out in

1636
01:30:25,160 --> 01:30:29,000
Speaker 1: the air. But so I'm just saying this. The sooner,

1637
01:30:29,080 --> 01:30:30,639
Speaker 1: the better go ahead. If you build it, they will

1638
01:30:30,680 --> 01:30:34,200
Speaker 1: come exact field of dreams, baby, exactly. We're gonna take

1639
01:30:34,240 --> 01:30:37,080
Speaker 1: a break when we come back more about this conversation

1640
01:30:37,439 --> 01:30:39,599
Speaker 1: and other things related to the Buffalo Bills. To stick

1641
01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:41,880
Speaker 1: with us here on this Monday afternoon One Bill's Live

1642
01:30:41,920 --> 01:30:57,000
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. We are

1643
01:30:57,080 --> 01:31:00,479
Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live, Mattie Glabs, Steve Tasks. It's

1644
01:31:00,600 --> 01:31:05,679
Speaker 1: Monday afternoon. We are approaching our number three of the show,

1645
01:31:05,760 --> 01:31:09,240
Speaker 1: and a lot of it has been the conversation about

1646
01:31:09,280 --> 01:31:12,840
Speaker 1: the report that the Buffalo Bills could have a new

1647
01:31:13,040 --> 01:31:15,600
Speaker 1: stadium in the works, an open air stadium here in

1648
01:31:15,800 --> 01:31:18,280
Speaker 1: Orchard Park. And we're going to go to the tweet sheet,

1649
01:31:18,320 --> 01:31:20,840
Speaker 1: which is brought to you by Corgan Moving Systems, the

1650
01:31:21,000 --> 01:31:26,720
Speaker 1: official movers of the Buffalo Bills. And we got through

1651
01:31:27,120 --> 01:31:29,160
Speaker 1: a couple of these on the tweet sheet where we

1652
01:31:29,200 --> 01:31:31,760
Speaker 1: are going to get to the Bruner is our next one,

1653
01:31:32,720 --> 01:31:35,400
Speaker 1: they say, keep us the mafia right on top of

1654
01:31:35,479 --> 01:31:39,760
Speaker 1: the sideline, like we are now huge advantage. Newer stadiums

1655
01:31:39,840 --> 01:31:43,160
Speaker 1: that I have been in have the stands further back,

1656
01:31:43,920 --> 01:31:47,240
Speaker 1: diluting the crowd noise. Keep it open air. When you

1657
01:31:47,320 --> 01:31:50,559
Speaker 1: come to plane Buffalo, you get all of Buffalo weather

1658
01:31:50,640 --> 01:31:55,560
Speaker 1: included hashtag it might be chilly. That's his answer to

1659
01:31:55,680 --> 01:31:59,760
Speaker 1: what would you want out of a new bill stadium? Yeah,

1660
01:32:00,680 --> 01:32:03,599
Speaker 1: I get it. It's it's a football only stadium here

1661
01:32:03,640 --> 01:32:07,920
Speaker 1: now high marks a football only. You go down to

1662
01:32:08,120 --> 01:32:10,720
Speaker 1: Miami and that's a soccer stadium, so it's wider, the

1663
01:32:11,120 --> 01:32:14,880
Speaker 1: stands are way away from the field. Um hard for

1664
01:32:14,960 --> 01:32:18,559
Speaker 1: them to get involved. Other stadiums of that ILK are

1665
01:32:18,640 --> 01:32:22,240
Speaker 1: the same way. There's a lot more football only stadiums

1666
01:32:22,280 --> 01:32:24,439
Speaker 1: in the league now, but there are also a ton

1667
01:32:24,600 --> 01:32:27,320
Speaker 1: that have the stadium on the sidelines, way back from

1668
01:32:27,360 --> 01:32:31,800
Speaker 1: the sidelines. There's a lot of space and football only.

1669
01:32:33,479 --> 01:32:36,200
Speaker 1: For the geometry of it. The football only, I think

1670
01:32:36,320 --> 01:32:38,599
Speaker 1: is the best way is the way to go unless

1671
01:32:39,400 --> 01:32:42,439
Speaker 1: I mean you can you can think of any a

1672
01:32:42,560 --> 01:32:46,280
Speaker 1: ton of different scenarios where they could have seats that move,

1673
01:32:46,360 --> 01:32:49,160
Speaker 1: you know, move. They could widen them and narrow them.

1674
01:32:50,080 --> 01:32:54,360
Speaker 1: But the viewing angles and high mark right now are fantastic. Um,

1675
01:32:54,640 --> 01:32:58,840
Speaker 1: the elevations just right. You know that the second deck

1676
01:32:59,040 --> 01:33:01,240
Speaker 1: is you know, gives you that an added capacity. Plus

1677
01:33:01,320 --> 01:33:05,280
Speaker 1: they have great seats between between the goal lines. I

1678
01:33:05,360 --> 01:33:10,360
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, they'll theoretically they'll get that right. Some

1679
01:33:11,400 --> 01:33:12,960
Speaker 1: of them don't. I mean, I get it. Some of

1680
01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:17,120
Speaker 1: the new stadiums are like but you say the viewing

1681
01:33:17,160 --> 01:33:19,519
Speaker 1: angles are all perfect, and we've heard that so many

1682
01:33:19,600 --> 01:33:24,680
Speaker 1: times from so many different people. Here's one thing. It

1683
01:33:24,800 --> 01:33:28,920
Speaker 1: gets really loud in there. It could get louder. There's

1684
01:33:28,960 --> 01:33:34,120
Speaker 1: some air where some of that noise escapes. The bowl

1685
01:33:34,280 --> 01:33:38,479
Speaker 1: stadiums get a little bit louder. What do you think

1686
01:33:38,520 --> 01:33:43,240
Speaker 1: about a look like that. Yeah, Seattle's got a stadium

1687
01:33:43,360 --> 01:33:46,040
Speaker 1: set up like that where even though it's open air,

1688
01:33:47,080 --> 01:33:50,240
Speaker 1: it's the roof, the partial roof that's on it. Yeah,

1689
01:33:50,240 --> 01:33:54,000
Speaker 1: it gets loud, really loud. I would like something like that,

1690
01:33:54,160 --> 01:33:56,479
Speaker 1: locking the noise a little bit more. I'm all about it.

1691
01:33:57,320 --> 01:34:00,559
Speaker 1: Build it, build it to win man all right, Kevin

1692
01:34:00,680 --> 01:34:05,439
Speaker 1: says Dome stadium at the minimum, would prefer downtown, where

1693
01:34:05,479 --> 01:34:09,559
Speaker 1: infrastructures such as roads, parking ramps can be used tie

1694
01:34:09,640 --> 01:34:14,000
Speaker 1: into a new convention center as well. People like the

1695
01:34:14,160 --> 01:34:17,479
Speaker 1: downtown idea. It ain't gonna be down this is the

1696
01:34:17,680 --> 01:34:19,680
Speaker 1: report says there's gonna be an orchard park. That's what

1697
01:34:19,760 --> 01:34:22,960
Speaker 1: we're going by. The rest of this is it's all hearsay.

1698
01:34:23,520 --> 01:34:25,479
Speaker 1: That's the only thing we got to go on. It's

1699
01:34:25,520 --> 01:34:27,840
Speaker 1: gonna be open air and an orchard park, theoretically, are

1700
01:34:27,880 --> 01:34:31,960
Speaker 1: the only two characteristics we know of. Could be a

1701
01:34:32,080 --> 01:34:34,160
Speaker 1: chestnut ridge for all we know. I mean, you know,

1702
01:34:34,320 --> 01:34:38,040
Speaker 1: I mean, why don't we all right, so where it

1703
01:34:38,200 --> 01:34:42,360
Speaker 1: is going off this report, right, I get it. The

1704
01:34:42,439 --> 01:34:45,280
Speaker 1: new stadium is always gonna come with a lot of conversation.

1705
01:34:46,680 --> 01:34:52,680
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a big, a big number. The lease

1706
01:34:52,800 --> 01:34:57,240
Speaker 1: is up in twenty twenty three. They're gonna have to

1707
01:34:57,320 --> 01:35:00,280
Speaker 1: have a plan in place well before they break round,

1708
01:35:02,280 --> 01:35:08,840
Speaker 1: and we're all going to know about it. This location

1709
01:35:09,000 --> 01:35:10,799
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense for a lot of reasons.

1710
01:35:11,320 --> 01:35:14,400
Speaker 1: You know where it is now. How they transform it

1711
01:35:14,520 --> 01:35:17,120
Speaker 1: from one stadium to the other is a big question.

1712
01:35:17,200 --> 01:35:19,040
Speaker 1: Whether they tear the old one out and put a

1713
01:35:19,080 --> 01:35:22,120
Speaker 1: new one in or build the new one and then

1714
01:35:22,240 --> 01:35:24,080
Speaker 1: tear the old one up so you can still play

1715
01:35:24,200 --> 01:35:26,280
Speaker 1: games in the old one while you're fixing out the

1716
01:35:26,320 --> 01:35:30,920
Speaker 1: new one. Yeah, there's a lot, there's a lot to

1717
01:35:30,960 --> 01:35:35,440
Speaker 1: be considered. Still, are they just going to completely refurbish

1718
01:35:35,560 --> 01:35:38,479
Speaker 1: the new one and totally totally make it look different

1719
01:35:39,240 --> 01:35:43,000
Speaker 1: with a with a partial roof, partial covered seats, whatever, whatever.

1720
01:35:45,200 --> 01:35:50,320
Speaker 1: There's a lot to think about. And yeah, and we

1721
01:35:50,400 --> 01:35:52,400
Speaker 1: don't know. We don't know, certainly, we all have our

1722
01:35:52,439 --> 01:35:54,719
Speaker 1: opinions obviously, as we've heard from our phone calls today.

