What would it take for the Bufffalo Bills to move to Toronto?

When I visited the Microsoft Store in the Eaton Centre at the beginning of December, I was interested to see that among the covers for the Surface Pro 4 that this store carried were some carrying the logo of the AFL's Buffalo Bills.



Clearly, this store's inventory came from someone who knew Toronto's history with this team.

The intermittent [URL='https://abitmoredetail.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/link-megalopolitan-toronto/']efforts
of urbanists and regionalists to make Toronto part of a cross-border megalopolis, one stretching west along the shoreline of Lake Ontario from Toronto up the Niagara River to Buffalo, have really not worked out. There's not enough binding the Golden Horseshoe together, never mind roping the American side of the Niagara River into a community divided by relatively impermeable borders. The only readily visible sign that such a community exists lies in the relative popularity of the Buffalo Bills in the Greater Toronto Area.

As early as 2007, there were seriously concerns that the Buffalo Bills might be moved to Toronto in its owners' search for a larger and richer market. For a few years, the Buffalo Bills even held home games in Toronto's Rogers Centre. In 2014, these came to an end, as the people concerned decided the games just were not worth it.

Even if the owners had wanted to move, Toronto, I think, would have been a difficult market. Mine is just not a good sports city from the perspective of high-performing teams or popular teams, whether you look at Toronto FC or the Argonauts or the Maple Leafs. Perhaps the Raptors might be an exception? There would have been controversy surrounding the move at the Buffalo end, as well as at the Canadian end--an AFL intrusion into Canadian football territory would have been controversial.

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I think it would take the Leafs, Jays, Argos and Raptors being better teams on and off the field, and at the same time if the Bills had not had the postseason runs they did in the nineties.

Or if Ralph Wilson was the type of owner that makes fun of the city in the national media.
 
I think it would take the Leafs, Jays, Argos and Raptors being better teams on and off the field, and at the same time if the Bills had not had the postseason runs they did in the nineties.

Or if Ralph Wilson was the type of owner that makes fun of the city in the national media.

This is embarrassing, but what were the Bills' postseason runs like?
 
Buffalo Bill was featured on n episode of Murdochs Mysteries where his rodeo show was visiting the city. There was talk of him staying, but he was too much a travelling man - too many people from around the world wanted to see his 'exploits'.
 
Could it have happened? What would it have taken for this to occur?
Bon jovi was sucessful, he was the one pushing to buy and move the bills but the peluga ruined it, maybe if they got busy with the sabres, bon jovi plan would have been sucessful .
 
Bon jovi was sucessful, he was the one pushing to buy and move the bills but the peluga ruined it, maybe if they got busy with the sabres, bon jovi plan would have been sucessful .

Toronto does not have enough interest in the Buffalo Bills to justify a move to Toronto.
 
Toronto does not have enough interest in the Buffalo Bills to justify a move to Toronto.

A foreign team from a foreign city doesn't have unanimous support? Shocking! There would probably be the supporting there if the move happened, but currently isn't because of the aforementioned reasons.

Any move by an NFL team into a CFL market requires CFL permission (which likely means a huge number of dollars paid to the league) so keep that in mind.
 
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