So Pellien got together with some friends earlier this summer and came up with an idea: ban Bon Jovi music.
It was a way to galvanize the fan base and make a visible effort to keep the team in Western New York. And it’s not like Pellien liked Bon Jovi to begin with. “I was always more of a hard rock, Metallica, Led Zeppelin guy,” he said.
To his surprise, the ban caught fire. It began with a couple of bars and grew to a list of more than 200 places, including gentlemen’s clubs and even radio stations in the area. A bar with the appropriate name “GFY” is on the list, and a server named Tammy picked up the phone on Sunday and was happy to talk about the situation. “Nobody wants to lose their team,” she said.