1723
01:35:54,760 --> 01:35:58,720
Speaker 1: But man, oh man, I'm I for me and you,

1724
01:35:59,000 --> 01:36:01,080
Speaker 1: I guess too. We both kind of we fell on thing.

1725
01:36:01,160 --> 01:36:06,040
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter, right, It doesn't matter to me. It

1726
01:36:06,280 --> 01:36:09,439
Speaker 1: really doesn't. No, And I don't mean, oh man, I

1727
01:36:09,880 --> 01:36:13,439
Speaker 1: must be we must be soft, because I know this.

1728
01:36:14,800 --> 01:36:16,439
Speaker 1: If I don't have to, I won't sit out there

1729
01:36:16,720 --> 01:36:19,320
Speaker 1: if I don't want to, and if I do, I

1730
01:36:19,400 --> 01:36:22,920
Speaker 1: will other people. You get a season tickets. You're stuck

1731
01:36:22,960 --> 01:36:26,320
Speaker 1: with what you get, right, So I get it. I

1732
01:36:26,439 --> 01:36:28,240
Speaker 1: get it all right. We'll read one more before you

1733
01:36:28,320 --> 01:36:30,719
Speaker 1: take a break. Him with a K says, every seat

1734
01:36:30,760 --> 01:36:33,960
Speaker 1: in the stadium being heated wouldn't be a nice touch.

1735
01:36:34,640 --> 01:36:36,960
Speaker 1: Other than that, I love the current stadium. Also, they

1736
01:36:36,960 --> 01:36:40,360
Speaker 1: should avoid putting sit down restaurants inside because it takes

1737
01:36:40,360 --> 01:36:45,400
Speaker 1: away from the focus of the football game. Wow, seated heats.

1738
01:36:47,080 --> 01:36:52,280
Speaker 1: He didn't see. My gosh, he didn't see on Monday already, guys,

1739
01:36:52,400 --> 01:36:54,519
Speaker 1: I bad, he did, I get. Yeah, that's a good idea.

1740
01:36:54,640 --> 01:36:56,960
Speaker 1: That would probably help the price to your seat quite

1741
01:36:56,960 --> 01:37:00,240
Speaker 1: a bit. You know, it couldn't. Yeah, they could they

1742
01:37:00,360 --> 01:37:04,040
Speaker 1: get around that somehow. That would be really nice if

1743
01:37:04,080 --> 01:37:07,479
Speaker 1: you're going to keep it open air, Yeah, sure it would.

1744
01:37:08,439 --> 01:37:10,599
Speaker 1: And I like the open air thing. I think it's

1745
01:37:10,640 --> 01:37:12,960
Speaker 1: been great. I think the team thrives in at the

1746
01:37:13,040 --> 01:37:15,000
Speaker 1: fans love it on those days. And if they if

1747
01:37:15,040 --> 01:37:16,439
Speaker 1: they don't love it, they don't have to show up,

1748
01:37:16,479 --> 01:37:19,040
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, sell you tickets that game? Yeah,

1749
01:37:19,400 --> 01:37:23,080
Speaker 1: Let somebody who wants to be there go and the

1750
01:37:23,160 --> 01:37:25,040
Speaker 1: team's got to live with the consequences. They'll be games

1751
01:37:25,080 --> 01:37:26,720
Speaker 1: where they won't set out because it's going to be,

1752
01:37:26,960 --> 01:37:30,320
Speaker 1: you know, cruddy out. And I'll say this though, when

1753
01:37:30,360 --> 01:37:34,400
Speaker 1: it's snowy, more people will show up than if it's rainy. Yeah,

1754
01:37:34,600 --> 01:37:38,559
Speaker 1: you know, I remember that Eagles game in twenty nineteen

1755
01:37:39,120 --> 01:37:42,519
Speaker 1: when the Philadelphia Eagles played here. It was rainy and windy,

1756
01:37:42,760 --> 01:37:44,840
Speaker 1: and it was the first game that my family came to.

1757
01:37:45,640 --> 01:37:48,400
Speaker 1: It was like, I think it was early October, so

1758
01:37:48,520 --> 01:37:50,679
Speaker 1: it was still in the window of nice fall weather.

1759
01:37:51,000 --> 01:37:53,280
Speaker 1: And then it was just terrible. And I was like,

1760
01:37:53,439 --> 01:37:57,120
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry you guys. You just had to get

1761
01:37:57,200 --> 01:38:00,840
Speaker 1: through that. You know about that we played, You know,

1762
01:38:01,040 --> 01:38:05,840
Speaker 1: remember I remember that game because I wasn't there. I

1763
01:38:06,040 --> 01:38:11,160
Speaker 1: was in Chicago at Northwestern's homecoming games. The first game

1764
01:38:11,200 --> 01:38:13,200
Speaker 1: I've been to in thirty five years at homecoming, so

1765
01:38:13,280 --> 01:38:16,719
Speaker 1: I went to be it at a Northwestern game better

1766
01:38:16,760 --> 01:38:19,720
Speaker 1: than Buffalo Bills that day. They got beat by A. J. E.

1767
01:38:19,800 --> 01:38:25,680
Speaker 1: Panessa in the Hiawaha, Oh my gosh, I thought. And

1768
01:38:25,880 --> 01:38:26,960
Speaker 1: one of the one of the guys I was with

1769
01:38:27,040 --> 01:38:29,560
Speaker 1: him was at this Guessa guy's pretty good. It was

1770
01:38:29,560 --> 01:38:31,760
Speaker 1: like really he was. Yeah, And I was listening to

1771
01:38:31,880 --> 01:38:36,400
Speaker 1: Murph and Eric Wood on the on the radio and

1772
01:38:36,560 --> 01:38:40,400
Speaker 1: it was it sounded awful. It just sounded all it

1773
01:38:40,479 --> 01:38:42,479
Speaker 1: went from bad to worse on the radio call. I

1774
01:38:42,600 --> 01:38:45,599
Speaker 1: was like, oh gosh, so that's what I remember about

1775
01:38:45,600 --> 01:38:51,120
Speaker 1: that game. Yeah, rain win, no fun in that open

1776
01:38:51,160 --> 01:38:53,160
Speaker 1: hair stadium. But that's what you get if it's going

1777
01:38:53,200 --> 01:38:55,000
Speaker 1: to be open air, and we I guess we'd be

1778
01:38:55,080 --> 01:38:57,720
Speaker 1: okay with it. But we will be back in a

1779
01:38:57,840 --> 01:39:00,599
Speaker 1: couple of minutes. Don't go anywhere here. One Bills Live

1780
01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:04,120
Speaker 1: presented by Clyde Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. We are

1781
01:39:04,280 --> 01:39:06,800
Speaker 1: here for another hour, so stick with us. Seeing a

1782
01:39:06,880 --> 01:39:23,080
Speaker 1: bit at a Steve Tasker who has read all all

1783
01:39:23,160 --> 01:39:25,000
Speaker 1: other fields. Kind of unique. He was kind of a

1784
01:39:25,080 --> 01:39:31,960
Speaker 1: dual roll plighter fret Steve a blimp. We're not even

1785
01:39:32,040 --> 01:39:39,960
Speaker 1: in the straded heere of normalcy. Welcome into One Bills

1786
01:39:40,080 --> 01:39:42,760
Speaker 1: Live for our last hour of the show here on

1787
01:39:42,840 --> 01:39:47,200
Speaker 1: Monday afternoon. Matty Glab alongside Steve Tasker. We've talked a

1788
01:39:47,400 --> 01:39:50,920
Speaker 1: lot about this report that came out about the Buffalo

1789
01:39:51,040 --> 01:39:54,400
Speaker 1: Bills possibly building a new open air stadium here in

1790
01:39:54,600 --> 01:39:57,840
Speaker 1: Orchard Park. We are going to pivot to some other

1791
01:39:58,040 --> 01:40:03,160
Speaker 1: news that came out Josh Allen contract talk that has

1792
01:40:03,200 --> 01:40:06,200
Speaker 1: been so hot cooled down a little bit. You know,

1793
01:40:06,680 --> 01:40:09,080
Speaker 1: now that the players are gone, now that mini camp

1794
01:40:09,479 --> 01:40:13,920
Speaker 1: OTAs are over, haven't talked to Sean McDermott or Brandon

1795
01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:17,360
Speaker 1: Bean or the players recently. We won't talk to him

1796
01:40:17,360 --> 01:40:21,479
Speaker 1: again until training camp. But Jeremy Fowler on Sports Center

1797
01:40:21,640 --> 01:40:26,400
Speaker 1: said yesterday, as was told to me, Look, he Josh

1798
01:40:26,479 --> 01:40:29,840
Speaker 1: Allen knows he's going to get paid eventually. The Bills

1799
01:40:29,880 --> 01:40:32,200
Speaker 1: know he's going to get paid eventually, so neither side

1800
01:40:32,320 --> 01:40:35,160
Speaker 1: is particularly worried about it. I'm told that Alan Love

1801
01:40:35,320 --> 01:40:38,160
Speaker 1: is being in Buffalo enough to where he's willing to

1802
01:40:38,280 --> 01:40:42,280
Speaker 1: structure things. You know, that helps the team a little bit. Certainly,

1803
01:40:42,439 --> 01:40:45,200
Speaker 1: He's not going to take a discount by any stretch.

1804
01:40:45,320 --> 01:40:48,040
Speaker 1: He's a top five quarterback, but he wants them to

1805
01:40:48,200 --> 01:40:51,400
Speaker 1: stay competitive in future years with him in the fold.

