NFL Ownership - It's All About The Money?
Picking up where we left off yesterday...
Looks like our DAL pick is wrong, as the Cowboys were eliminated....HOU only needs to win one (@TEN, vs. JAX) to take the AFC South division. Even with third string Brandon Weedon at QB, the Texans should be able to pull that off, right?
Ask the Cowboys about those odds, as coach Jason Garrett and owner Jerry Jones both went EEG flatline and left Kellen Moore sitting on the bench, while Weedon (released Week 11) and Matt Cassell (obtained from Buffalo in a desperation trade) went a collective 1-9 in Tony Romo's absence. Had the Cowboys went 5-5, which I think they easily could have with Moore at QB, they would have been in a position to win the division this Sun @ BUF. Are both Garrett and Jones braindead? Or is there more to the story?
We have Nattered before about the NFL's lack of conscience, discipline and front office management leadership, which has led to the games slide into the WWF category of fan respect, and here we go again. Oh well, owners such as Jones are why Garrett and coaches like him, and QB's like Cassell, make the big bucks. Sad to see a formerly astute Jones who produced 3 SB rings in 4 years, sinking to the bottom of the ownership dead pool, next to corpses such as the York's in SF, and to be characterized as...
With only 5 winning seasons out of 16 since the year 2000, Cowboy faithful have been watching in shock and horror. Why? Because you don't need brains to own an NFL franchise, just inherit it or have enough bank to get in the club and then manage to obtain, usually through municipal extortion, a newer stadium with corporate box revenue. The game? Who cares? The Fan's? Fuck'em because the TV contract and merchandising revenues take care of the rest.
Even though the York's claim to not be hands on, having a GM installed as a middle man, they have been open practitioners of value extraction since Ed DeBartolo was forced out. The minute the York's got their new Santa Clara stadium deal inked, out went coach Jim Harbaugh despite his winning ways (three straight NFC title appearances, one Superbowl) while turning the franchise around on a dime from day one. Difference's with the front office (headed by the York's 35 year old son Jed, so much for not being hands on) were cited and a complete dismantling of the team has ensued. Pathetic indeed for Niner faithful, and bottomline, Eddie D. 23 years, five SB rings, the Yorks 16 years, zero rings. Leading to true Niner fans chanting, bring back Eddie. But that's not all...
Across the Bay, when the game had passed Al Davis by, as the Raider Nation stood by in shock and horror, that enfeebled general manager ran the Raiders into the ground producing 3 winning seasons out of 20, since 1995. Does that sound familiar to Cowboy fans? FYI, in recent years, there were three NFL owners who also held the hands on title of GM, can you name two of them? Hint, Hint.
When the Raiders could not extort a stadium out of Oakland/Alameda, they moved to LA in 1982. When they could not extort anything out of SoCal taxpayers other than $10M from the idiots in Irwindale, they moved back to Oakland after an inexplicable capitulation against taxpayer wishes to expand the Coliseum. The 1995 return was supported by the fans via a very lucrative additional PSL (personal seat license). In addition, taxpayers from Berkeley to Fremont remain on the hook for more than $100 million in renovations to a stadium the team now wants torn down. Say What???
Now Da Raiders, who have for decades exemplified anything but their once synonymous motto: "A Commitment to Excellence" threaten to move to LA again??? To share a proposed $1.8 billion stadium in Carson with non other than turncoat Spanos. San Diego expanded the Murph, but Spano' can't get a new stadium with boxes - WAH!!! and his SD Chargers who want to bolt up the coast. Wonder how that PSL and those stadium expansion bond deals are working out for Raiders and Chargers fans right about now?
And the flot plickens, meanwhile Kroenke's St. Louis Rams, who left the LA Coliseum in 1979 for Anaheim Stadium, and in 1995 under Georgia Frontiere, because they couldn't get a new stadium with boxes, fled Orange County for a new stadium in St. Louis, also clamor after 20 long years to return to the vast LA fan base and TV market with a proposed stadium in Inglewood. In summary, LA without NFL presence since 1995, could have three teams within the next few years, with faithful fan bases in Oakland, San Diego and St. Louis becoming NFL ghost towns. Oh, the humanity of it all.
