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  • 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

    IN 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.

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  • 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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  • The first thing I would do with that list is to remove Jimmy Haslam & replace him with Larry Dolan...what a waste HE is!

    Mike

    IN DORSEY I TRUST

  • C'mon Jim Irsay got busted with all the oxycontin, shit hammered driving his car. That's gotta at least be as bad as fucking up some rebates at the truck stop...

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  • Someone mentioned Art Modell. Hell, if we're mentioning PAST owners, Ted Stepien is a "slam dunk" for the list.

    Mike

    IN DORSEY I TRUST
  • S Shadow

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

    @shadow said:

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

    LOL

  • S Shadow

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

    @shadow said:

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

    Is there a new Stockton in town?

  • KvoetheK Kvoethe

    If you read the article it explains rationale

    @kvoethe said:

    If you read the article it explains rationale

    What a concept!

    Not political beliefs per se, but "questionable" bizness practices. Then the view of those practices, like the WSH team name, tend to fall along partisan lines...

    Haslam may have overseen a rebate ripoff, but he appears to be a strong organization manager. Strength exhibited by his reorg of the Browns with clearly delineated responsibilities and selection of what appear to be very capable people to run his organization followed by limited interference. Witness word that while he wanted to be informed of the Hoyer/ Manziel decision, he did not participate in it.

    Remember that our Jimmy's "false start" with Banner, Heckert and Chud was forced upon him by the league.

    Snyder on the other hand has been "hands on" from the start of his disastrous ownership.

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  • ballpeenB ballpeen

    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!

    @ballpeen said:

    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!

    Well, as noted, it has more to do with outside business practices than his management of the team.

    I guess if you are being investigated by the FBI and IRS and potentially subject to indictment you get on this list. Plus, clearly RS hates fracking and anyone involved in fracking....or supplying frackers is on their shit list.

    ballpeenB 1 Reply
  • VagitronV Vagitron

    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.

    @vagitron said:

    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.

    It is because of that personal/outside business controversy that he is on the list apparently.

  • The GipperT The Gipper

    @ballpeen said:

    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!

    Well, as noted, it has more to do with outside business practices than his management of the team.

    I guess if you are being investigated by the FBI and IRS and potentially subject to indictment you get on this list. Plus, clearly RS hates fracking and anyone involved in fracking....or supplying frackers is on their shit list.

    @the-gipper said:

    Well, as noted, it has more to do with outside business practices than his management of the team.

    I guess if you are being investigated by the FBI and IRS and potentially subject to indictment you get on this list. Plus, clearly RS hates fracking and anyone involved in fracking....or supplying frackers is on their shit list.

    I can agree to a degree, but to me that has nothing to do with being a owner, at least in a sports sense.

    Now, that said, I am quite sure you know that it doesn't matter what some people think, in a legal sense, that doesn't matter. All that matters is what you can prove.

    Jimmy says he didn't know. I take him at his word until others can prove otherwise. For me at least, what other position is there to take?

    I am damn glad the guy owns my team. We have seen this whole Factory of Sadness crap go away.

    If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
  • ballpeenB ballpeen

    @the-gipper said:

    Well, as noted, it has more to do with outside business practices than his management of the team.

    I guess if you are being investigated by the FBI and IRS and potentially subject to indictment you get on this list. Plus, clearly RS hates fracking and anyone involved in fracking....or supplying frackers is on their shit list.

    I can agree to a degree, but to me that has nothing to do with being a owner, at least in a sports sense.

    Now, that said, I am quite sure you know that it doesn't matter what some people think, in a legal sense, that doesn't matter. All that matters is what you can prove.

    Jimmy says he didn't know. I take him at his word until others can prove otherwise. For me at least, what other position is there to take?

    I am damn glad the guy owns my team. We have seen this whole Factory of Sadness crap go away.

    @ballpeen said:

    I can agree to a degree, but to me that has nothing to do with being a owner, at least in a sports sense.

    I agree, of course.

    What I would like to see is who are the worst owners from a pure sports sense. Who have mismanaged their franchise the worst....or done things to screw the fans. (like moving their team)

    A few of those guys could likely still be on that list: Dolan owner of the Knicks. The Bennetts in OKC. Maybe Jerry. Maybe even Snyder....he likely would be on that list

    Now, that said, I am quite sure you know that it doesn't matter what some people think, in a legal sense, that doesn't matter. All that matters is what you can prove.

    Jimmy says he didn't know. I take him at his word until others can prove otherwise. For me at least, what other position is there to take?

    I am damn glad the guy owns my team. We have seen this whole Factory of Sadness crap go away.

    If the Feds are cool with Jimmy, then so am I.

  • Bottom line is this, as far as I am concerned: There are 122 franchises in the 4 major sports. (123 if you still consider the Sonics a continuing franchise...just inactive).

    I suggest that you could count on one hand those that have not had their snout out wanting to sup from the public trough for money to pay for their place of business. Can we name any that have not done that?

    I believe Jerry World may have been built entirely privately....or at least with more private money than most other stadia/arenas.

    Of course, the Packers are owned by the city....so that is a special case. (is that the case with any other team? I don't think so.

  • My opinion is if people think a pro sports team shouldn't reveive public support, maybe they should move to a city that doesn't have a pro sports team.

    Here in Chattanooga we have a AA baseball team. Just signed a contract with the Twins. Had been with the Dodgers for 3-4 years.

    The point is the city owns the stadium and they know how important a AA baseball team is to the city. The team provides jobs and tax revenue. It's ignorant for people to think teams should pay for it all when there are multiple choices for team to go,

    One would think Clevelanders. if anyone, would get it once the Browns moved. Model got a better deal. The city of Baltimore did what the city of Cleveland could/should have done.

    Juist saying......if you have a team, be it NFL or AA Baseball, you need to keep it if you want to keep it.

    If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
    Tour2maT 1 Reply

  • like any type of relationship. don't take anything for granted.

    DieHardBrownsFanD 1 Reply

  • Still, sports teams get deals for their facilities that most other businesses don't get. Now, mind you other types of businesses DO get support from city/county/state governments. I sit on the local economic development board and it is our function to make arrangements to bring business to town. A lot of times we and the city will bend over backward to bring in jobs.....but probably nothing like what a sports team gets.

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