1806
01:40:52,240 --> 01:40:57,120
Speaker 1: Makes sense. And you know we've got and the project

1807
01:40:57,200 --> 01:41:00,479
Speaker 1: and there's conjecture all over if if you want to

1808
01:41:00,520 --> 01:41:04,360
Speaker 1: look around for it, he's I think for me, instead

1809
01:41:04,360 --> 01:41:08,120
Speaker 1: of talking numbers, I kind of like talk comparisons. Dak

1810
01:41:08,160 --> 01:41:13,200
Speaker 1: Prescott's no Josh Allen. He's a good player, but the

1811
01:41:13,360 --> 01:41:18,840
Speaker 1: Cowboys would kick Dak Prescott to the curb so fast

1812
01:41:18,920 --> 01:41:23,200
Speaker 1: if they can get Josh Allen. Right. So, and he's

1813
01:41:23,280 --> 01:41:26,840
Speaker 1: making forty million bucks a year for four years, right,

1814
01:41:27,479 --> 01:41:32,360
Speaker 1: That's that's to me, that's the baseline. Lamar Jackson hasn't

1815
01:41:32,360 --> 01:41:34,800
Speaker 1: signed his deal yet. Don't know what that's gonna be.

1816
01:41:35,080 --> 01:41:41,400
Speaker 1: Lamar Deshaun Watson has signed his he is you know,

1817
01:41:41,479 --> 01:41:45,360
Speaker 1: he's in the forty million dollar range. So that's that's

1818
01:41:45,400 --> 01:41:49,000
Speaker 1: where you're looking at. So now they're saying it's been conjectured,

1819
01:41:49,080 --> 01:41:53,280
Speaker 1: and I've got one conjecture in front of me from

1820
01:41:53,360 --> 01:41:56,160
Speaker 1: Tyler Conway the Bleacher Report. He's he's saying, to listen,

1821
01:41:56,280 --> 01:41:58,960
Speaker 1: here we go. So allan if if it depends on

1822
01:41:59,040 --> 01:42:01,519
Speaker 1: what kind of deal we're talking, if it's a Mahomesian deal,

1823
01:42:02,439 --> 01:42:06,360
Speaker 1: like the five hundred million dollars deal, and I don't

1824
01:42:06,400 --> 01:42:11,439
Speaker 1: know that, Like in twenty twenty seven, Pat Mahomes has

1825
01:42:11,479 --> 01:42:18,320
Speaker 1: a sixty million dollars cap hit, right, So most of

1826
01:42:18,400 --> 01:42:20,559
Speaker 1: them say, listen, if it's a four year deal, it's

1827
01:42:20,600 --> 01:42:22,439
Speaker 1: going to be in one hundred and sixty four hundred

1828
01:42:22,479 --> 01:42:25,160
Speaker 1: and sixty five million dollars one hundred maybe one hundred

1829
01:42:25,160 --> 01:42:27,920
Speaker 1: and sixty five hundred and seventy million dollars range for

1830
01:42:28,000 --> 01:42:30,880
Speaker 1: a four year deal, but like one hundred and twenty

1831
01:42:30,920 --> 01:42:33,800
Speaker 1: eight million of it will be absolutely guaranteed. So when

1832
01:42:33,840 --> 01:42:36,160
Speaker 1: he signs it, somewhere down the line, he's getting that money.

1833
01:42:36,200 --> 01:42:38,320
Speaker 1: How they structure it, they can go year to year

1834
01:42:38,360 --> 01:42:39,840
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, we're gonna put it in bonus this

1835
01:42:40,000 --> 01:42:42,320
Speaker 1: year and stretch it out, or we're gonna add it

1836
01:42:42,400 --> 01:42:45,920
Speaker 1: into a couple extra years on the contract or whatever whatever.

1837
01:42:46,680 --> 01:42:49,120
Speaker 1: So I think the real term is this, how much

1838
01:42:49,240 --> 01:42:51,920
Speaker 1: is guaranteed for Josh. I'm talking about Josh Allen, what

1839
01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:56,519
Speaker 1: he's thinking, how much you're gonna guarantee me? And how

1840
01:42:56,600 --> 01:42:58,200
Speaker 1: long am I going to be tied up before I

1841
01:42:58,240 --> 01:43:00,600
Speaker 1: get another swing at the can. So if it's a

1842
01:43:00,640 --> 01:43:02,680
Speaker 1: four year deal, you know that makes some sense to me.

1843
01:43:02,760 --> 01:43:05,840
Speaker 1: If it starts in twenty twenty three, He's got this

1844
01:43:05,960 --> 01:43:08,680
Speaker 1: year and next year on his rookie deal, and he's

1845
01:43:08,720 --> 01:43:10,920
Speaker 1: guaranteed twenty three million in the fifth year of his

1846
01:43:11,000 --> 01:43:15,080
Speaker 1: rookie deal. So if if it gets tacked on the

1847
01:43:15,240 --> 01:43:19,120
Speaker 1: end of that in four years, that's six years for Josh.

1848
01:43:20,120 --> 01:43:21,640
Speaker 1: But if they throw the last two years of his

1849
01:43:21,720 --> 01:43:24,280
Speaker 1: rookie deal out and sign it and starts now, that's

1850
01:43:24,360 --> 01:43:26,439
Speaker 1: four years from now and he gets another swing at

1851
01:43:26,479 --> 01:43:29,240
Speaker 1: it after the new cap is under under way. So

1852
01:43:29,800 --> 01:43:31,640
Speaker 1: that may be a little bit of tension between the

1853
01:43:31,720 --> 01:43:33,439
Speaker 1: Bills and Josh, like, all right, when are you gonna

1854
01:43:33,479 --> 01:43:36,120
Speaker 1: be when are we gonna have to sit down again, right,

1855
01:43:37,720 --> 01:43:39,479
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be sitting down next year with you.

1856
01:43:39,600 --> 01:43:41,120
Speaker 1: The next time we sit down, we're gonna be with

1857
01:43:41,160 --> 01:43:45,040
Speaker 1: a two time MVP and a super Bowl champion. He

1858
01:43:45,120 --> 01:43:47,080
Speaker 1: wants to sit down. Sign me up for that, by

1859
01:43:47,120 --> 01:43:49,160
Speaker 1: the way, I mean, it's not my money, but still

1860
01:43:49,240 --> 01:43:51,559
Speaker 1: that's what you're talking about. The Bills want to hang

1861
01:43:51,600 --> 01:43:53,760
Speaker 1: on to him for longer, sign him for longer. Josh

1862
01:43:53,880 --> 01:43:56,360
Speaker 1: is gonna want to have those talks sooner than the

1863
01:43:56,400 --> 01:43:58,800
Speaker 1: Bills will. Yeah, it's simple. If the Bills want to

1864
01:43:58,800 --> 01:44:00,320
Speaker 1: sign him to him a home's deal, like a ten

1865
01:44:00,400 --> 01:44:05,200
Speaker 1: year deal for four hundred million, forty million a year,

1866
01:44:05,360 --> 01:44:09,000
Speaker 1: because by the end of that forty millions gonna be

1867
01:44:09,080 --> 01:44:12,599
Speaker 1: like we got Yeah, that's like us not even a weekend.

1868
01:44:12,640 --> 01:44:14,360
Speaker 1: That's not a long change. Yeah, that's not even a

1869
01:44:14,400 --> 01:44:17,280
Speaker 1: long weekend in Vegas for us. Man, let's go. So

1870
01:44:17,560 --> 01:44:19,479
Speaker 1: they'll you know, that's if you get to that point,

1871
01:44:19,560 --> 01:44:22,599
Speaker 1: then it's cheap. But that's you know, it's a long

1872
01:44:22,680 --> 01:44:24,880
Speaker 1: way off. And the other part of the conversation is

1873
01:44:24,920 --> 01:44:26,479
Speaker 1: what is the cap going to look like in four

1874
01:44:26,560 --> 01:44:29,120
Speaker 1: years from now? We know that this past year and

1875
01:44:29,200 --> 01:44:34,600
Speaker 1: this year cap not that much because of COVID. And

1876
01:44:34,720 --> 01:44:36,840
Speaker 1: then we see this new TV deal that's going to

1877
01:44:36,960 --> 01:44:40,880
Speaker 1: kick in into place that is going to be huge money,

1878
01:44:40,960 --> 01:44:44,519
Speaker 1: and that's going to bump the cap up quite a bit. Yes,

1879
01:44:45,080 --> 01:44:47,640
Speaker 1: big time, And so how does that? Here's packed some

1880
01:44:47,800 --> 01:44:50,519
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that need to sign some new deals. There are

1881
01:44:50,600 --> 01:44:54,040
Speaker 1: mechanisms in place between the NFL Players Association and the league,

1882
01:44:54,120 --> 01:44:58,080
Speaker 1: the union, and the ownership that they they don't want

1883
01:44:58,120 --> 01:45:02,439
Speaker 1: to ride this roller coaster with a cap because general

1884
01:45:02,479 --> 01:45:04,280
Speaker 1: managers and coaches that you don't know who's going to

1885
01:45:04,280 --> 01:45:08,080
Speaker 1: be available, and they want they want gentle movement, which

1886
01:45:08,120 --> 01:45:11,160
Speaker 1: is why they put a floor on the drop for

1887
01:45:11,320 --> 01:45:14,360
Speaker 1: the cap. This year. It was it got chopped by

1888
01:45:14,400 --> 01:45:17,680
Speaker 1: thirty million bucks, which is huge. It could have been

1889
01:45:17,720 --> 01:45:20,800
Speaker 1: a lot more, but they put a safety net in

