Buffalo wing and a prayer -- hold the blue cheese.

Don't bet on fans buying chunk of Bills
Garth Woolsey
Thestar.com

If community ownership works so well for the Green Bay Packers, why not the Buffalo Bills?
Well, for one thing the National Football League prohibits the masses from owning and operating its franchises. The Packers are the lone exception to the rule, and their special status was grandfathered into the league's constitution years and years ago. (There are three community teams in the CFL – Saskatchewan, Winnipeg and Edmonton – but such arrangements are extremely rare in ``major'' leagues worldwide, football or otherwise.)
For another, the uber-wealthy NFL prefers that its franchises (literally, licences to print money) appreciate in value and change hands, billionaire to billionaire, for the highest possible prices. In such a boldly capitalist environment, community ownership carries the stigma of a socialist/communist scheme.
Still, desperate times demand desperate measures. So, an elected official in Western New York has asked the NFL for rule changes that would allow the Green Bay model to be used to keep the Bills in Buffalo and out of the jaws, potentially, of salivating Toronto interests.
Congressman Brian Higgins has sent a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who has deep Western New York roots, proposing changes that allow folks to purchase stock and maintain voting rights in a franchise.
``We want to make sure the team stays here in the post-Ralph Wilson era. The Bills are a regional treasure and part of the fabric of our community,'' Higgins writes. ``Community ownership in the Bills would give the Buffalo fans that built this franchise a real role in steering the future of this team.''
Higgins proposes either full community ownership or a hybrid in which one party might hold 51 per cent of shares with the other 49 in the community. At the current Forbes.com valuation of $821 million (all figures U.S.), the price of majority ownership would be $419 million. Minority shareholders would be allowed to vote on franchise relocation, with 70 per cent, say, needed to make such a move.
Meanwhile, a possible sugar daddy is in the wings in the person of Tom Golisano, the Rochester, N.Y., billionaire owner of the Buffalo Sabres who has three times run unsuccessfully for the New York governor's job (campaigns that are said to have cost him a total of $93 million).
"I realize what the issue is," he tells Associated Press. "I think I realize how important that organization is to the Buffalo area. And I'll say the same thing I've said before: If the situation arises, I would do what I can to try to keep the team in the area."
Jim Kelly, the old Bills quarterback, is also in the background, suggesting he might be able to patch together an ownership group to go wallet to wallet with the Toronto interests. Inevitably, there is also highly preliminary talk of building a new stadium on the Buffalo lakefront. You know the routine: if you build it, they will stay.
History is not on Buffalo's side. No one would have believed the Cleveland Browns would skip town, until they did, becoming the Baltimore Ravens. The Colts ducked out of Baltimore for Indianapolis in the dead of night. It is still confusing to consider that the Rams left Los Angeles for St. Louis while the Cardinals left St. Louis for Arizona and no one's in Los Angeles, not even the Raiders.
The NFL change its rules for the ``good'' of a community? Place fans ahead of dollars? Go all mushy? Maybe when pigs fly.