A little insight into NFL ownership

[Mr. Scot]

Here's a slice of behind the scenes NFL life from ESPN's Seth Wickersham and Don Van Natta. It's a story about some of the arguing, haggling, and finagling that went on when the NFL was trying to get the Los Angeles situation sorted out.

Former Panthers owner Jerry Richardson has a small, but interesting part in the story. Interesting in that you see a little bit about how the owners interact with each other (they're not always so monolithic as they might seem).

Inside the fight for Los Angeles

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The following month in San Francisco, Spanos dined with a small group of owners who were convinced his project would prevail. "We got you," said Jerry Richardson, the Carolina Panthers' then-owner who had tried to bully owners to vote for Carson. They raised a glass, and Richardson spent the rest of the dinner trashing Kroenke. But Richardson had overestimated his power of intimidation -- and underestimated Jones' persistent charm. Twenty-four hours before the vote in Houston, Spanos walked into a conference room where a clutch of owners had been deliberating. On a whiteboard, the two options that had been on the table for a year -- "STAN/LA" and "CHARGERS-RAIDERS/CARSON" -- were crossed out. A new option, a Jones-driven last-minute compromise, had appeared: "STAN-DEAN/LA." Spanos knew he had lost.

Before the secret ballots were counted, Colts owner Jim Irsay pulled Spanos aside and said, "This is for the best."

[Davidson Deac II]

Moving one team to LA was foolish.  Moving two was an idiotic decision.  They make any other teams fan support look great by comparison.   It may have been a good short term move for both franchises, but for their long term health, it was just a foolish move. 

[Mr. Scot]

I never liked the L.A. idea.

I like the London idea even less.

[mc52beast]

Did they vote on whether they approved of Kraft visiting that “establishment” in Florida?

[SBiii]

On 11/22/2019 at 5:07 PM, Davidson Deac II said:

Moving one team to LA was foolish.  Moving two was an idiotic decision.  They make any other teams fan support look great by comparison.   It may have been a good short term move for both franchises, but for their long term health, it was just a foolish move. 

You nailed it.

There's a reason multiple teams have left LA in the past --- it is a crappy market for the business of the NFL.

A tangential bummer is that the CLT City Council fell for Ol' Jer's bluff that he might move the Panthers to L.A. and just wrote him a big fat check for stadium reno's that he should have paid for on his own.

[SBiii]

On 11/22/2019 at 5:08 PM, Mr. Scot said:

I like the London idea even less.

Complete non-starter.

[Snake]

It's not surprising JJ would come up with something that stupid. Honestly JRs idea would have been better and less bloody. 

[Moo Daeng]

LA certainly needed a team. It's a no brainer. Two at the same time was dumb.