1890
01:45:21,960 --> 01:45:24,439
Speaker 1: and they borrowed against future earnings and that kind of thing,

1891
01:45:24,479 --> 01:45:26,040
Speaker 1: and they're going to pay that back. So when the

1892
01:45:26,200 --> 01:45:28,400
Speaker 1: cap does come back, it's not going to go from

1893
01:45:28,479 --> 01:45:30,599
Speaker 1: like two hundred million or one hundred and nine whatever

1894
01:45:30,640 --> 01:45:33,040
Speaker 1: it is, one hundred ninety eight million now, it's not

1895
01:45:33,080 --> 01:45:34,880
Speaker 1: going to go from one hundred and ninety eight to

1896
01:45:35,040 --> 01:45:37,639
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty it will go from one ninety

1897
01:45:37,640 --> 01:45:42,679
Speaker 1: eight to two ten or two fifteen because they still

1898
01:45:42,720 --> 01:45:44,640
Speaker 1: have to pay back the money they lost to them

1899
01:45:44,720 --> 01:45:47,519
Speaker 1: they borrowed on themselves, right. Plus, they don't want it

1900
01:45:47,560 --> 01:45:50,000
Speaker 1: to go from two hundred to two thirty because the

1901
01:45:50,080 --> 01:45:52,640
Speaker 1: year after that it might go to two twenty for

1902
01:45:52,760 --> 01:45:56,320
Speaker 1: whatever reason. And if you know now, they're back right

1903
01:45:56,360 --> 01:45:58,760
Speaker 1: back to square one, right. So what they'll do is

1904
01:45:58,760 --> 01:46:01,439
Speaker 1: they put mechanisms in play so that the cap will

1905
01:46:01,560 --> 01:46:05,080
Speaker 1: move in the generally same direction without too much up

1906
01:46:05,200 --> 01:46:07,800
Speaker 1: or down, so that general managers can sign the long

1907
01:46:07,960 --> 01:46:10,920
Speaker 1: term deals and not signed a guy like Julio Jones

1908
01:46:10,960 --> 01:46:12,880
Speaker 1: in two years they're like, oh, well, we can't afford

1909
01:46:12,960 --> 01:46:16,479
Speaker 1: you now because the cap dropped. Those kind of things

1910
01:46:16,640 --> 01:46:21,719
Speaker 1: are crushers for organizations because you're losing tremendously talented players

1911
01:46:22,120 --> 01:46:23,760
Speaker 1: that it takes you a long time to groom and

1912
01:46:23,840 --> 01:46:27,880
Speaker 1: to find, and you're losing them because of the an

1913
01:46:27,960 --> 01:46:30,800
Speaker 1: unpredictable cap number. So they want to make the cap

1914
01:46:30,840 --> 01:46:33,559
Speaker 1: as predictable as possible, so it's not gonna it'll jump up,

1915
01:46:35,000 --> 01:46:36,960
Speaker 1: but it's still not going to jump up, you know,

1916
01:46:37,920 --> 01:46:40,439
Speaker 1: by thirty million dollars that they got chopped this year.

1917
01:46:40,880 --> 01:46:45,600
Speaker 1: I do like that he, according to Jeremy Fowler, is

1918
01:46:45,720 --> 01:46:49,160
Speaker 1: thinking in terms of, hey, I want my team to

1919
01:46:49,200 --> 01:46:51,719
Speaker 1: stay competitive in the future while I'm on this team,

1920
01:46:51,880 --> 01:46:55,920
Speaker 1: so I want a good number. But it doesn't need

1921
01:46:55,960 --> 01:47:00,040
Speaker 1: to be astronomical. It can be something within the in

1922
01:47:00,160 --> 01:47:02,760
Speaker 1: know that these quarterbacks are getting paid in because I

1923
01:47:02,920 --> 01:47:05,560
Speaker 1: also want to make sure there's enough money to go

1924
01:47:05,680 --> 01:47:10,080
Speaker 1: around for my teammates, so players like maybe Stefan Diggs

1925
01:47:10,360 --> 01:47:13,040
Speaker 1: or Gabriel Davis can be here for a while and

1926
01:47:13,200 --> 01:47:16,840
Speaker 1: not have to leave Buffalo because we paid Josh Allen

1927
01:47:17,280 --> 01:47:19,439
Speaker 1: a crap ton of money and now we can't afford

1928
01:47:19,479 --> 01:47:23,559
Speaker 1: anybody else. Yeah, and the projection for this that they're

1929
01:47:23,560 --> 01:47:27,320
Speaker 1: saying about Josh right now, with Dak Prescott's one hundred

1930
01:47:27,320 --> 01:47:31,160
Speaker 1: and sixty million dollar contract and a four year extension

1931
01:47:33,120 --> 01:47:37,880
Speaker 1: with Josh, you talk about the five major quarterback statistics,

1932
01:47:37,960 --> 01:47:40,639
Speaker 1: Josh beats Dac and all of them, and Josh got

1933
01:47:41,000 --> 01:47:45,680
Speaker 1: four years, sixty million dollars. So at least Josh's got

1934
01:47:45,760 --> 01:47:48,280
Speaker 1: to get, you know, four years, one hundred and sixty

1935
01:47:48,320 --> 01:47:50,559
Speaker 1: four million and guarantee about one hundred and twenty eight

1936
01:47:50,640 --> 01:47:57,519
Speaker 1: million of it. That's what this guy from bleacher report Connor, No,

1937
01:47:57,640 --> 01:48:02,240
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. This one is Maurice Moten who did this,

1938
01:48:03,120 --> 01:48:08,120
Speaker 1: So you know that that's what you're looking at. How

1939
01:48:08,160 --> 01:48:10,000
Speaker 1: they're going to structure it so that they can stay

1940
01:48:10,080 --> 01:48:14,040
Speaker 1: competitive and not get slammed by There might be a

1941
01:48:14,120 --> 01:48:16,600
Speaker 1: team friendly aspect to it. With how we saw that

1942
01:48:16,760 --> 01:48:19,640
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes deal, I think that Patrick Mahomes deal was

1943
01:48:19,720 --> 01:48:22,720
Speaker 1: a window into how a lot of these if you're

1944
01:48:22,720 --> 01:48:24,400
Speaker 1: going to do a long term like that, a lot

1945
01:48:24,479 --> 01:48:27,240
Speaker 1: of these long term deals could look like maybe not

1946
01:48:27,439 --> 01:48:30,320
Speaker 1: even as long as Patrick Mahomes's deal, but the six

1947
01:48:30,400 --> 01:48:34,200
Speaker 1: to eight year window where when you expect to need it,

1948
01:48:34,400 --> 01:48:36,880
Speaker 1: that number drops a little bit, and then when you

1949
01:48:37,000 --> 01:48:40,200
Speaker 1: expect to maybe not need it as much, then that

1950
01:48:40,760 --> 01:48:43,760
Speaker 1: quarterback makes bank that season. There has been a lot

1951
01:48:43,800 --> 01:48:46,360
Speaker 1: of speculation and Russell Wilson started trying to get this

1952
01:48:46,680 --> 01:48:51,200
Speaker 1: done in his contract negotiations that a quarterback will say,

1953
01:48:51,240 --> 01:48:52,840
Speaker 1: I don't care what the cap is, I don't care

1954
01:48:52,920 --> 01:48:55,599
Speaker 1: your problems. You give me this percentage of the cap,

1955
01:48:55,720 --> 01:48:58,080
Speaker 1: whatever the cap is. You give me seventeen to twenty

1956
01:48:58,120 --> 01:49:00,719
Speaker 1: percent of it, or twenty percent of it or seventeen

1957
01:49:00,800 --> 01:49:03,479
Speaker 1: point five percent of the cap, and then you've got

1958
01:49:03,520 --> 01:49:05,560
Speaker 1: the rest of it to spin on everybody else and

1959
01:49:05,760 --> 01:49:09,000
Speaker 1: do that every year. Teams have not gone for that

1960
01:49:09,720 --> 01:49:11,880
Speaker 1: just yet, and there's probably reasons for that as well,

1961
01:49:12,840 --> 01:49:17,200
Speaker 1: but because it's hard to anticipate exactly where it's going

1962
01:49:17,240 --> 01:49:20,560
Speaker 1: to be. But that's where teams are headed, and the

1963
01:49:20,680 --> 01:49:23,960
Speaker 1: quarterback and say, you know, I'll help you out if

1964
01:49:24,000 --> 01:49:26,360
Speaker 1: you want, but you've got to give me that percentage

1965
01:49:26,360 --> 01:49:33,519
Speaker 1: of the cap. I think the structure of Mahome's contract

1966
01:49:33,560 --> 01:49:36,800
Speaker 1: that we've talked about is really fascinating because it does

1967
01:49:36,960 --> 01:49:39,720
Speaker 1: give the team freedom before it kicks in for him.

1968
01:49:40,400 --> 01:49:43,760
Speaker 1: And like I said, it's twenty twenty seven before he

1969
01:49:43,880 --> 01:49:47,040
Speaker 1: gets a big chunk of cash, and by twenty twenty seven,

1970
01:49:48,240 --> 01:49:50,200
Speaker 1: who knows what it's going to look like. Now he's

1971
01:49:50,200 --> 01:49:53,160
Speaker 1: gonna get it. Maybe that big chunk could be more

1972
01:49:53,200 --> 01:49:55,720
Speaker 1: of a regular chunk by then. Yeah, that big chunk,

1973
01:49:55,800 --> 01:49:59,560
Speaker 1: maybe you know a little something for the effort, you know,

1974
01:50:00,720 --> 01:50:04,519
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that his willingness to do that.

