# Official Ralph Wilson gossip thread **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 27, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214 "2009-03-27T19:46:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Treads4Heads](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/treads4heads/32/7416_2.png) [@Treads4Heads](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Treads4Heads)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/21 "2009-03-28T11:24:34Z")
[http://nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68022](http://nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68022) :picard: ---
**Author:** ![BDR5oh](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bdr5oh/32/7315_2.png) [@BDR5oh](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BDR5oh)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/22 "2009-03-28T11:25:13Z")
BS … he was like 200 years old anyways … ---
**Author:** ![justa4door](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/justa4door/32/7259_2.png) [@justa4door](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/justa4door)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 11:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/23 "2009-03-28T11:27:36Z")
not true ---
**Author:** ![nappy1380](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nappy1380/32/7502_2.png) [@nappy1380](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nappy1380)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 11:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/24 "2009-03-28T11:59:41Z")
> [@eclipsed](#): > > no links, no news or media outlets reporting it. > > i have a source on the inside that says he is dead. last night. > > byebye buffalo bills. > [@ILC](#): > > false rumours says man on inside Not true. Coming from someone who is on the inside and appealed to others to confirm that it was indeed not true. ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 12:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/25 "2009-03-28T12:04:38Z")
The only thing someone had last night was some no name blog but no one could find any source. I found it funny. I tried to start a Brett Favre is coming out of retirement and signed for the bills rumor last night. Only made it around one bar. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/26 "2009-03-28T12:28:59Z")
So weird. A friend of mine just called saying ESPN was reporting he was dead on their site. He had left Buff State 15 minutes before calling me and was reading the article online there. I just searched all over and it’s nowhere on [ESPN.com](http://ESPN.com). He’s not the kind of person to make something like that up, plus he had all kinds of details about Wilson being sick then getting pneumonia. ---
**Author:** ![blk99z28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@blk99z28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/blk99z28)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/27 "2009-03-28T12:33:14Z")
I heard the same thing, but unconfirmed at the moment. nothing on wikipedia so it must not be true. > **[Ralph Wilson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Wilson)** > > Ralph Cookerly Wilson Jr. (October 17, 1918 – March 25, 2014) was as an American businessman and sports executive. He was best known as the founder and owner of the Buffalo Bills, a team in the National Football League (NFL). He was one of the founding owners of the American Football League (AFL), the league with which the NFL merged in 1970, and was the last of the original AFL owners to own his team. At the time of his death he was the oldest owner in the NFL, at age 95, and the third-longest t... ---
**Author:** ![ILC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilc/32/5337_2.png) [@ILC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILC)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/28 "2009-03-28T12:51:49Z")
Well it would be front page news on espn… and its not on the front page. ---
**Author:** ![9c1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9c1/32/7392_2.png) [@9c1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9c1)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/29 "2009-03-28T12:53:35Z")
I heard this rumor as well. Not true (yet). ---
**Author:** ![98SS10](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/98ss10/32/7288_2.png) [@98SS10](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/98SS10)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/30 "2009-03-28T13:21:04Z")
i heard bout this last night too, the bar was a buzzin, looting in the streets, we even turned over a small hatchback. ---
**Author:** ![blk99z28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@blk99z28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/blk99z28)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/31 "2009-03-28T14:23:26Z")
Its :bsflag: channel 2 caught wind of this too, so they called the house Ralph answered the phone. [http://buffalosportszone.wnymedia.net/blogs/2009/03/27/ralph-wilson-is-not-dead/](http://buffalosportszone.wnymedia.net/blogs/2009/03/27/ralph-wilson-is-not-dead/) ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/32 "2009-03-28T14:24:34Z")
This is the best year to die if you are leaving millions. If you die next year and you have lots o money your kids are f’ed because the old giant death taxes are coming back. ---
**Author:** ![Syrup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@Syrup](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Syrup)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/33 "2009-03-28T14:24:38Z")
[http://hollywood.mywebdunia.com/2009/03/28/ralph\_wilson\_dead.html](http://hollywood.mywebdunia.com/2009/03/28/ralph_wilson_dead.html) says he died yesterday? lol so credible ---
**Author:** ![jballz86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/53a042/32.png) [@jballz86](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jballz86)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/34 "2009-03-28T14:25:27Z")
Offically just a rumor, I just got off the phone with my uncle who is a VP and has been with the Bills 35+ years and he confirmed it was not true. Wilson lives :tup: ---
**Author:** ![blk99z28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@blk99z28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/blk99z28)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/35 "2009-03-28T14:30:49Z")
> [@Blue Eyed Devil](#): > > This is the best year to die if you are leaving millions. > If you die next year and you have lots o money your kids are f’ed because the old giant death taxes are coming back. Wrong! Anything over $3.5m is taxed at 45% on the federal level and roughly 14% at the state level. There is no federal estate tax for 2010 but returns in 2011 @ 55% \> $1m. Nice try though. ---
**Author:** ![Treads4Heads](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/treads4heads/32/7416_2.png) [@Treads4Heads](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Treads4Heads)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/36 "2009-03-28T14:57:19Z")
> [@blk99z28](#): > > Wrong! Anything over $3.5m is taxed at 45% on the federal level and roughly 14% at the state level. There is no federal estate tax for 2010 but returns in 2011 @ 55% \> $1m. > > Nice try though. QUIT BEING SUCH A NEGATIVE FUCKING NANCY, jesus can I not read a single thread without you trying to muck it up with shitty fucking sarcasm. ---
**Author:** ![blk99z28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@blk99z28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/blk99z28)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/37 "2009-03-28T15:00:35Z")
> [@Treads4Heads](#): > > QUIT BEING SUCH A NEGATIVE FUCKING NANCY, jesus can I not read a single thread without you trying to muck it up with shitty fucking sarcasm. There was nothing negative or sarcastic about my post. Just merely stating fact. Sorry, forgot that we wouldn’t want facts to get in the way of a good thread. I’ll crawl back under my rock and allow all me misinformation to flow as usual. ---
**Author:** ![Treads4Heads](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/treads4heads/32/7416_2.png) [@Treads4Heads](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Treads4Heads)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/38 "2009-03-28T15:04:49Z")
Not here to bicker, but between the zr1 thread and this im just suggesting you quit being so negative towards what everyone posts. its just plain respect man ---
**Author:** ![blk99z28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@blk99z28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/blk99z28)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/39 "2009-03-28T15:07:49Z")
> [@Treads4Heads](#): > > its just plain respect man Not a problem. I can understand someone not wanting to be disrespected by correcting them when they are wrong. I will no longer post factual information if it stands to correct someone who previously posted the information to be incorrect. :grouphug: ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214/40 "2009-03-28T15:12:59Z")
> [@Treads4Heads](#): > > Not here to bicker, but between the zr1 thread and this im just suggesting you quit being so negative towards what everyone posts. its just plain respect man He was bitching at blue eyed devil’s usual political misinformation. I think it was warranted. The guy is constantly trying to feed us crap and it was right to call him out. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ralph-wilson-gossip-thread/65214.md?page=3)