Quick Hit 8/7 #2: The NFL MUST Leave Buffalo, And There Appears To Be At Least A Billion Reasons Why

Following up a bit on the news that the Buffalo Bills, at this point, appear to be headed to the owner of the Buffalo Sabres for, as of now, $1.3 billion...

If I'm the NFL, I reject all bids.

In fact, I give the parties who would receive the funds at least $200,000,000 more than that, fold the Bills, and put a 2015 expansion team on the market (for which I know I could get two, if not three, times the money for it).

Forbes Magazine valued the Bills at $870,000,000 in August, 2013.

(Note:  That was basically the amount Jon Bon Jovi bid to move them to Toronto.)

Same magazine, a year earlier, put the Clippers at $575,000,000 -- which is now $2,000,000,000, sold to Steve Ballmer.

It would appear that a fair bid for the Bills would be DOUBLE the Sabres' owner bid, at MINIMUM.

They're not getting it in Buffalo, and it's the main reason that the NFL has to find the quickest and cleanest escape route from cities like Buffalo and Jacksonville.  The only reason I don't put Oakland on the list is the possibility they might get a sharing deal together for Levi's Stadium.  Fail that, and it's time to eject out of Oakland.

My honest opinion is the non-viability of Buffalo as a major-sports city has, at minimum, halved the real value of the Bills.  The Bills weren't worth $870,000,000 in 2013 by a long-shot -- not even with the literal printing press of money The National Religion provides.

You can't tell me with The Undisputed And Undefeated King of Sports in the USA, The National Religion, that you can't get two-thirds of the value for the CLIPPERS -- the Lakers' bitch??