Buffalo Bills fans call truce in Bon Jovi music boycott

For months, Buffalo Bills fans have been forcing Jon Bon Jovi to swallow some bad medicine. Now his harsh treatment may be over.

As we told you this spring, the city's football fans organized a local boycott of Bon Jovi's music, because of speculation that the singer and his business partners planned to move the team to Toronto.

Now the NFL has tentatively agreed to sell the team to Terry and Kim Pegula, the owners of the Buffalo Sabres -- and it appears the Bills are staying put.

"Bon Jovi has been lobbying with the NFL for years, he's been rubbing shoulders with all the owners," says Charles Pellein, co-founder of the Bills Fan Thunder, the group behind the Bon Jovi boycott. "He felt like he was going to be a shoe-in for this, and we kind of threw some chaos in the middle of it. Gave him a hard time and made it known here in Buffalo that he wasn't welcome."

Although various reports claimed Bon Jovi and his partners signed a waiver agreeing not to move the team to Toronto, Pellein and his group didn't buy it. But now that the team is staying in the city, they're moving on.

"As far as I'm concerned and the group is concerned, it's over with. We only planned on doing this until an owner was named," he says.

"I never was a Bon Jovi fan and I never will be. I probably will still turn the radio off if I hear him on; it's nothing personal... if it was Santa Claus that was trying to come here and take our Bills and move them to the north pole, we'd probably be boycotting Santa Claus."