Buffalo Bills Vs Jacksonville Jaguars Review: Somewhere Ralph Wilson Is Smiling

The Bills can't stop the run, and can't cover tight ends, and make stupid decisions. That's the Jacksonville review.

In life, sometimes a fact exists that, to the core, is as uncomfortable to accept as the truth, because of the topic or the outcome. The Buffalo Bills have one of those uncomfortable truths that has to be acknowledged. The longer Ralph Wilson lives, the more likely the franchise will no longer be in Buffalo. The other part of that fact shown after the last 10 years and 5 weeks of football, is the franchise will only begin to turn around the day Ralph Wilson dies.

Sunday was a perfect example of his dream. In Ralph Wilson Stadium (named such because the egomaniac will not sell the naming rights to gain extra revenue, why would a small market team want more money?), a stadium full of empty seats and suckers, watched Ralph's creation once again stink up the joint. I would love to proclaim that Ralph is delusional or insane, but all reports state that the man still has all of his wits about him. The 2010 Buffalo Bills have been years in the making, with one simple goal crafted by Ralph:

To kill the Bills in Buffalo, and have them leave in the last act of heartbreak.

The games in Toronto are somewhat about revenue, in the same way that the tax breaks for stadium maintenance are about revenue. Ralph's focus on creating extra dollars is all about putting the fear in the people of Buffalo and Erie County, that the franchise will leave eventually. That's why there is no succession plan in place once he dies. His rationale is that he doesn't want his kids to pay the estate tax for inheriting the franchise. If he really loved his kids, he would die this year, when there is no estate tax (trust me, a lot of wealthy people and their families are factoring these tax decisions). The family would be given a huge asset with no penalty.

The season ticket selling point the last few years has all been about buying tickets to be a good citizen, to help keep the team. Or as I like to call it, being held hostage. Ralph lives in Detroit and he doesn't care about Buffalo. At one point he did and really appreciated the city, but just like a bad marriage, the relationship turned sour. My theory is that the successes of the Bills in the 90's led him to become bitter towards a city who credited Marv Levy, and Jim Kelly, and Bill Polian, for the success of the team. Ralph wasn't first for the fans love, and he felt jilted. That's why he fired Polian. John Butler wanted to be rewarded for his success and Ralph treated him like junk. Ralph was the king, it was his team, and he would control what direction the franchise went in, and blame everyone else for its failure.

He has done a fantastic job of deflecting blame. Gregg Williams, Mike Mularkey, Wade Phillips, Dick Jauron, Tom Donohue, Marv Levy, they all stink. Who hired them? Levy was hired to help tarnish his legacy in Buffalo. Ralph loves Russ Brandon because he is a businessman first, tasked with lining Ralph's pockets, while having zero concern about on the field success. Remember at the beginning of this season when Ralph proclaimed that he would spend any amount of money to get the best coach out there, and then hired Chan Gailey. This isn't an owner who wants to win. Bills fans have acted like sheep (myself included), in ripping to shreds these horrible coaches, who all look exactly the same once they coach the Bills, because they are given so few resources to succeed.

The Bills have no franchise quarterback, no star receiver, no offensive line, no defensive pass rushers, and no good linebackers (always good to switch to a 3-4 with ZERO talented linebackers). The Bills just signed Chris Kelsay to a 4 year $24 million extension. I thought it was a joke. You mean the guy with no position, who is already 30. That's just a team wasting money. The drafts and free agent signings have been horrendous, and it's like the Bills hired the scouting staff from candidates who completed a one-day scouting training seminar. Spending $24 million isn't being cheap, yet hiring coaches and scouts is done on the cheap, because Ralph Wilson wants the Bills to lose. He's willing to spend the television money on the players, yet pocket anything else that comes in, which makes no sense considering he doesn't want his kids to maximize their revenue and he's 91. He's not buying jet skis or sports cars.

The only way the last ten years and five weeks make sense, is that Sunday Ralph looked at a horrible team, and a rapidly declining fan base interest, and sees his plan coming to fruition. The worse the team gets, the more likely fans stay away, the more likely season ticket sales decline even more, and the more likely the franchise will move from Buffalo, with the justification that the city and fans can't support the team. Ralph Wilson wants this to happen. If he really cared about the success of the team, and was passionate about it, at least one of the horrible losses of the last decade would have given him a heart attack. Instead, he seems healthier than ever. Sad, hurt people aren't chipper at 91.

The sooner Ralph dies, the more likely it is the franchise stays in Buffalo. The economy stinks, other franchises are first in line to move (San Diego and Minnesota have major stadium issues), no US city really has a viable bid or stadium ready, the international market is still too new to move a team to a London or Toronto, and the fan base still is strong enough to show support. The longer this dreck continues, the more likely the economy will improve, LA and Vegas will have new stadiums, and fan interest will wilt to the move becoming the inevitable. Many people believe that as soon as Ralph dies, the Bills are gone anyway. The window for them staying is still open, but will becomes dicey if Ralph dies in 2012 or 2013.

Writing this article surely will bring out the sheep, who will say I'm not a true Bills fan. Those fans are idiotic enough to line Ralph's pockets with ticket and merchandise sales while he's stealing tax money from you. I'm glad to see that a lot of Buffalo fans are not buying into it anymore, and spending their money on something better. At this point, that's anything. If you really love football in person, go to a high school game, or UB, or if you can't stay away from the Bills, buy the tickets from a season ticket holder looking to unload, and sneak all of your food in.

I've been a Bills fan for 30 years, and in a weird way I enjoyed the 2-14 seasons. I was 9 and 10 at the time, and I really liked being able to go to the games where I could sit in my own row. In 1984 and 1985, the NFL was a lot more about football and a lot less about business, when compared to the NFL in 2010. The Buffalo Bills, under Ralph Wilson's leadership, are focused on one business goal, and that goal is to screw over the people of Buffalo. Sad but true.