What could have happened if Terry and Kim Pegula didn’t buy the Buffalo Bills in 2014? Would the team be the Toronto, Los Angeles or Las Vegas Bills? How would the sports landscape have changed if Scott Norwood made that 47-yard field goal in Super Bowl XXV or Jim Kelly had refused to sign with Buffalo when the USFL folded? What if the NHL had disallowed Brett Hull’s goal in Game 6 of the 1999 Stanley Cup Finals or if the Vancouver Canucks had drafted Gilbert Perreault? What if the Buffalo Sabres had chosen Connor McDavid or Jack Eichel became an Arizona Coyote?
These are just some of the local sports questions pondered in We All Just Bought A Team: The Biggest What-Ifs in Buffalo Sports History by author and Tonawanda resident Jeff Dahlberg. The book was recently released by NFB Publishing in Buffalo.
Each chapter opens with a recap of actual history, then pivots to the what-ifs. Prominent sportswriters, authors, historians and sports pundits weigh in with their view of each question. “It’s like being at a bar or a party where everybody is talking about sports and everybody has an opinion,” said the author. “Not everyone agrees, but everyone has something to say.”
We All Just Bought A Team is available on amazon.com. A Kindle version is also available.
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