# Ralph Wilson Dies at 95
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**Created:** [March 25, 2014, 12:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746 "2014-03-25T12:03:27Z")
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### Author:  [@maverick27](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/maverick27)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 12:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/1 "2014-03-25T12:03:27Z")
via twitter - [https://twitter.com/ByTimGraham/status/448532427112472576](https://twitter.com/ByTimGraham/status/448532427112472576)
[http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/bills-nfl/ralph-wilson-owner-of-buffalo-bills-dies-at-95-20140325](http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/bills-nfl/ralph-wilson-owner-of-buffalo-bills-dies-at-95-20140325)
> **[Bills longtime owner Wilson dies at age of 95](http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/10671922/ralph-wilson-buffalo-bills-owner-dies-95)**
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> Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson has died, the team announced Tuesday.
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### Author:  [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/2 "2014-03-25T12:06:07Z")
Well, can’t wait for all of the speculation regarding the team moving. With this and Jim Kelly not doing well I’m sure there will be a lot of it. I didn’t know until now that he was the last original owner in the NFL.
> **[Bills longtime owner Wilson dies at age of 95](http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/10671922/ralph-wilson-buffalo-bills-owner-dies-95)**
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> Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson has died, the team announced Tuesday.
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 12:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/3 "2014-03-25T12:09:12Z")
Should we congratulate Toronto on their new NFL team?
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### Author:  [@maxwell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/maxwell)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/4 "2014-03-25T12:11:09Z")
> [@Onyx Z32](#):
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> Should we congratulate Toronto on their new NFL team?
☹
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### Author:  [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/5 "2014-03-25T12:14:21Z")
Finally.
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### Author:  [@BOBBYGRV](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BOBBYGRV)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 12:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/6 "2014-03-25T12:15:47Z")
> [@Motocrossx23](#):
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> Finally.
Not cool…
Ralph Wilson served in WWII in both the Pacific and Atlantic and you’re glad he passed away…total lack of class on your part, even if your comment was sarcasm…
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### Author:  [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 12:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/7 "2014-03-25T12:22:48Z")
I’d be a liar if I said I cared. But with that regard the man was really a legendary football pioneer, great owner, and as @BOBBYGRV mentioned a US Hero. Huge loss for the community, the Bills, and the NFL
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 12:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/8 "2014-03-25T12:24:00Z")
> [@Onyx Z32](#):
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> Should we congratulate Toronto on their new NFL team?
You mean the city that couldn’t fill a stadium for a single important regular season game?
Yeah, they may be moving but it sure as hell won’t be Toronto.
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### Author:  [@GV1390](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GV1390)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/9 "2014-03-25T12:26:12Z")
Inb4 the conspiracy theories on how this was connected to the MH350 flight.
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/10 "2014-03-25T12:50:34Z")
> [@JayS](#):
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> You mean the city that couldn’t fill a stadium for a single important regular season game?
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> Yeah, they may be moving but it sure as hell won’t be Toronto.
If it was our team we’d fill the stands just like the leafs do. No one up here much cares about a small market US team testing the waters even if they are our neighbours relatively speaking.
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/11 "2014-03-25T12:59:40Z")
That new lease they just signed should throw a wrench in any relocation plans…
> If the next owner of the Bills desires to relocate the team before the seventh year of the 10-year lease, it will come with a $400 million buyout penalty. Poloncarz noted that the early buyout clause, along with an NFL-imposed relocation fee, could push the cost of moving the Bills to close to $2 billion.
> **[Stadium group spurs talk on Bills' future](https://www.espn.com/blog/buffalo-bills/post/_/id/7264/stadium-group-spurs-talk-on-bills-future)**
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> After New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made his first appointments to a "new stadium working group" Monday, Buffalo Bills CEO Russ Brandon made it clear Tuesday that the team remains focused on upgrading -- not necessarily replacing -- its aging venue.
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### Author:  [@rugsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rugsr)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/12 "2014-03-25T13:13:04Z")
I hear L.A. wants the bills
Thanks a lot Obooma
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/13 "2014-03-25T13:24:09Z")
forgot to say… RIP
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### Author:  [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/14 "2014-03-25T13:25:00Z")
> [@bing](#):
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> forgot to say… RIP
How disrespectful!
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### Author:  [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/15 "2014-03-25T13:30:56Z")
RIP Ralph.
Are the Bills now Livin’ On A Prayer?
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### Author:  [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 1:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/16 "2014-03-25T13:34:43Z")
Your thread was first but no one is posting to it.? lol
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Hey… Now that I think about it, I almost died 11 years ago today. Thank God for EMTs and Mercy Flight.
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/17 "2014-03-25T13:36:27Z")
Threads merged.
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### Author:  [@Justin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Justin)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/18 "2014-03-25T14:12:09Z")
And with Jim Kelly’s current health situation it’s a bad day in Buffalo sports.
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### Author:  [@maxwell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/maxwell)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/19 "2014-03-25T14:17:20Z")
> [@Justin](#):
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> And with Jim Kelly’s current health situation it’s a bad day in Buffalo sports.
Yeah, no bueno.
Stay away from the chaww, boys.
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### Author:  [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ralph-wilson-dies-at-95/268746/20 "2014-03-25T16:04:10Z")
> [@JayS](#):
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> You mean the city that couldn’t fill a stadium for a single important regular season game?
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> Yeah, they may be moving but it sure as hell won’t be Toronto.
Yes and no… you see what the LA Dodgers were just sold for? $2.5b to purchase a team and build a state of the art stadium may be a drop in the bucket for an LA ownership group who are looking to get their hands on one of 32 of these money making gems. Lets just hope people start believing in what Mark Cuban said about the league collapsing lol.
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