If some lawmakers had their way 45 years ago, the home of the Buffalo Bills would have been in Lancaster.
The plan, of course, never came to fruition. In 1970, team owner Ralph Wilson opposed the site along Walden Avenue, sending the Bills to their current home in Orchard Park.
Now, the plans Wilson squashed are in the hands of the Lancaster Historical Society. Erie County Legislator Ted Morton says the old blueprints were found in a County Hall store room.
"The Historical Society mentioned that their plans are to print each of the pages and then have the pages set up in a display so people could look at them individually, said Morton. "They're slightly faded, but in beautiful condition."
"They (the Historical Society) will have the originals available. They just don't want hundreds and hundreds of people flipping through them. That could ruin the originals."
In looking through the 30-40 pages of blueprints Morton says what really caught his eye was that the proposed home of the Bills in Lancaster was a domed stadium.