1975
01:50:05,760 --> 01:50:07,599
Speaker 1: We saw it with Tom Brady and maybe that's where

1976
01:50:07,640 --> 01:50:10,240
Speaker 1: Mahomes got the idea, I'll be willing to take a

1977
01:50:10,280 --> 01:50:12,519
Speaker 1: little bit less so you have more money to spend elsewhere.

1978
01:50:15,080 --> 01:50:17,519
Speaker 1: Certainly it helps, no question about it, and it worked

1979
01:50:17,560 --> 01:50:22,040
Speaker 1: for the Patriots for a long long time. And there's

1980
01:50:22,200 --> 01:50:24,680
Speaker 1: I don't know how rich you gotta be before it's

1981
01:50:24,680 --> 01:50:27,000
Speaker 1: too rich, or how rich you gotta before it's not

1982
01:50:27,160 --> 01:50:29,040
Speaker 1: rich enough. I think I'll have all of us have

1983
01:50:29,160 --> 01:50:32,200
Speaker 1: an idea about that. But most of the numbers these

1984
01:50:32,280 --> 01:50:35,000
Speaker 1: guys are talking about, even when they're you know, they're

1985
01:50:35,040 --> 01:50:37,800
Speaker 1: going below market or life changing. Yeah, and you can

1986
01:50:37,880 --> 01:50:41,760
Speaker 1: expect Josh and other players on this team who are

1987
01:50:41,800 --> 01:50:44,800
Speaker 1: on the come up who will deserve a new contract

1988
01:50:44,880 --> 01:50:47,320
Speaker 1: or an extension or more money, some of the younger

1989
01:50:47,400 --> 01:50:52,000
Speaker 1: guys to sign some awesome deals with some companies out there.

1990
01:50:53,080 --> 01:50:56,880
Speaker 1: We know that Stefan Diggs the summer or the spring,

1991
01:50:56,920 --> 01:51:01,800
Speaker 1: I should say, maybe signed a deal with Jordans that's monumental.

1992
01:51:01,920 --> 01:51:04,439
Speaker 1: That is not a lot of people get to do

1993
01:51:04,600 --> 01:51:07,320
Speaker 1: something like that. And I would guess that Josh Allen

1994
01:51:07,400 --> 01:51:09,320
Speaker 1: is going to have the ability, based on his play

1995
01:51:09,360 --> 01:51:13,479
Speaker 1: this past season and hopefully seasons to come. We'll be

1996
01:51:13,560 --> 01:51:16,080
Speaker 1: able to make some great money on the side by

1997
01:51:16,280 --> 01:51:20,960
Speaker 1: partnering with brands or companies across the country. And it's

1998
01:51:21,000 --> 01:51:23,600
Speaker 1: cool when someone in Buffalo gets to do that. This

1999
01:51:23,800 --> 01:51:26,479
Speaker 1: is a smaller market team, and to see someone like

2000
01:51:26,640 --> 01:51:30,479
Speaker 1: Steph or someone like Josh Partner with an iconic and

2001
01:51:31,360 --> 01:51:36,599
Speaker 1: a brand, an as symbol that's recognized by the entire world,

2002
01:51:36,720 --> 01:51:40,439
Speaker 1: not just the country in a way kind of puts

2003
01:51:40,479 --> 01:51:43,960
Speaker 1: Buffalo on the map. Yeah, it certainly says something about

2004
01:51:43,960 --> 01:51:46,080
Speaker 1: what they've assembled here in the talent they've assembled here

2005
01:51:46,080 --> 01:51:50,800
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. They got a we've been chewing on for months.

2006
01:51:51,680 --> 01:51:54,800
Speaker 1: They're good here and I don't care whether people think

2007
01:51:54,880 --> 01:51:57,360
Speaker 1: they're taking a step back. They're good and they're getting better.

2008
01:51:58,120 --> 01:52:00,719
Speaker 1: They're getting better the guys they've drafted, the free agents

2009
01:52:00,760 --> 01:52:04,320
Speaker 1: they brought in everywhere on the roster, there's gonna be

2010
01:52:04,400 --> 01:52:07,080
Speaker 1: real competent. Forget about guys who played here last year.

2011
01:52:07,200 --> 01:52:10,880
Speaker 1: That's not guaranteed. Ask Quentin Spain, you know, ask those

2012
01:52:10,960 --> 01:52:13,960
Speaker 1: guys about who you got to earn it or you

2013
01:52:14,040 --> 01:52:17,320
Speaker 1: don't get it. It's really fact here and they have

2014
01:52:17,439 --> 01:52:20,599
Speaker 1: gotten better just by the fact they've brought in guys

2015
01:52:20,640 --> 01:52:23,599
Speaker 1: that think they can play right now for a team

2016
01:52:23,640 --> 01:52:25,320
Speaker 1: that went to the a FC Championship Game, they've got

2017
01:52:25,360 --> 01:52:27,439
Speaker 1: guys who think they can break into the lineup. And

2018
01:52:27,479 --> 01:52:29,400
Speaker 1: we've said it's gonna be hard for rookies to do that.

2019
01:52:30,720 --> 01:52:32,400
Speaker 1: They brought in some pretty good rookies to see if

2020
01:52:32,400 --> 01:52:37,000
Speaker 1: find out and to find out what they've assembled here

2021
01:52:38,040 --> 01:52:40,880
Speaker 1: and the accolades that like Steph Diggs has gotten by

2022
01:52:40,920 --> 01:52:46,120
Speaker 1: getting a national company to sign him. It says also

2023
01:52:46,200 --> 01:52:48,920
Speaker 1: something about the about the foreseeable future. I mean, they

2024
01:52:48,960 --> 01:52:51,960
Speaker 1: expect this team to be in the conversation and on

2025
01:52:52,160 --> 01:52:55,439
Speaker 1: national games and for a long time, for a handful

2026
01:52:55,439 --> 01:52:58,160
Speaker 1: of years ahead. So it'll be fun. Yeah. I mean

2027
01:52:58,200 --> 01:53:00,840
Speaker 1: we saw the schedule come out. They've got some great

2028
01:53:00,920 --> 01:53:03,960
Speaker 1: primetime games and the option for some of the games

2029
01:53:04,080 --> 01:53:07,800
Speaker 1: later in the season to become primetime games. Another Thanksgiving

2030
01:53:07,840 --> 01:53:13,559
Speaker 1: game this year in New Orleans in New Orleans, so cool. Yeah.

2031
01:53:15,000 --> 01:53:18,200
Speaker 1: We last year was weird because we didn't get to travel.

2032
01:53:19,000 --> 01:53:23,280
Speaker 1: Usually on most teams they travel. They got to travel

2033
01:53:23,320 --> 01:53:27,080
Speaker 1: like what two hundred people, right at least? Oh yeah,

2034
01:53:27,280 --> 01:53:32,000
Speaker 1: last year was like eighty. Yeah. It was like the coaches,

2035
01:53:32,520 --> 01:53:35,720
Speaker 1: the medical staff to have to be going, right, it was.

2036
01:53:35,960 --> 01:53:41,839
Speaker 1: It was like equipment, coaches, medical players, period, no media,

2037
01:53:42,000 --> 01:53:45,560
Speaker 1: no executives, no nothing. Nobody traveled with those guys. And

2038
01:53:45,720 --> 01:53:48,200
Speaker 1: I think, let's face it, I think it was kind

2039
01:53:48,200 --> 01:53:50,519
Speaker 1: of good for the football end of it. I think

2040
01:53:50,560 --> 01:53:52,720
Speaker 1: that the coaching staffs around the league kind of like

2041
01:53:53,000 --> 01:53:55,000
Speaker 1: that's good, not having all these extra faces on the

2042
01:53:55,080 --> 01:53:56,800
Speaker 1: planes and stuff, and I just kind of like it.

2043
01:53:57,720 --> 01:53:59,000
Speaker 1: We don't know, if you I don't even know if

2044
01:53:59,000 --> 01:54:01,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna be able to travel this year, as you know.

2045
01:54:02,120 --> 01:54:06,680
Speaker 1: A radio crew, yeah, and I whoever that crew is

2046
01:54:07,240 --> 01:54:12,599
Speaker 1: TV radio preseason, I do, TV, I don't, I don't.

2047
01:54:13,800 --> 01:54:15,920
Speaker 1: We still don't know. It looks like it's gonna be

2048
01:54:15,960 --> 01:54:18,439
Speaker 1: way back to normal, though, because if we got one

2049
01:54:18,479 --> 01:54:21,360
Speaker 1: hundred percent capacity to wear a mask and it's three

2050
01:54:21,439 --> 01:54:24,840
Speaker 1: months away, we got a chance to get back on

2051
01:54:24,920 --> 01:54:29,200
Speaker 1: the road, right man. I hope. So I was. I

2052
01:54:29,320 --> 01:54:32,000
Speaker 1: was looking forward to that postseason. I was looking forward

2053
01:54:32,080 --> 01:54:35,040
Speaker 1: to being able to travel for that. Unfortunately we couldn't.

