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Prospective Buffalo Bills owner and current Buffalo Sabres owner Terry PegulaDavid Duprey/The Associated Press

Terry Pegula's bottom line has received a big bump in his bid to purchase the Buffalo Bills while a Toronto-based group has reportedly been asked to come back to the table with a revised offer.

The Buffalo Sabres owner closed on a $1.75-billion deal to sell the drilling rights on about 75,000 acres of land in Ohio and West Virginia to American Energy on Tuesday. The sale was announced by American Energy and in a release issued by PR Newswire.

The agreement between Pegula's East Resources Inc. and Oklahoma-based American Energy was first reached in June.

The sale comes at a time when Pegula and wife Kim are considered the front-runners to buy the Bills, who are for sale after Hall of Fame owner Ralph Wilson died in March.

The Pegulas and New York real estate mogul Donald Trump have both been chosen to advance to the next round of the sale process by Morgan Stanley, the banking firm overseeing the sale. Trump said he made an initial non-binding bid of $1-billion.

A Toronto-based group fronted by rocker Jon Bon Jovi has been asked to re-submit their offer because their initial bid was deemed to be "uncompetitively low, " according to a report in the Toronto Sun. Their first offer was said to be less than $900-million.

The Bills were last valued at $870-million, but are expected to sell for at least $1-billion, partly because NFL teams rarely go on the market.

The next step for approved groups to advance is to meet with both Morgan Stanley and members of the estate to obtain the franchise's financial information.

Once that is done in the coming weeks, groups will then be asked to submit formal bids. The bidding process is unsealed, meaning Wilson's estate will have the ability to ask groups to increase their bids.

Before the sale on Tuesday, Pegula's net worth was last estimated by Forbes to be $3.3-billion. He made his fortune after selling off some of his company's assets for $4.7-billion to Royal Dutch Shell in 2010.

And Pegula has the ability to increase his wealth. In announcing the sale to American Energy, Pegula said he still retains what he called "significant oil and gas assets" in Colorado, Wyoming, New York, West Virginia and his native Pennsylvania.

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