Buffalo Bills in Toronto?

The NFL wants to play around the world, such as London on Sunday when the NY Giants battle Miami in London. And Canada should get a piece of that action. It might come sooner than expected.

This story goes into more detail on a possible connection between the Buffalo Bills and nearby Toronto. Bills fans already know that Canadians make up quite a bit of the Buffalo fan base.

The plan calls for the Bills to play one pre-season game and one regular-season game a year at the Rogers Centre, the home of the MLB Blue Jays and the CFL Argos.

Toronto is probably the most NFL-centric of the Canadian cities. I walked away with that impression in my trip to Toronto in September.

Toronto or Vancouver will likely get a regular-season NFL game anyway as part of the NFL world expansion. But Toronto's chance of getting a NFL team for real is fed by Buffalo's uncertainty once owner Ralph Wilson dies. And Toronto is realistically the best shot for a Canadian city to get a NFL team.

Hopefully, the NFL and CFL can co-exist in Toronto; the birth of NFL in Canada shouldn't mean the demise of the CFL in Canada's largest city.