2054
01:54:36,120 --> 01:54:39,560
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm here doing the show after the game, um,

2055
01:54:40,320 --> 01:54:43,120
Speaker 1: you know, which is awesome to do, an awesome to

2056
01:54:43,480 --> 01:54:45,800
Speaker 1: host it from here, but to be able to maybe

2057
01:54:45,880 --> 01:54:48,320
Speaker 1: be on the road in the playoffs or beyond would

2058
01:54:48,360 --> 01:54:51,560
Speaker 1: be so much fun. But we're gonna take a quick

2059
01:54:51,760 --> 01:54:54,640
Speaker 1: break when we come back here wrapping up the show

2060
01:54:54,720 --> 01:54:58,280
Speaker 1: with thirty minutes left on this Monday afternoon, so don't

2061
01:54:58,320 --> 01:55:01,640
Speaker 1: go anywhere here. One Bills Live, presented by Clyde Health

2062
01:55:01,720 --> 01:55:05,120
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio. It is pouring right now. We

2063
01:55:05,160 --> 01:55:18,960
Speaker 1: can hear it inside, all right. It's turned into a

2064
01:55:19,360 --> 01:55:23,080
Speaker 1: rainy Monday afternoon here in Orchard Park. But we're holding

2065
01:55:23,120 --> 01:55:26,800
Speaker 1: down the fort here at one Bill's driving inside West

2066
01:55:27,000 --> 01:55:30,520
Speaker 1: Insider Seneca Studio. But holy moly, during the break, I

2067
01:55:30,600 --> 01:55:32,840
Speaker 1: went outside and I could have sworn I saw the

2068
01:55:33,080 --> 01:55:36,040
Speaker 1: Gilligan and the skipper in the ss Minnows sailing. But

2069
01:55:36,200 --> 01:55:40,000
Speaker 1: it was so bad out. And usually you can hear

2070
01:55:40,040 --> 01:55:42,839
Speaker 1: the wind and the rain pretty good in the studio,

2071
01:55:43,480 --> 01:55:46,440
Speaker 1: but it's not usually annoying. It's to the point where

2072
01:55:46,560 --> 01:55:49,000
Speaker 1: I'm like, I feel like I'm talking over the rain.

2073
01:55:49,200 --> 01:55:53,040
Speaker 1: We are just sitting six feet apart. We're like, we

2074
01:55:53,200 --> 01:55:55,520
Speaker 1: have to talk over the rain pounding on the flat

2075
01:55:55,640 --> 01:55:59,240
Speaker 1: roof here. And it hit like a light switch. To man,

2076
01:55:59,320 --> 01:56:01,520
Speaker 1: it started. It was like, bang, yeah, we're about to

2077
01:56:01,520 --> 01:56:04,120
Speaker 1: go to break. I was like, what is that. Oh, oh, well,

2078
01:56:04,480 --> 01:56:08,680
Speaker 1: here's the rain. We are going to close out our

2079
01:56:08,720 --> 01:56:10,520
Speaker 1: tweet sheet. But before we do that, I want to

2080
01:56:10,560 --> 01:56:13,360
Speaker 1: go back to the phone lines. We're talking about the

2081
01:56:13,440 --> 01:56:16,280
Speaker 1: report that came out that the Buffalo Bills could be

2082
01:56:16,600 --> 01:56:20,000
Speaker 1: building a new stadium in Orchard Park as their current

2083
01:56:20,160 --> 01:56:23,800
Speaker 1: lease expires in twenty twenty three. Mark from West Seneca

2084
01:56:23,840 --> 01:56:26,480
Speaker 1: has been hanging on the line for almost an hour.

2085
01:56:26,720 --> 01:56:28,960
Speaker 1: So Mark, you are on with us now on one

2086
01:56:29,040 --> 01:56:32,440
Speaker 1: Bills Live. What is your opinion on the possibility of

2087
01:56:32,480 --> 01:56:34,640
Speaker 1: a new stadium here. I didn't know I was on

2088
01:56:34,760 --> 01:56:37,200
Speaker 1: the line that long. I'm listening to you guys. Oh

2089
01:56:37,320 --> 01:56:44,400
Speaker 1: my gosh, Well time flies then? How well? So many

2090
01:56:44,480 --> 01:56:46,080
Speaker 1: things have been said that I'd like to respond to,

2091
01:56:46,160 --> 01:56:48,760
Speaker 1: but I know I've limited time. But the one thing

2092
01:56:48,880 --> 01:56:53,320
Speaker 1: that I'd like to respond to is there was a

2093
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Speaker 1: comment made something about the everybody in the area should

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Speaker 1: benefit from a new stadium. And Eve, I love you

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01:57:01,960 --> 01:57:04,480
Speaker 1: like a brother and I've been one. I mean, I'm

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01:57:04,520 --> 01:57:08,600
Speaker 1: a lifelong gil Santo. I never disagree with you. I said,

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01:57:08,880 --> 01:57:13,320
Speaker 1: you said you comment respond to that was why. And

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01:57:14,160 --> 01:57:16,360
Speaker 1: before I go on, I want to say Chuck in

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01:57:16,520 --> 01:57:20,200
Speaker 1: Orchard Park running for Erie County executive because that's the

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01:57:20,360 --> 01:57:23,920
Speaker 1: kind of thinking we need in this whole thing. I

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01:57:24,120 --> 01:57:27,120
Speaker 1: was around when they messed up and didn't put the

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Speaker 1: stadium in Lancaster and then they were going to do

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01:57:30,320 --> 01:57:32,920
Speaker 1: it in Lancaster and they didn't do it downtown, and

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01:57:32,960 --> 01:57:35,320
Speaker 1: they put it in Orchard Park. Don't get me wrong,

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01:57:35,600 --> 01:57:38,160
Speaker 1: I was a thirty five years season ticket holder, missed

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01:57:38,200 --> 01:57:40,960
Speaker 1: one game in all those years. I love I call

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Speaker 1: it rich Stadium. I love that stadium. It's one of

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Speaker 1: the best stadiums in the league. But that stadium needs

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01:57:49,040 --> 01:57:54,120
Speaker 1: to be downtown because our city is going through a renaissance.

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Speaker 1: And I know the Bills have no responsibility in this.

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01:57:58,160 --> 01:58:01,520
Speaker 1: I know the NFL has no responsibility in this, but

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Speaker 1: our civic leaders do. And one of the great political

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Speaker 1: mistakes they ever made was putting that thing not in

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Speaker 1: the downtown area. We only have once or twice in

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Speaker 1: a lifetime to really rejuvenate and change and transform a

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01:58:16,440 --> 01:58:20,080
Speaker 1: city and a large part of it. It takes decades

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01:58:20,520 --> 01:58:24,120
Speaker 1: to change areas of a city, and in one fell swoop,

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01:58:24,160 --> 01:58:27,720
Speaker 1: in a couple of years, we could do that. And lastly,

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Speaker 1: on this point, the burden is going to fall financially

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Speaker 1: on Western New York. In the state we're dealing with

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01:58:35,840 --> 01:58:38,400
Speaker 1: the NFL bully. You know, they're going to put the

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01:58:38,480 --> 01:58:42,520
Speaker 1: burden financially on our community and on the state. So

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01:58:42,800 --> 01:58:46,400
Speaker 1: that being said, it doesn't matter. I mean, everybody who

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01:58:46,520 --> 01:58:49,440
Speaker 1: lives in Clarence, Lancaster, lest senate a cheek to walk

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01:58:49,520 --> 01:58:52,720
Speaker 1: go down the list, though you're gonna benefit the most

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01:58:53,360 --> 01:58:57,720
Speaker 1: by rejuvenating our city, okay, and a place to go

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01:58:58,160 --> 01:59:01,000
Speaker 1: in the city, an area in our city to be

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01:59:01,240 --> 01:59:04,320
Speaker 1: proud of. We all benefit from that, and if we're

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01:59:04,360 --> 01:59:06,840
Speaker 1: all going to pay the bill, it shouldn't be just

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01:59:07,160 --> 01:59:10,200
Speaker 1: Orchard Park that benefits from it. I was like I said,

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01:59:10,240 --> 01:59:13,360
Speaker 1: I've been going to Orchard Park for thirty five forty years.

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01:59:13,960 --> 01:59:16,480
Speaker 1: What has built up around there? Not a whole heck

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01:59:16,560 --> 01:59:20,160
Speaker 1: of a lot. There's no destination points outside that stadium

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01:59:20,480 --> 01:59:23,480
Speaker 1: when there's not a football being going on. You put

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01:59:23,600 --> 01:59:27,360
Speaker 1: that in the city destination points, I'm going to rise

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01:59:27,480 --> 01:59:31,160
Speaker 1: around it. That's what I mark, Mark, I appreciate it.

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01:59:31,200 --> 01:59:33,320
Speaker 1: That's all. That's a well thought out statement. You're right,

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01:59:33,400 --> 01:59:35,320
Speaker 1: and there's a lot in there. And you're right too,

2139
01:59:35,400 --> 01:59:37,520
Speaker 1: and I and I agree with you did agree with me.

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01:59:38,120 --> 01:59:41,400
Speaker 1: It's not for the bills of their own, Kim and

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01:59:41,560 --> 01:59:44,760
Speaker 1: Terry and whoever, Brandon being Chama is none for none

2142
01:59:44,760 --> 01:59:48,800
Speaker 1: of those people to decide if the city wants the

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01:59:48,960 --> 01:59:53,640
Speaker 1: stadium downtown. They're the ones that need to make it happen.

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01:59:53,880 --> 01:59:56,640
Speaker 1: It's not exact, it's not the bills, and they need

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01:59:56,680 --> 01:59:59,320
Speaker 1: to do whatever it takes, because if they do do

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01:59:59,400 --> 02:00:02,760
Speaker 1: whatever it takes, You're right, there isn't. I mean, you

2147
02:00:02,880 --> 02:00:05,360
Speaker 1: got the big tree on the corner, you know. I

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02:00:06,720 --> 02:00:12,600
Speaker 1: right that we're fifty years later talking about different politicians

2149
02:00:12,760 --> 02:00:18,760
Speaker 1: in my lifetime possibly making the exact mistake they made

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02:00:19,480 --> 02:00:21,840
Speaker 1: fifty years ago. Well, it'll be because if they build

2151
02:00:21,880 --> 02:00:24,760
Speaker 1: the stadium here, it's done. It's a done deal probably forever.

