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So, Jon Bon Jovi never wanted to relocate the Buffalo Bills to Toronto.

The things you learn listening to Howard Stern. Or should I say, the revisionist history you hear.

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Here’s what really happened a few years ago, according to inside sources at the time, in the position to know.

The pop-rocker, you’ll recall, partnered first with MLSE chairman Larry Tanenbaum then with Edward Rogers of Rogers Communications Inc. in 2014 to bid on the NFL club, which went up for sale following the death in late March of founding owner Ralph Wilson.

Come September of that year, Terry and Kim Pegula far outbid some guy named Donald Trump as well as Bon Jovi’s so-called Toronto group — plus a never-disclosed mystery bidder, or two – and remain Bills owners to this day.

The original idea when Bon Jovi and Tanenbaum partnered up by 2013 was to buy an NFL team and relocate it to Toronto, preferably the Bills. Rogers, and before him his late father Ted, had had designs on bringing an NFL team (expansion or relocated) to Toronto as far as back as the 1990s.