All Things Pegula 2

[Ace]

Please be forced to sell the team.

Please.

 

[zenthusiast]

Lol no f***ing way

 

[Gabrielor]

Is Terry Pegula the biggest snake oil ever sold to the Buffalo sports market?

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

First, he better have that on recording. If so, he better also have the full context. If not, the whole "he said this" type of accusation is really just hollow. Anyone can accuse anyone of saying anything.

He doesn't need to have it on recording for it to be true. You sound like sleezy defense lawyer who doesn't care what actually happened.

 

[Duddy]

I mean no matter if he said that or not, what f***ing context would make it okay to say such a thing?

 

[zenthusiast]

The most shocking moment of his life was learning that Okposo is from Minnesota

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

I mean no matter if he said that or not, what f***ing context would make it okay to say such a thing?

"I'm not racist, but..."

 

[joshjull]

I mean no matter if he said that or not, what f***ing context would make it okay to say such a thing?

It's not ok. It's also not shocking that an old white guy said something incredibly ignorant about a minority group.

 

[joshjull]

Now its officially a "he said, he said" situation.

 

[Der Jaeger]

I very much hope that what Pegula is quoted as saying is false. And provably false.

And, as @Husko will probably remind us, innocent until proven guilty.

 

[Gabrielor]

Now its officially a he said, he said situation.

And since none of us were in the room, I'm sure discourse on it will be civil.

 

[Zman5778]

I just want to say this now, getting ahead of things:

Remember, politics are NOT to be discussed in this thread.....and we have to be VERY careful as Terry's reported comments could very easily steer us to conversations that we can't have.

Anything that's too politically-charged will be deleted per site rules.

 

[Dingo44]

Based on Trotter's continuous baseless allegations about all sorts of nonsense on The Athletic, I wouldn't believe a word he says and I'm disgusted he would try to smear people like this for his own gain.

 

[Zman5778]

Is Terry Pegula the biggest snake oil ever sold to the Buffalo sports market?

Nah, I still think Rigas wins that award. Even if the quotes attributed to Terry are true -- Terry would then just be a standard-issue racist. Rigas is/was a liar and a thief and a con.

 

[zenthusiast]

We’ll obviously never know conclusively whether he said it but it’s plausible to me that an established journalist wouldn’t pull this out of his ass at random

 

[Zman5778]

I very much hope that what Pegula is quoted as saying is false. And provably false.

And, as @Husko will probably remind us, innocent until proven guilty.

I highly doubt we'll ever get anything definitive one way or another unless there is video or audio evidence. And I doubt that Terry (and Jones, for that matter) is dumb enough to say something like that in an interview he knows is being taped.

 

[Gabrielor]

Nah, I still think Rigas wins that award. Even if the quotes attributed to Terry are true -- Terry would then just be a standard-issue racist. Rigas is/was a liar and a thief and a con.

Good point.

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

I very much hope that what Pegula is quoted as saying is false. And provably false.

And, as @Husko will probably remind us, innocent until proven guilty.

If the NFL settles this civil lawsuit, will you see that as an admission of guilt? I have a feeling you'll always have a reason to say he's innocent.

This will be settled because it's in everyone's best interest, and we'll never learn any more than we know now.

 

[zenthusiast]

If the NFL settles this civil lawsuit, will you see that as an admission of guilt? I have a feeling you'll always have a reason to say he's innocent.

This will be settled because it's in everyone's best interest, and we'll never learn any more than we know now.

Sometimes you just settle to make it go away and avoid bad pr. Impossible to say.

 

[Gras]

I mean no matter if he said that or not, what f***ing context would make it okay to say such a thing?

People will quote people quoting someone else and present it as if they originally said it.

 

[Beerz]

It's not ok. It's also not shocking that an old white guy said something incredibly ignorant about a minority group.

It's also not shocking that an old white guy wouldn't say something totally ignorant about a minority group.

 

[joshjull]

It's also not shocking that an old white guy wouldn't say something totally ignorant about a minority group.

True

 

[Beerz]

Bills’ owner Terry Pegula said NFL was ‘under assault’ during anthem protests

When the Buffalo Bills took the field in 2017, none of them expected to be pawns in a political game. After controversial and divisive comments by President Trump at an Alabama rally in late-Septem…

billswire.usatoday.com

 

[MOGlLNY]

Oh boy here we go

 

[Zman5778]

Bills’ owner Terry Pegula said NFL was ‘under assault’ during anthem protests

When the Buffalo Bills took the field in 2017, none of them expected to be pawns in a political game. After controversial and divisive comments by President Trump at an Alabama rally in late-Septem…

billswire.usatoday.com

Wow, talk about a bit of a misleading headline. Pegula didn't say that the league was under assault by the protests......he said it was under assault by then-President Trump.

Bit of a difference there.