Thank You Mr Wilson!

this man has the grace to thank us????

"I am happy that the players and the owners have reached an agreement. This has been a long, arduous process for everyone. But in the end, we have a deal that is fair to both our players and the teams and, at the same time, protects the integrity of our game heading into the future. And that is extremely important as we move forward. To our fans, I say thank you for your patience and your understanding during these past four months. So with this great news today, it is time for all of us to focus on the 2011 season and look ahead to Training Camp. I’m excited about the direction our team is heading as we enter the upcoming season and I know our players and fans share in that excitement."

http://www.buffalobills.com/news/article-1/Statement-from-Ralph-C-Wilson-Jr/cd95a738-5145-4020-ab38-577899c30830

Go Bill’s! Thank-you Mr. Wilson.

There is no doubt in my mind that Mr. Wilson has been a steady voice for the leauge, and the bills. He gets too much flack around this site. He has made some bad choices through the years, but he has also made a lot of great choices. I wish him the best and I am honered to be a fan of his team.

Bills have told staffers that they will receive full reimbursement of back pay, restoration of previous salary levels and 401k retro.

Is why Ralph Wilson is a Hall of Famer.

Being from the legion of long time Bills fans, dating back to the 60s, I have had my share of “not-so-wonderful” things to say about this man. But your post is accurate, and describes things in a way I had not organized in my mental closet. For all the things we have disagreed over the past years, he has avoided possibly being an even richer man by keeping the club in Buffalo.

So I join you in saluting Mr Wilson.

Agreed. Revenue sharing is the foundation of the Bills staying here and Mr. Wilson helped to make sure we got it. He also never sold us out, nor did he vote for the old CBA just because everyone else wanted him to. Thank You Mr. Wilson!!

I completley agree. I’ve this for awhile that a lot of fans don’t give ralph enough credit. Ya for the past decade he has let the team slip, and I mean that by not paying our own bred talent or just not wantingt to spend the money on quality FA’s. But I he what he has put together in chix is really something to be absolutley excited about. Also having an apprentice in whaley who’s spent yrs with a first class org like pittsburg and now learning from a great draft and scout guy in Nix is going to go a long way in keeping our bills a contender year after year, once we get to that point. FYI The LA stadium WILL be built. I listen to Espn radio LA all day everyday and their was a lot of movement with that today at city counsil. AEG has I think around 900 mill to spend them selves and would only need 300 mill in bonds. The four teams being heavily talked about are jags,rams,raiders and chargers. In fact the chargers could move as soon as 2012. Their stadium lease in qualcomm is up in 2012. Qualcomm is the biggest piece of pooh staidum in the league. The chargers could play @ the rose bowl for a few yrs while the staidum is being built and trust me the rose bowl for as old as it is would be an upgrade. Don’t worry billsnation our beloved bills will NOT be in LA

I never got why people busted on Ralph, I know he hasn’t always made the best decisions, but without him Buffalo wouldn’t have any football period.

Old Ralphie has sure taken his share of grief from fans and the media. Some of it deserved and some of it not but that is the way of many business leaders. Bottom line as Cinga excellently put it is that Ralph could have move the team many times to greener pastures and he didn’t. He knows how much the city of Buffalo and the fans are attached to the Bills proven by the loyalty shown through the many years of mediocrity.

Just think of the Bidwell’s and the Cardinals they started in Chicago went to St.Louis and now are in Arizona. We all know what Modell did to the loyal Browns fans, Al Davis moving the Raiders to LA and back to Oakland, the Irsay’s in the famous moving the Colts out of Baltimore in the middle of the night, the Rams moving from Cleveland to LA to St. Louis and of course the city of Houston losing 2 teams the original Texans and of course the beloved Oilers an their “Luv Ya Blue”. Ralph stuck with the City of Buffalo even though he could have gotten a pot of gold moving the Bills into another city with a state of the art stadium.

Yes he has made his share of mistakes but I truly believe he made them thinking he was improving the team. He gets called cheap but he has spent his share of money of FA’s they just didn’t pan out…

And because of Ralph Wilson the Oakland Raiders are still in existence today. During the AFL years and the bidding war for players the Raiders were about to go under when Ralph stepped to the plate and lent the team money the rest is history…

A Man like Ralph totally can piss off Jerry Jones because he is fiscally responsible and owning the the Bills isn’t all about the bottom line or else the Bills would have moved years ago!

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Cinga a Rec’d is in order

he made money because of NFL not because he is a football genius…

But he could have made more money if he had moved the team.

We all know that many of his decisions have kept the Bills in the doldrums but this was about him being loyal to the fans of Buffalo (at least that is how I interpreted the article).

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I keep him in my signature for a reason.

I also feel that he has a plan for the Bills franchise even after he passes. He is a smart guy and loves his team. i doubt he would leave it in bad position.

Don’t mean to be a wet blanket, but we don’t know the real details yet.
Sure, they said there will be increased “sharing.”
But the cap floor has risen significantly. The Bills did not build nor sell 50 more $1 million dollar corporate suites this year.

What do we really get from Jerruh and the other rich owners in terms of actual dollars?
Nobody knows.

I just hope that the salary increases do not exceed the supposed “increased” revenue sharing.
Thoughts?