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  • gftChrisG gftChris

    @diehardbrownsfan said:

    Who gives a fuck what the Rolling Stone thinks?

    Unfortunately 'TopRightNews' and 'TheBlaze' have yet to come out with the definitive list, so until then, we're stuck with this.

    @gftchris said:

    Unfortunately 'TopRightNews' and 'TheBlaze' have yet to come out with the definitive list, so until then, we're stuck with this.

    Little smart ass brit!

    "You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970.

  • I can't imagine this has anything to do with football.I can see haslam if you're talking about the truck stop rebates.

  • W Westside Steve

    Lol

    I smell some politically correct jerk offery here.

    Dan Snider @ #1.

    I wonder what criteria comes to play here...

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    Lol

    I smell some politically correct jerk offery here.

    Dan Snider @ #1.

    I wonder what criteria comes to play here...

    WSS

    LOL, the Rolling Stone's political bent comes into play in that list. For those who never pick up an issue, it makes Barak Obama look like a conservative.

    @tml1138 said:

    This list is weighted on politics. More than what they actually do as a sports team owner. Because you're right, Jimmy had a rough rookie year as an owner, but he made it right quickly.

    Rolling Stone figures those owners are so rich, they should give everyone free tickets to the games.

  • jim_brownJ jim_brown

    i got to agree that dan snyder is the worst....but to baltimore fans it will always be jim irsay, for sure.....hands down.....the cocksucking thief in the night.....

    @jim_brown said:

    i got to agree that dan snyder is the worst....but to baltimore fans it will always be jim irsay, for sure.....hands down.....the cocksucking thief in the night.....

    You mean Robert Irsay, not Jim.

    jim_brownJ 1 Reply
  • W Westside Steve

    @osiris said:

    I think Jimmy Haslam being on there is a stretch. He's 10x better than Randy Lerner. Where is the credit for firing Banner and Lombardi? For Hiring Pettine and promoting Farmer?

    For that matter what exactly was the problem with Randy Lerner? He spent whatever he was asked to spend.

    Actually did what the fans wanted by hiring real football people and keeping his nose out of it.

    What is the bitch with Jimmy Haslam? Cleaned up his mess didn'the?

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    For that matter what exactly was the problem with Randy Lerner? He spent whatever he was asked to spend.

    Actually did what the fans wanted by hiring real football people and keeping his nose out of it.

    What is the bitch with Jimmy Haslam? Cleaned up his mess didn'the?

    WSS

    I thought Lerner was disengaged, not interested in the franchise all that much. Disengaged people don't make the best hiring decisions, IMO.

    And I wasn't bitching about Haslam, I was praising him. πŸ™‚

    "I said, 'I need someone who's going to want to get on the roller coaster with me knowing that it's not always going to be fun,'" -Paul DePodesta
    W 1 Reply

  • I don't think politics or anything like that goes into that list totally. Maybe a little.

    I think it is anyone that has come up for scrutiny over some issue that comes into play.

    E.g. for Snyder it is clearly the "Redskins" name issue (plus some meddling)

    For Dan Gilbert it was probably the scathing letter he wrote about LeBron when he left (though clearly they hold a grudge over that longer than LeBron does.

    For Haslam, it is the threat of indictment.

    Plus since all these magazines are so New York centric they are clearly going to put the owners of bad NY teams at the top. An owner of a team in Sacramento or Kansas City.....or Cleveland (as most of you are right....the Dolans have managed the Indians the worst imo) who is as bad or worse at running a team won't get the same treatment as a NYC team.

    For the Thunder they are just pissed because those guys move the team out of Seattle. Fair enough. But it that sort of thing.

  • Jerrry Jones has to be #1 by a long ways. He could have won 2-3 more

    Super Bowls with the talent he had on that team with Jimmy Johnson. Hell

    he even won one in spite of Barry Switzer being coach. He insists on being

    GM of the team and running the show, Snyder is terrible but he still has a

    way to go to catch Jerry.BTW Haslam and Gilbert on the list but not the Dolans

    who throw nickels around like manhole covers????

  • OsirisO Osiris

    @westside-steve said:

    For that matter what exactly was the problem with Randy Lerner? He spent whatever he was asked to spend.

    Actually did what the fans wanted by hiring real football people and keeping his nose out of it.

    What is the bitch with Jimmy Haslam? Cleaned up his mess didn'the?

    WSS

    I thought Lerner was disengaged, not interested in the franchise all that much. Disengaged people don't make the best hiring decisions, IMO.

    And I wasn't bitching about Haslam, I was praising him. πŸ™‚

    @osiris said:

    I thought Lerner was disengaged, not interested in the franchise all that much. Disengaged people don't make the best hiring decisions, IMO.

    And I wasn't bitching about Haslam, I was praising him. πŸ™‚

    Not you Osiris , I was just asking that question in a rhetorical way.

    WSS

    www.westsidesteve.com www.myspace.com/westsidestevemusic www.cdbaby.com/artist/westsidestevesimmons

  • Gipper says politics has nothing to do with it. Then he says for Snyder it was the name Redskins. Dude that's politics.

    So remove that sin from Snyders scroll and you have some meddling. Hardly enough to make him Satan in the Hades of owners.

