{"id":9353,"date":"2012-12-21T14:48:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T20:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=9353"},"modified":"2012-12-21T14:50:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T20:50:03","slug":"bills-sign-new-stadium-lease-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=9353","title":{"rendered":"Bills Sign New Stadium Lease Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/FitziBills.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9354\" title=\"FitziBills\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/FitziBills-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/FitziBills-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/FitziBills-431x300.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/FitziBills-251x175.jpg 251w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/FitziBills.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the Buffalo Bills have reached an agreement with Erie County and the state on a lease deal for the Ralph Wilson Stadium that will keep the NFL franchise in western New York.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo told a packed news conference at the team&#8217;s headquarters in Orchard Park that the lease keeps the Bills in Orchard Park at least through the first seven years of the 10-year pact.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.syracuse.com\/sports\/2012\/12\/report_buffalo_bills_agree_to.html\" target=\"_blank\">agreement <\/a>includes $130 million in renovations for the nearly 40-year-old stadium, with the Bills providing $35 million and the state and county covering the other $95 million.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo spoke via a satellite television hookup from New York City because stormy weather Friday prevented him from flying upstate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the Buffalo Bills have reached an agreement with Erie County and the state on a lease deal for the Ralph Wilson Stadium that will keep the NFL franchise in western New York. Cuomo told a packed news conference at the team&#8217;s [&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-9353","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\/9353","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=9353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9357,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions\/9357"}],"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=9353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}