By: Joe Pinzone

I've been meaning to write about the impending lockout that seems destined to shut down the entire 2011 NFL season. I don't know about you, but I'm extremely worried about this situation and I'm not talking about the prospect of no football. What worries me is that you're hearing the leader of the Players Association come out and say that there is no way the players are going back to a salary cap system. If that doesn't scare you, Jerry Jones comments from last year about revenue sharing being a thing of the past should.

Look, I've always stated that I felt the Buffalo Bills are destined to move once Ralph Wilson passes away. Now if either of these two things happen (No cap, no revenue sharing), not only could the Bills be moving even sooner, but in the meantime you could see Buffalo become the Kansas City Royals of the NFL.

Yes, I know, the Buffalo Bills could easily be considered the Royals with the way they play, but without revenue sharing you'll have teams like the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants blowing away the Bills in how much money they make and spend. Without a cap you'll have the larger markets completely out pricing the smaller markets when it comes to signing players. Buffalo could very well become a breeding franchise for larger NFL markets.

Honestly, the revenue sharing is what scares me the most. You've always heard Wilson complain about new stadiums being built, selling luxury suites at half a million a pop, and bigger cities having robots made of gold (OK, I made that last one up). As of now, revenue sharing doesn't consist of sharing luxury box sales and with the possibility of ticket revenue not being split up, the Bills could end being David in a Goliath league.

With all this uncertainty in revenue sharing, you would think that the Buffalo Bills would be outspoken to get a new Collective Bargaining Agreement deal done. Well, we haven't heard a peep from them. I find it a little odd because Ralph Wilson was so opposed to the CBA signing in 2006. I don't want to sound like Oliver Stone over here, but what's the difference between now and then? Does Wilson know the team is moving after his passing? Does Wilson know that the salary cap isn't coming back? Does Wilson even care anymore? I would just think that the Bills would be howling at the moon to get a deal done.

Of course, it could be that Wilson and the Bills are just being coy throughout the whole ordeal. All I know is ever since the current Collective Bargaining Agreement was signed in 2006, the Bills developed their "cash to the cap" philosophy, and haven't been nearly as active in spending money on free agents. Currently, they rank in the bottom tier of the NFL in spending money on free agents. If the new CBA doesn't include revenue sharing, the Buffalo Bills may develop "a cash in my pocket" philosophy.

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In related news, there's been reports in St. Louis that one of the groups that has a bid on buying the Rams is from Toronto. I know most Bills fans would love the notion for someone to buy the Rams and relocate them to Canada so the Bills wouldn' be able to farm-out one or more home games a season to Toronto. Not so fast. Realize that about 20,000 of the Buffalo Bills seasons ticket holders are from the Southern Ontario area. I would only assume that half of those fans would change their minds and head north on the QEW to see the Toronto Rams play.

I've said it before and the labor problems concur it, the Buffalo Bills need Toronto and Southern Ontario to thrive in the NFL. If a team moves to Toronto, it would do significant damage to the Bills regional approach with the franchise.

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