Rock star Jon Bon Jovi could be looking to buy the Buffalo Bills

Jon Bon Jovi and Tom Brady shake hands as Patriots owner Robert Kraft looks on. (Tim Whitby/Getty Images) Jon Bon Jovi, longtime singer of the band that bears

Doug Farrar | Nov 24, 2013

Rock star Jon Bon Jovi could be looking to buy the Buffalo Bills /

Jon Bon Jovi and Tom Brady shake hands as Patriots owner Robert Kraft looks on. (Tim Whitby/Getty Images)

Jon Bon Jovi, longtime singer of the band that bears his last name, is reportedly positioning himself to purchase the Buffalo Bills at some time in the future. According to Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports, Bon Jovi is aligning himself to be one of the contestants for the franchise, which will be on the market when 95-year-old owner Ralph Wilson passes. Wilson has owned the team since its inception in 1960.

La Canfora's report indicated that the Rogers Communications Group, which already works closely with the team for their "home" games in Canada, is the front-runners when the team goes up for sale. But Bon Jovi is taking this seriously. He has spent considerable time in the area getting to know local politicians and others of influence and added a tour date in the Buffalo area to spend more time on the matter.

This would not be a folly for Bon Jovi. He has met with NFL owners for years, is especially close with Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots, and nearly became a minority owner of the Atlanta Falcons at one point. In fact, Bon Jovi already has football ownership experience -- he's the primary owner of the Philadelphia Soul of the Arena Football League, a team that came into existence in 2004 after Bon Jovi secured the rights to a franchise for the city. His involvement with the Soul started to decline after the league suspended operations in 2009, through the team still exists with former NFL quarterback and current ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski in a more prominent role.

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Published Nov 24, 2013

DOUG FARRAR

SI.com contributing NFL writer and Seattle resident Doug Farrar started writing about football locally in 2002, and became Football Outsiders' West Coast NFL guy in 2006. He was fascinated by FO's idea to combine Bill James with Dr. Z, and wrote for the site for six years. He wrote a game-tape column called "Cover-2" for a number of years, and contributed to six editions of "Pro Football Prospectus" and the "Football Outsiders Almanac." In 2009, Doug was invited to join Yahoo Sports' NFL team, and covered Senior Bowls, scouting combines, Super Bowls, and all sorts of other things for Yahoo Sports and the Shutdown Corner blog through June, 2013. Doug received the proverbial offer he couldn't refuse from SI.com in 2013, and that was that. Doug has also written for the Seattle Times, the Washington Post, the New York Sun, FOX Sports, ESPN.com, and ESPN The Magazine. He also makes regular appearances on several local and national radio shows, and has hosted several podcasts over the years. He counts Dan Jenkins, Thomas Boswell, Frank Deford, Ralph Wiley, Peter King, and Bill Simmons as the writers who made him want to do this for a living. In his rare off-time, Doug can be found reading, hiking, working out, searching for new Hendrix, Who, and MC5 bootlegs, and wondering if the Mariners will ever be good again.