I thought all the drama surrounding the escalation of bad behavior by players and a lack of "game" balls by the commissioners office was denigrating to the game. All of this bad behavior and juju, by ownership, is indicative of what the NFL has become and is really all about. It's no longer about football, it's not a pastime, it's not about the integrity of the game, screw that, it's the entertainment business and its all about the money.
Disgraceful for the NFL and harmful to the game. Anyone who wants a pro sports franchise, you better wake up and smell the coffee, not Mrs. Olson. If the owners want those stadiums, and all the lucrative profits that must come with building and operating them, then don't you think they would do it themselves? If that was the true case, then these owners wouldn't be threatening to move in the first place. They would go ahead and privately fund and build those profit centers right where they are now, why go through the hassle of moving?
Oh Nattering One, you mean there isn't profit in renting those facilities back to the teams? Again, if there was, would not the owners want to profit from it? Leaving only one logical conclusion, after luxury box and TV contract revenues are purloined by the owners, those facilities operate hugely at a loss on the public's dime.
Yes, there can be offsetting positive economic impacts as well as costs surrounding pro sports team and other stadium events. But what happens when the owners can't get their way, then become unreasonable and threaten through essentially extortion? We know all too well that those in city government are not the sharpest knife or brightest crayons in the box. But if the benefit to those municipalities was really so large, don't you think they would capitulate and keep their teams? After all it is all about the money and those on the public dole can figure that out.
Bottom line, not one penny of taxpayer or fan sponsored compensation or expense should be metered out to these owners. LA, Carson and Inglewood should send a message to the league and its network sponsors, would really hold the purse strings, by telling these turncoat mercenary owners and the slack jawed NFL commissioners office to shove it. In case you couldn't connect the dots, the answer to the trivia question above was: Al Davis, Oakland; Jerry Jones, Dallas; and Mike Brown, Cincinnati.
Looks like our DAL pick is wrong, as the Cowboys were eliminated....HOU only needs to win one (@TEN, vs. JAX) to take the AFC South division. Even with third string Brandon Weedon at QB, the Texans should be able to pull that off, right?
Ask the Cowboys about those odds, as coach Jason Garrett and owner Jerry Jones both went EEG flatline and left Kellen Moore sitting on the bench, while Weedon (released Week 11) and Matt Cassell (obtained from Buffalo in a desperation trade) went a collective 1-9 in Tony Romo's absence. Had the Cowboys went 5-5, which I think they easily could have with Moore at QB, they would have been in a position to win the division this Sun @ BUF. Are both Garrett and Jones braindead? Or is there more to the story?
We have Nattered before about the NFL's lack of conscience, discipline and front office management leadership, which has led to the games slide into the WWF category of fan respect, and here we go again. Oh well, owners such as Jones are why Garrett and coaches like him, and QB's like Cassell, make the big bucks. Sad to see a formerly astute Jones who produced 3 SB rings in 4 years, sinking to the bottom of the ownership dead pool, next to corpses such as the York's in SF, and to be characterized as...
With only 5 winning seasons out of 16 since the year 2000, Cowboy faithful have been watching in shock and horror. Why? Because you don't need brains to own an NFL franchise, just inherit it or have enough bank to get in the club and then manage to obtain, usually through municipal extortion, a newer stadium with corporate box revenue. The game? Who cares? The Fan's? Fuck'em because the TV contract and merchandising revenues take care of the rest.
Even though the York's claim to not be hands on, having a GM installed as a middle man, they have been open practitioners of value extraction since Ed DeBartolo was forced out. The minute the York's got their new Santa Clara stadium deal inked, out went coach Jim Harbaugh despite his winning ways (three straight NFC title appearances, one Superbowl) while turning the franchise around on a dime from day one. Difference's with the front office (headed by the York's 35 year old son Jed, so much for not being hands on) were cited and a complete dismantling of the team has ensued. Pathetic indeed for Niner faithful, and bottomline, Eddie D. 23 years, five SB rings, the Yorks 16 years, zero rings. Leading to true Niner fans chanting, bring back Eddie. But that's not all...
