{"id":53960,"date":"2014-09-09T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T19:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=53960"},"modified":"2014-09-09T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T19:50:07","slug":"sabres-owners-to-buy-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=53960","title":{"rendered":"Sabres owners to buy Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41956\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41956\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wilsonralph3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41956\" alt=\"Ralph Wilson\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wilsonralph3-211x300.jpg\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wilsonralph3-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wilsonralph3-123x175.jpg 123w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wilsonralph3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Wilson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) &#8211; The estate of late Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson has reached &#8220;a definitive agreement&#8221; to sell the franchise to Buffalo Sabres owners Terry and Kim Pegula.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The announcement was made Tuesday afternoon in a four paragraph news release issued by the team. The deal was reached a day after the Pegulas were one of three groups to submit their formal bids.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0 The sale is subject to being approved by a three-quarters majority of the NFL&#8217;s 31 owners,<\/strong> which is expected to come at league meetings on Oct. 8. Though the sale price was not revealed, the Bills said the Pegulas will be the sole owners.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wilson&#8217;s widow, Mary Wilson, credited the Pegulas for their commitment to keeping the franchise in western New York and carrying on her husband&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) &#8211; The estate of late Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson has reached &#8220;a definitive agreement&#8221; to sell the franchise to Buffalo Sabres owners Terry and Kim Pegula. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The announcement was made Tuesday afternoon in a four paragraph news release issued by the team. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53962,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53960\/revisions\/53962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}