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Bon Jovi offering limited Notre Dame-themed edition of new album

Music and higher education come together.

There are so many notable football names connected to Notre Dame you might forgot the university has celebrity fans.

The members of the band Chicago are among the most notable, but another is legendary rocker Jon Bon Jovi.

The band Bon Jovi celebrated its 40th anniversary a year ago. Now, it wants to give Irish fans an opportunity to share in its upcoming album “Forever” in a special way.

The album will be released June 7, but Irish fans can preorder a Notre Dame-themed limited edition of that album on the band’s website. In fact, the university itself is promoting this limited edition because this is the result of a partnership between the school and the band.

So if you or someone you know loves both the Irish and Bon Jovi, this is the perfect gift. Hopefully, you have someone in your life worth buying it for.

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Why Jon Bon Jovi erased Buffalo and the Bills from his life

Jon Bon Jovi won’t be shuffling off to Buffalo for any shows.

The Bills Mafia shouldn’t lose any sleep over this. Jon Bon Jovi told British GQ he will never go back to Buffalo.

Years ago, Bon Jovi and others groups, including now-President Donald Trump, made a futile bid to buy the Buffalo Bills.

The story is retold in the British edition of the magazine entitled, Jon Bon Jovi: “I will never go back to Buffalo, New York.”

Per British GQ:

The rock star has a storied history with Donald Trump. In 2018 it was reported that the American president schemed to keep Bon Jovi from buying the American football team Buffalo Bills in 2014. Allegedly Trump had also been interested in buying the Bills, but he knew he would be unable to outbid Bon Jovi and his Toronto-based partners, so he hired Republican operative Michael Caputo, and they incited a grassroots campaign to turn the people of Buffalo against him.

A group of activists called “12th Man Thunder” sprung up and began establishing “Bon Jovi-free zones” in the city, with Caputo pulling the strings from behind the scenes. Radio DJs in the city refused to play his songs on air.

A large part of the scheme involved convincing the fans that Bon Jovi and his partners intended to move the team to Canada, which Bon Jovi strenuously denies. “I can tell you, I swear to you on a stack of Bibles, because I had to have this hardy conversation with the two partners: ‘We’re not gonna get this unless we keep this here,’” he says, recalling the incident, which he calls “one of the biggest disappointments” of his life. “We never saw it coming. I was calling the town councilman, telling him, ‘I’m moving to Buffalo, New York!’”

Bon Jovi’s group didn’t get the team, and neither did Trump. Terry Pegula, a local businessman won.

“We showed up with a billion three, sitting there with a cheque. And we could have easily bought it at any price,” Bon Jovi said. “We didn’t get to get back in the room. [Pegula] said, ‘What do I have to do to not leave this table without owning the team?’”

And the, um, kicker:

The end result still stings, Bon Jovi said. “I won’t ever go back to the city of Buffalo. You will never see my face in Buffalo ever. I have knocked it off the map.”

Bon Jovi’s loss is Buffalo’s gain.

 

 

Bon Jovi dishes on his Bills bid: ‘I will never go back to Buffalo’

Jon Bon Jovi says he will never go back to Buffalo, says again he did not want to move the Bills.

Jon Bon Jovi is not a fan of Buffalo, NY.

Confirmed.

The rock star has his connection to the Queen City because of Buffalo Bills. As the story goes, current owners Terry and Kim Pegula decided to out-bid everyone from the rocker to the President en route to obtaining ownership of the team.

But also involved in that tale is Bon Jovi and Donald Trump. Back in 2014, Bon Jovi was viewed as the “evil empire” when the club was put up for sale. He wanted to own the Bills and move the team to Toronto, right? GQ Magazine previously disclosed how Trump, at the time, was involved in a plan of sorts to put that narrative out there when it might not have been totally true.

On Friday, GQ has now dropped some updated feelings on that whole scenario with help Bon Jovi himself. We’ve got two interesting things to note from his latest thoughts on the Bills and Buffalo.

First, he again says there were no intentions by him to move the Bills to Toronto. Of course, we only really have his word to go off of, but he says “I swear to you on a stack of Bibles” he didn’t want to move the Bills … adding he told other investors involved in his bid: “We’re not gonna get [the Bills] unless we keep this here.”

More notably from his GQ interview, Bon Jovi is clearly not over how things went down. Fans did have a distain for his attempt to purchase the team with a group of investors who were from Toronto. And because of that, you probably won’t be see him preforming at KeyBank Center or Bills Stadium any time soon.

“I won’t ever go back to the city of Buffalo,” Bon Jovi told GQ. “You will never see my face in Buffalo ever. I have knocked it off the map.”

… And that’s that…

Onto the Chiefs.

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