    WSS

    www.westsidesteve.com www.myspace.com/westsidestevemusic www.cdbaby.com/artist/westsidestevesimmons

  • Of course politics is a lot of it. Rolling Stone is calling Haslam one of the worst owners on more than just the truck stop rebates, but because his company is the top supplier to the drilling and fracking industries. Doesn't get any more political than that.

    The GipperT 1 Reply

  • But to keep it on topic of football on this board, I say they miss on this aspect because Haslam fixed his rookie year mistakes. Likely the best year of Browns football since '99.

  • tml1138T tml1138

    Of course politics is a lot of it. Rolling Stone is calling Haslam one of the worst owners on more than just the truck stop rebates, but because his company is the top supplier to the drilling and fracking industries. Doesn't get any more political than that.

    @tml1138 said:

    Of course politics is a lot of it. Rolling Stone is calling Haslam one of the worst owners on more than just the truck stop rebates, but because his company is the top supplier to the drilling and fracking industries. Doesn't get any more political than that.

    So. OK, maybe then the list does not mean that these guys are the worst owners because of the way that they have mismanaged their teams.......or screwed over the fans.......but because these are just the 'baddest guys' out there because of the way they conduct their lives and business. If so, so be it. These are the worst owners from a personal life/political point of view, not a sports management point of view.

    I guess that is what I get for not reading the article.

    Edit, OK, after looking at the list it has about half to do with the management competency, and the other half because they are "personally/socially vile". Very well. Fair game I guess for Rolling Stone.

    Notwithstanding what they say here about these fatcat owners, each and every one of you wants your picture on the cover.

  • If you read the article it explains rationale

    Tour2maT 1 Reply
  • KvoetheK Kvoethe

    http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/lists/the-15-worst-owners-in-sports-20141125/jimmy-haslam-cleveland-browns-20141125

    Uncle Jimmy on the list.

    15. Charles Wang, New York Islanders

    14. The Wilpons, New York Mets

    13. The Ricketts Family, Chicago Cubs

    12. Woody Johnson, New York Jets

    11. Jerry Richardson, Carolina Panthers

    10. David Glass, Kansas City Royals

    9. Mike Brown, Cincinnati Bengals

    8. Jimmy Haslam, Cleveland Browns

    7. Dan Gilbert, Cleveland Cavaliers

    6. Clay Bennett and Aubrey McClendon, Oklahoma City Thunder

    5. The DeVos Family, Orlando Magic

    4. Jerry Jones, Dallas Cowboys

    3. James Dolan, New York Knicks/Rangers

    2. Jeffrey Loria, Miami Marlins

    1. Daniel Snyder, Washington Redskins

    @kvoethe said:

    http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/lists/the-15-worst-owners-in-sports-20141125/jimmy-haslam-cleveland-browns-20141125

    Uncle Jimmy on the list.

    15. Charles Wang, New York Islanders

    14. The Wilpons, New York Mets

    13. The Ricketts Family, Chicago Cubs

    12. Woody Johnson, New York Jets

    11. Jerry Richardson, Carolina Panthers

    10. David Glass, Kansas City Royals

    9. Mike Brown, Cincinnati Bengals

    8. Jimmy Haslam, Cleveland Browns

    7. Dan Gilbert, Cleveland Cavaliers

    6. Clay Bennett and Aubrey McClendon, Oklahoma City Thunder

    5. The DeVos Family, Orlando Magic

    4. Jerry Jones, Dallas Cowboys

    3. James Dolan, New York Knicks/Rangers

    2. Jeffrey Loria, Miami Marlins

    1. Daniel Snyder, Washington Redskins

    Art Modell and Donald Sterling are missing which leads me to believe this means current owners. Otherwise this last would lack any credibility.

    Also, the reason Haslem is on there mainly has to do with the Pilot/Flying J scandal.

  • i stopped giving a fuck about what rolling stone thought when i stepped into the 80s.

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  • miktoxicM miktoxic

    i stopped giving a fuck about what rolling stone thought when i stepped into the 80s.

    @miktoxic said:

    i stopped giving a fuck about what rolling stone thought when i stepped into the 80s.

    Mik, for me, it may have been the 70s. LOL

    Mike

    INΒ DORSEY I TRUST
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  • I think Jimmy has been a great owner.

    Our team has improved a great deal.

    The Improvements to the stadium have been tremendous

    Improvements will contiunue this off season. I can't wait to see the improvements.

    The south side of the stadium activities pre-game are fantastic.....I am going next week to see the ice sculpting...

    What this guy is talking about, I don't have a clue.......Go Jimmy!

    If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
    The GipperT 1 Reply
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  • The GipperT The Gipper

    @jim_brown said:

    i got to agree that dan snyder is the worst....but to baltimore fans it will always be jim irsay, for sure.....hands down.....the cocksucking thief in the night.....

    You mean Robert Irsay, not Jim.

    @the-gipper said:

    You mean Robert Irsay, not Jim.

    you are so right.....my bad...

  • If Brian Hoyer owned a sports team he would be #1.

    L bbedwardB 2 Replies

  • Haslam hasnt been the owner long enough to be on the list. Beyond that and more importantly I think he's done and admirable job especially considering all the person controversy. He shouldn't be on that list.

    AKA SNATCH98 or Rorbotron. The boards glorious admins decided to get cute and change my name to "homotron" Classy group of people. (Lost a bet with Columbus king and got banned for a month)
    The GipperT djdawg2010D 2 Replies
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