Across the Bay, when the game had passed Al Davis by, as the Raider Nation stood by in shock and horror, that enfeebled general manager ran the Raiders into the ground producing 3 winning seasons out of 20, since 1995. Does that sound familiar to Cowboy fans? FYI, in recent years, there were three NFL owners who also held the hands on title of GM, can you name two of them? Hint, Hint.
When the Raiders could not extort a stadium out of Oakland/Alameda, they moved to LA in 1982. When they could not extort anything out of SoCal taxpayers other than $10M from the idiots in Irwindale, they moved back to Oakland after an inexplicable capitulation against taxpayer wishes to expand the Coliseum. The 1995 return was supported by the fans via a very lucrative additional PSL (personal seat license). In addition, taxpayers from Berkeley to Fremont remain on the hook for more than $100 million in renovations to a stadium the team now wants torn down. Say What???
Now Da Raiders, who have for decades exemplified anything but their once synonymous motto: "A Commitment to Excellence" threaten to move to LA again??? To share a proposed $1.8 billion stadium in Carson with non other than turncoat Spanos. San Diego expanded the Murph, but Spano' can't get a new stadium with boxes - WAH!!! and his SD Chargers who want to bolt up the coast. Wonder how that PSL and those stadium expansion bond deals are working out for Raiders and Chargers fans right about now?
And the flot plickens, meanwhile Kroenke's St. Louis Rams, who left the LA Coliseum in 1979 for Anaheim Stadium, and in 1995 under Georgia Frontiere, because they couldn't get a new stadium with boxes, fled Orange County for a new stadium in St. Louis, also clamor after 20 long years to return to the vast LA fan base and TV market with a proposed stadium in Inglewood. In summary, LA without NFL presence since 1995, could have three teams within the next few years, with faithful fan bases in Oakland, San Diego and St. Louis becoming NFL ghost towns. Oh, the humanity of it all.
I thought all the drama surrounding the escalation of bad behavior by players and a lack of "game" balls by the commissioners office was denigrating to the game. All of this bad behavior and juju, by ownership, is indicative of what the NFL has become and is really all about. It's no longer about football, it's not a pastime, it's not about the integrity of the game, screw that, it's the entertainment business and its all about the money.
Disgraceful for the NFL and harmful to the game. Anyone who wants a pro sports franchise, you better wake up and smell the coffee, not Mrs. Olson. If the owners want those stadiums, and all the lucrative profits that must come with building and operating them, then don't you think they would do it themselves? If that was the true case, then these owners wouldn't be threatening to move in the first place. They would go ahead and privately fund and build those profit centers right where they are now, why go through the hassle of moving?
Oh Nattering One, you mean there isn't profit in renting those facilities back to the teams? Again, if there was, would not the owners want to profit from it? Leaving only one logical conclusion, after luxury box and TV contract revenues are purloined by the owners, those facilities operate hugely at a loss on the public's dime.
Yes, there can be offsetting positive economic impacts as well as costs surrounding pro sports team and other stadium events. But what happens when the owners can't get their way, then become unreasonable and threaten through essentially extortion? We know all too well that those in city government are not the sharpest knife or brightest crayons in the box. But if the benefit to those municipalities was really so large, don't you think they would capitulate and keep their teams? After all it is all about the money and those on the public dole can figure that out.
Bottom line, not one penny of taxpayer or fan sponsored compensation or expense should be metered out to these owners. LA, Carson and Inglewood should send a message to the league and its network sponsors, would really hold the purse strings, by telling these turncoat mercenary owners and the slack jawed NFL commissioners office to shove it. In case you couldn't connect the dots, the answer to the trivia question above was: Al Davis, Oakland; Jerry Jones, Dallas; and Mike Brown, Cincinnati.
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