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02:00:24,880 --> 02:00:29,280
Speaker 1: It'll be never living in Lancaster right where they were

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02:00:29,320 --> 02:00:31,800
Speaker 1: going to put the football stadium when this all started,

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02:00:32,160 --> 02:00:35,200
Speaker 1: and they were gonna have to move. Yeah, right, So

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02:00:35,600 --> 02:00:37,720
Speaker 1: you're right, and and so it's it's down to when

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02:00:37,760 --> 02:00:40,760
Speaker 1: you're ever talking about a project of this magnitude, it's

2157
02:00:40,800 --> 02:00:43,280
Speaker 1: gonna take the entire region to get behind it. But

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02:00:43,720 --> 02:00:46,240
Speaker 1: it starts with leadership. So if if it is going

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Speaker 1: to be someplace other than what we're talking about, what

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Speaker 1: this it was reported. This is the reason it's on

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Speaker 1: our little agenda today, right, Mattie, Because it was reported

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Speaker 1: that it's going to be an open air stadium in

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02:00:54,880 --> 02:00:57,400
Speaker 1: Orchard Park. Okay, if that's the case, what do you

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02:00:57,440 --> 02:01:00,160
Speaker 1: want it to look like? And now you're right if

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Speaker 1: you get to a point like this and you get

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Speaker 1: a kind of a one shot per generation or one

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Speaker 1: shot per lifetime and put in a stadium, a new

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Speaker 1: stadium in if you want to move it, now's the

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Speaker 1: time because it's not going to happen after they decide.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know how far down the road, and

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Speaker 1: this is we have no idea, We have no idea.

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Speaker 1: We just thought it was pretty interesting to talk about

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Speaker 1: and how they're gonna do it and what it's going

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Speaker 1: to look like. So and you know, one of the

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Speaker 1: conversations there's not been mentioned is that Kim and Terry

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Speaker 1: they seem to have a loyalty and allegiance. Maybe it's

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Speaker 1: because that's where the arena was, but they seem to

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Speaker 1: have a loyalty and an allegiance to downtown. They've done

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Speaker 1: other projects around the city and the particularly around the

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Speaker 1: arena that they didn't need to do, but they did

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02:01:46,000 --> 02:01:49,919
Speaker 1: it anyway. And you know, if they have the ability

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Speaker 1: to tie in the arena to a football stadium into

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02:01:53,880 --> 02:01:58,280
Speaker 1: an amtrack and really be some a couple of people

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Speaker 1: who really have the ability to make a difference in

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02:02:01,840 --> 02:02:04,360
Speaker 1: a city. And you know, they would have a legacy

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02:02:05,000 --> 02:02:08,080
Speaker 1: forever with the city of Buffalo if they could make

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02:02:08,160 --> 02:02:11,680
Speaker 1: something really, really big along those kind of lines happen.

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Speaker 1: So I hope and pray that's what happens. I hope

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Speaker 1: our leadership steps up, and I hope the NFL works

2190
02:02:18,720 --> 02:02:20,560
Speaker 1: with us and doesn't do to us what they did

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Speaker 1: to San Diego in Oakland. And thanks thanks for the call. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's you can just envision its exact conversation they had. Yeah,

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02:02:31,680 --> 02:02:34,920
Speaker 1: behind closes and the conversations that are happening right now

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02:02:35,000 --> 02:02:38,200
Speaker 1: behind closed doors. And we don't know that those conversations

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02:02:38,240 --> 02:02:40,840
Speaker 1: haven't already been taken place and already been decided upon

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02:02:40,880 --> 02:02:43,280
Speaker 1: and all eat all that stuff that we will never

2197
02:02:43,360 --> 02:02:48,080
Speaker 1: have no idea. But you're right, this is for the

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Speaker 1: leadership of Buffalo and the Erie County in western New

2199
02:02:52,200 --> 02:02:56,280
Speaker 1: York everywhere. If they didn't want to make a massive change,

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02:02:58,680 --> 02:03:01,320
Speaker 1: this is their shot. Is you do it? Is this

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Speaker 1: is the only window they're ever going to get. Ever,

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02:03:05,360 --> 02:03:07,960
Speaker 1: and he's right too. There there is a little bit

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02:03:08,000 --> 02:03:11,600
Speaker 1: of a you know, nothing's out here around the stadium

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02:03:11,920 --> 02:03:17,200
Speaker 1: kind of mentality even in you know, other stadiums, and

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02:03:17,920 --> 02:03:21,200
Speaker 1: it does bring out some development. Usually this one. I

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02:03:21,320 --> 02:03:24,840
Speaker 1: think it's just because it's an it's four months a year,

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Speaker 1: ten weekends a season. That's all there is out there

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02:03:30,040 --> 02:03:33,720
Speaker 1: out here, that's true. Does that change if it becomes

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Speaker 1: a retractable roof? Maybe? Does more stuff come to Orchard

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Speaker 1: Park because it's not four months out of the year. Yeah,

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02:03:41,480 --> 02:03:43,760
Speaker 1: it's just twelve months out of the year. That's a

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02:03:43,800 --> 02:03:47,080
Speaker 1: good question too. We've got two more things on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet, so let's go and finish that out to

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, which is brought to you by Corgan

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Speaker 1: Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills and Brian says, keep the key camper's lot, keep

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Speaker 1: who cares what the stadiums, it doesn't matter. Keep the

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02:04:06,040 --> 02:04:08,960
Speaker 1: campers can part together, so all we care. He got

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Speaker 1: your priorities straight, right. I guess we have a bunch

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Speaker 1: more because JJR producer just sent us several more of

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Speaker 1: your email email here all right, Huggy Bear says, if

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be an open air stadium, do it like

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02:04:24,080 --> 02:04:26,880
Speaker 1: Seattle where most of the crowd noise stays in and

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02:04:27,040 --> 02:04:30,280
Speaker 1: widen the concourses and most people will be happy with that.

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Speaker 1: That's what I said. Yeah, yeah, that's been an issue

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Speaker 1: with this stadium for a long time. It's one of

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Speaker 1: the things they try to do in the last refurbishment

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Speaker 1: is trying to widen those concourses, and they lit them

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Speaker 1: up a little better than they had been. Um, you

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Speaker 1: want to go to like all these brand new stadium

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Speaker 1: like the one, the big, the big centerpiece and state

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Speaker 1: of the art one is Jerry World down Att Stadium

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Speaker 1: down Yeah, Dallas. That place has got football fields sized concourses.

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Speaker 1: You go up into the up in the end zone.

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Speaker 1: That's how Vegas is. A new stadium looks Yes, it

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02:05:00,960 --> 02:05:02,480
Speaker 1: looks like they have a lot of space and a

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02:05:02,520 --> 02:05:06,320
Speaker 1: lot of space outside the sea. Yeah. Absolutely so. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, we'll see and I don't know where they

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02:05:08,640 --> 02:05:10,720
Speaker 1: can't do that in this stadium or what that's going

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Speaker 1: to look like or or what. But yeah, that's if

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Speaker 1: it's going to be an open air stadium, let's see

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02:05:17,760 --> 02:05:21,560
Speaker 1: what it looks like. Eli says, I want a great

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Speaker 1: view to the field, good seats. I really don't care

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02:05:23,800 --> 02:05:28,360
Speaker 1: if it's open or not. As Hines Field Gillette, hard Rock, MetLife.

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Speaker 1: They are open and they play there in December January.

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02:05:31,680 --> 02:05:34,480
Speaker 1: But the view to the field has to be the thing.

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02:05:35,080 --> 02:05:37,560
Speaker 1: It's a good point that has to work. That's got

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02:05:37,640 --> 02:05:39,680
Speaker 1: to be where it starts, and anything from there is

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02:05:40,480 --> 02:05:42,240
Speaker 1: is gravy. I mean, the seat's got to be comfortable.

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Speaker 1: They got to be happy. Can you can you think

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Speaker 1: of a stadium that you've been to in Satin where

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02:05:47,200 --> 02:05:52,720
Speaker 1: you've been like this view is absolutely terrible. Soldier Field,

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02:05:52,880 --> 02:05:58,120
Speaker 1: Soldier Field hating on the Bears the broadcast broadcast booths.

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Speaker 1: So we pay you know, we I say we like

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Speaker 1: I when I was working for Yeah, we paid tons

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Speaker 1: of cash for that, and they put a broadcast booth

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Speaker 1: in there. If the guy throws a high arching pass

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02:06:12,760 --> 02:06:15,160
Speaker 1: or a pomp, you can't see it. We can't see

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02:06:15,200 --> 02:06:19,400
Speaker 1: the scoreboard. The ceilings too low and it comes down

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02:06:19,480 --> 02:06:22,360
Speaker 1: too far to the end of you can't see. You

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02:06:22,440 --> 02:06:25,280
Speaker 1: can't get an idea of anything in the stadium if

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Speaker 1: it's like you're watching it through, you know, from under

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02:06:27,960 --> 02:06:30,600
Speaker 1: a dark umbrella, and you don't have it lifted high enough.

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Speaker 1: You have that to have a small scoreboard in front

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Speaker 1: of our booth, so that we could see the score

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Speaker 1: and the game and the time and everything. No thanks, thanks,

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Speaker 1: that's why that's why they just put a bid in

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Speaker 1: on Arlington property. All right, Well, big thank you to

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Speaker 1: everybody who tweeted in who called us today to talk

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Speaker 1: about a possible the possibility of a new Bill Stadium

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Speaker 1: here in Orchard Park, a new open air one or

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Speaker 1: retractable roof. Who knows. We are just talking based on reports.

