{"id":2975,"date":"2014-04-17T05:19:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T10:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hulettsonlakegeorge.com\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2014-04-17T05:19:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T10:19:12","slug":"espn-trump-to-consider-buying-buffalo-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/2975","title":{"rendered":"ESPN: Trump to Consider Buying Buffalo Bills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/10785589\/donald-trump-interested-buying-buffalo-bills\" target=\"_blank\">From ESPN:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.espn.com\/player.js?pcode=1kNG061cgaoolOncv54OAO1ceO-I&#038;width=495&#038;height=300&#038;externalId=espn:10785728\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New York City businessman and billionaire Donald Trump says he is committed to buying the Bills and keeping them in western New York, according to The Buffalo News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to give it a heavy shot,&#8221; Trump told the News on Monday from his office in Manhattan. &#8220;I would love to do it, and if I can do it, I&#8217;m keeping it in Buffalo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Multiple sources confirmed to the News that Trump has had two conversations with Bills president and CEO Russ Brandon.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who earlier this month confirmed that he was contacted by a group looking to purchase the Bills following the death of longtime owner Ralph Wilson, also wanted to ease concerns that he would move the team to Los Angeles or Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>He has previously said it would be &#8220;catastrophic&#8221; if Buffalo lost the Bills. &#8220;I live in New York, and it&#8217;s easier for me to go to Buffalo than any other place,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Where am I going to move it, some place on the other side of the country where I have to travel for five hours?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump believes his history with the NFL would play no role in a potential purchase of the Bills.<\/p>\n<p>In 1983, Trump bought the New Jersey Generals and was largely responsible for the USFL switching from a spring schedule into direct competition with the NFL in the fall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ESPN: New York City businessman and billionaire Donald Trump says he is committed to buying the Bills and keeping them in western New York, according to The Buffalo News. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to give it a heavy shot,&#8221; Trump told the News on Monday from his office in Manhattan. &#8220;I would love to do it, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/2975\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ESPN: Trump to Consider Buying Buffalo Bills?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ny-state"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}