Do people here remember when the Bills played at War Memorial Stadium, lol?
Terry Pegula
Terry Pegula, the owner of the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres, is now at #188 on the Forbes 400 list, amassing a net worth of $5.7 billion. Pegula shares the #188 spot with six other billionaires in a tie.Oct 5, 2021.
Let Pegula pay for his stadium.
Heh, I was a Deadskins fan back in the day when I first began watching football, and I remembered this tidbit on the first game at Rich Stadium which replaced the old War Memorial Stadium:
"...A sold-out crowd was on hand for the inaugural game in the Buffalo Bills’ brand new Rich Stadium, now known as Ralph Wilson Stadium. It didn’t take long for the first score in stadium history to occur. The Washington Redskins won the toss and elected to receive. Bills’ kicker John Leypoldt sent the opening kickoff two yards deep into Washington’s end zone. The Redskins’ Herb Mul-Key fielded the ball and raced 102 yards for a touchdown and 15 seconds into the game, the Redskins had grabbed a 7-0 lead.
Despite a strong effort by Buffalo quarterback Joe Ferguson, who tossed three touchdowns including a 55-yard scoring strike to J.D. Hill, the Bills fell to the Redskins, 37-21. Washington’s Duane Thomas rushed for 70 yards on 17 carries and scored one touchdown..."
See, I was all excited because the Deadskins George Allen picked up the disaffected Duane Thomas who had been Rookie of The Year and near Super Bowl MVP when Dallas won in 1971, but...even though he had been overwhelmingly voted for Super Bowl MVP, the magazine decided to present it to Roger Staubach instead because Thomas had been boycotting the media and simply wouldn't talk to anyone, and they were worried about what he might say!
Anyway, I was such a fan at the time that I remembered the first game at Rich Stadium in Buffalo when it opened (and later changed to Ralph Wilson Stadium) because I was so excited that the Deadskins had picked up Duane Thomas...heh, that trade didn't work out for them in the end, because...Duane Thomas WAS a loose cannon!
Funny...I haven't thought of that in probably forty years or more, but...when I read your post, I remembered the OLD stadium, and the first game in the NEW stadium which was significant for me as a fan!