Green Bay Packers a Community Owned Team

[dutch508]

of course, this is no surpise to most of Football loving America.

AnArmyVeteran  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jul-30-10 12:47 PM
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18. ALL sports teams should be OWNED by the people.   
 Edited on Fri Jul-30-10 01:03 PM by AnArmyVeteran
I'm sick of one greedy, corrupt owner getting the public to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for stadiums and not benefiting from them. Everyone in a city or county where a team is located should be allowed to buy shares with no one person owning more than 1% of the team With 100,000 people all chipping in, they could easily pay for a team and a stadium. And the stadium wouldnt be named after a *******ed company. I'd like to see a lottery and have the stadium named after someone who died serviing our country in one of the many wars. Why should stadiums, like the ex-Enron Field be named after a corrupt corporation? And all revenue would go to the people instead of a greedy, opportunistic few. This would be a 'win'-'win' situation because with 100,000 owners their would be more interest in the games and attendance would go up.

As it is, I refuse to go to my city's professional games because I hate to be gouged with $30-50 parking, huge ticket 'convenience' charges and having to eat garbage for food. Where I live they search you and won't let you bring in any food or drinks. They want to shake you down once trapped inside the stadium the CITIZENS paid for!

It's amazing how many people subject themselves to professional shakedown operations. All teams should be owned by the average person.


Btw, GW Bush violated four federal laws when he was a director at Harken Energy. He used insider information and made $848,000 by selling early. With that money he bought 1.2% of the Texas Rangers team. Why did Bush get to buy part of the team? The rest of the owners wanted access to his Bush's father who was president. A few years later the group of crooks duped the city of Arlington, Texas into paying hundreds of millions for a new stadium for the team. And since the new stadium increased the value of the baseball team the crooked owners sold the team at a great profit and didn't compensate the taxpayers with a dime. A Dallas billionaire, Richard Rainwater, was one of the owners and after the sale Bush received a huge ten million dollar bonus for doing nothing, nothing except be the son of a president. This is what 'capitalism' is. A few capitalizing off of the many, or in other words, corruption.
Y A S B T M

Yup. W's fault.

[miskie]

If the primitives want to make community owned teams a reality, they can start their own league. If it catches on, the communities will see profit.

Your first teams can be made of people who like to play football for the sake of playing football.

[Duke Nukum]

This is what 'capitalism' is. A few capitalizing off of the many, or in other words, corruption.

This sounds a lot like socialism to me.

Where has all the money gone in the US?  To Obama and his cronies in congress.

[Ptarmigan]

The stadiums are used for other events besides sporting events. They are often used for concerts and trade shows. They all contribute to the local economy. Personally, I don't go to sporting events because I can watch it on TV and get good seats.

[Wretched Excess]

the people of brown county OPTed to spend their tax dollars on lambeau field.  it's just silly to argue that their vote on that account is the result of anything other than pure democracy.

[PatriotGame]

of course, this is no surpise to most of Football loving America.
 

Yup. W's fault.

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