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Speaker 1: So a conversation that we've been able to have based

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Speaker 1: on all those tweets and all those phone calls. But

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Speaker 1: we're going to take a quick break. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: we'll be rounding out the show, finishing off for this

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Speaker 1: Monday afternoon, So don't go anywhere. One Bill's Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Or what

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Speaker 1: have we learned from today's show brought to you by Skyworks,

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Speaker 1: the official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: We've talked at length about what a new Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: Stadium could look like if people want it. Downtown Orchard Park,

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Speaker 1: open air, retractable roof, heated seats, hundred thousand people capacity,

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02:07:51,160 --> 02:07:53,760
Speaker 1: restaurants and shops around it. Keep it how it is.

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02:07:54,320 --> 02:07:57,800
Speaker 1: We want the camper lot. Everybody's got an opinion about

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02:07:57,880 --> 02:08:01,040
Speaker 1: how this place should look, what should be like. But

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02:08:01,200 --> 02:08:04,440
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, want to see good

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02:08:04,480 --> 02:08:08,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's football more than anything. Right, Just show up anyway? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I um, it seems at times it seems like wherever

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Speaker 1: and whatever they do, nobody's gonna be happy. You can't

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Speaker 1: please everybody, you cannot. But I'm with you, Maddie. If

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Speaker 1: the team's really good, hey, I'll sit on a two

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Speaker 1: by I'll sit on a two by six and in

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02:08:26,880 --> 02:08:30,160
Speaker 1: the cold to watch him. So that's fine. Do you

2295
02:08:30,240 --> 02:08:33,160
Speaker 1: have one thing that you're like, this has got to

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02:08:33,480 --> 02:08:36,120
Speaker 1: be in there, a press credential. That's all I care.

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Speaker 1: So I can sit inside now. I like the open

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02:08:40,840 --> 02:08:43,200
Speaker 1: air stadium. I do. I'm a I'm kind of a purist.

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Speaker 1: I think the team it's better. It speaks to our

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Speaker 1: city and what we're about, and and and I don't

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Speaker 1: It doesn't frighten me that once in a while we

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Speaker 1: may have a game like the Indianapolis game four years ago.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm all about it. I And if you want

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Speaker 1: a chance to sit, if you don't want to sit outside,

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02:08:58,960 --> 02:09:00,520
Speaker 1: you got a chance to buy it, they can sit

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Speaker 1: inside somewhere, so I'm all for the open air. We'll

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Speaker 1: see what happens as these conversations continue or if they're ongoing.

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Speaker 1: This was based off reports from Friday, so we aren't

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Speaker 1: really sure about what's going on or the situation or

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Speaker 1: the scenario, but we probably will hear more in the

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Speaker 1: near future, especially if the lease is set to expire

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. That means decisions have got to

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Speaker 1: be made over the next year as to where Buffalo

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Speaker 1: is going to play and what's going to happen for

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02:09:32,360 --> 02:09:36,960
Speaker 1: the seasons to come. Another news of the day, per

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Speaker 1: a source, the Buffalo Bills have signed defensive tackle eli

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Speaker 1: On Coupah. Please played in the CFL. Orson originally from Ottawa, Ontario,

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02:09:51,960 --> 02:09:55,480
Speaker 1: and has played for six different NFL teams during his

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02:09:55,640 --> 02:09:58,760
Speaker 1: time in the league thirty one tackles, second and a

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Speaker 1: half twenty seven games. He's played with the Falcons, with

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, five different teams, and of course also in

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Speaker 1: the CFL. So's he's a journeyman, but the Bills have

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02:10:11,720 --> 02:10:13,440
Speaker 1: got him. He's gonna be in training camp with him.

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Speaker 1: He continues to further his career he'll had some depth.

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Speaker 1: We'll see. This is going to be a tough roster

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Speaker 1: to make this year's squad. Yes, it is, and it's

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02:10:23,240 --> 02:10:26,520
Speaker 1: gonna be There's gonna be some really really good football

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02:10:26,560 --> 02:10:28,880
Speaker 1: players that don't make this roster that probably will go

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02:10:29,000 --> 02:10:31,640
Speaker 1: on to have pretty productive careers. I know, you look

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Speaker 1: at the wide receivers group, the amount of weapons on

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02:10:37,240 --> 02:10:40,520
Speaker 1: this roster currently and how some of those players, and

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02:10:40,680 --> 02:10:43,040
Speaker 1: you could go even beyond the wide receiver room, the

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02:10:43,120 --> 02:10:45,520
Speaker 1: amount of players that could have some some pretty big

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02:10:45,640 --> 02:10:48,640
Speaker 1: roles on other teams this year just because they can't

2335
02:10:48,680 --> 02:10:51,280
Speaker 1: make the Bills roster. They've got like sixteen guys on

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02:10:51,360 --> 02:10:54,160
Speaker 1: the offensive line, about the same number on the defensive line,

2337
02:10:55,560 --> 02:10:59,400
Speaker 1: the same number of wide receivers. They got like nine cornerbacks.

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Speaker 1: They've got six safeties, six tight ends, six running backs,

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Speaker 1: four quarterbacks, and of course Tyler Bass, Matt Hawk, and

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02:11:13,400 --> 02:11:16,800
Speaker 1: Reid Ferguson three specialists that they haven't brought in a

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02:11:16,880 --> 02:11:19,880
Speaker 1: kicker to compete with. Tyler Bass had a pretty good season.

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Speaker 1: Bassim Attic. Yeah, he was great. He was probably for

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Speaker 1: me single season points record, Yeah, for me. He's one

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Speaker 1: of the bright bright spots in a very bright season.

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Speaker 1: But I also one of the for me a surprise.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to come in as a first year player,

2347
02:11:34,200 --> 02:11:36,960
Speaker 1: particularly one who garners so much attention only when you

2348
02:11:37,240 --> 02:11:43,480
Speaker 1: struggle beat out Stephen Haushka during camp. He really played

2349
02:11:43,600 --> 02:11:46,000
Speaker 1: well and seems to have the right mindset for it.

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02:11:46,120 --> 02:11:48,680
Speaker 1: Good for him. Congratulations to him and him and Matt Hawk,

2351
02:11:48,760 --> 02:11:52,640
Speaker 1: who played for the Dolphins last year. Strong legged guy.

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Speaker 1: We'll see roster is gonna be hard to make, Maddie.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a really good football team. It's gonna

2354
02:11:58,040 --> 02:12:00,800
Speaker 1: be fun to go in and watch him play in

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02:12:00,960 --> 02:12:03,840
Speaker 1: high Mark Stadium. So that's where we know the Bills

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02:12:03,840 --> 02:12:06,720
Speaker 1: will be playing next season, Hi Mark Stadium. On another

2357
02:12:06,840 --> 02:12:08,680
Speaker 1: thing on the horizon that I want to let you

2358
02:12:08,760 --> 02:12:11,640
Speaker 1: guys know about is we will begin our countdown to

2359
02:12:11,800 --> 02:12:14,560
Speaker 1: Bill's training camp. And what that means is you can

2360
02:12:14,600 --> 02:12:18,080
Speaker 1: head to Buffalo Bills dot com beginning June twenty eighth

2361
02:12:18,320 --> 02:12:20,280
Speaker 1: and you'll be able to find a bunch of camp

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02:12:20,360 --> 02:12:23,280
Speaker 1: related content. So every day we will have a new article,

2363
02:12:23,640 --> 02:12:26,840
Speaker 1: a new video, a new piece of content for you

2364
02:12:28,120 --> 02:12:32,040
Speaker 1: and for Bill's mafia to read about. Some storylines heading

2365
02:12:32,040 --> 02:12:34,880
Speaker 1: into training camp to get to know some players, so

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Speaker 1: that's coming up soon too. It'll be myself, Chris Brown

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02:12:39,080 --> 02:12:41,600
Speaker 1: and our intern Dante Lasting, as well as some of

2368
02:12:41,680 --> 02:12:44,040
Speaker 1: our videographers who are going to be tackling all of

2369
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Speaker 1: that content and putting some really cool stories together. Yeah,

2370
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Speaker 1: and it was and you probably have already heard one

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Speaker 1: percent capacity for high Mark Stadium this fall. No social distancing,

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Speaker 1: and this is one more step in the evolution. I

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Speaker 1: think it'll be an even different as we get closer

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Speaker 1: to it. It may get to the point where vaccinations

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02:13:04,240 --> 02:13:07,000
Speaker 1: are an afterthought now, you know, because they are creeping

2376
02:13:07,080 --> 02:13:09,160
Speaker 1: up on Yeah, they're saying you don't have to be vaccinated,

2377
02:13:09,240 --> 02:13:11,400
Speaker 1: you have to wear a mask at this point. But

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Speaker 1: we'll see where we're at in September. A lot could

2379
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Speaker 1: change in the next few months that hopefully we may

2380
02:13:16,520 --> 02:13:19,640
Speaker 1: be able to even relax more things as the world

2381
02:13:19,800 --> 02:13:23,120
Speaker 1: in New York continues to fully open. It's an exciting

2382
02:13:23,200 --> 02:13:26,760
Speaker 1: time to be a part of summertime in Buffalo an

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Speaker 1: Orchard Park. We love it, even though rain today. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for tuning here, tuning in here on Monday. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back more with more on Tuesday. Steve Tasker and I

2386
02:13:37,160 --> 02:13:40,080
Speaker 1: holding down the Fort this week. We hope you enjoy

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Speaker 1: your Monday afternoon. We'll be back with more tomorrow, talking

2388
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Speaker 1: about the Buffalo Bills, possible new stadium, and a lot more.

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Speaker 1: We'll see there