“Tepper should step aside and let the football people run things!!” What is the point of having “Owners” then?

[Teddy2SuperBowlHeartBreaks]

If you look around the league most fans have the same complaints about their “owner” that we do Tepper. How many times do we hear “it starts at the top” in regards to multiple NFL teams and their everyday struggles. Half of the league has “issues at the top”. What NFL franchises other than maybe the Steelers and Patriots (Because of Brady)  can honestly say that the owners of the team add value to the franchise and to the sport of football?

The incompetence of NFL front offices would be a complete non story if these same people weren’t also robbing the tax payer blind. It is absurd. Mind you, the NFL isn’t “health care” or “education” or “emergency services”. It’s no different from WWE, or anything other trash reality show on TV. It is essentially a big TV show, yet they receive billions in subsidies with no clear financial benefit to anybody other than the aforementioned owners. The tax payer sees no return on the stadium subsidies, and I would argue that the average person is actually made poorer as a result of subsidies as they artificially drive up prices. So you get fuged two ways. This is also called a “train”. 
 

If municipalities are willing to spend billions in stadium subsidies, why not just buy the team? 3 months ago the city of Nashville gave the Adams family 2 billion dollars to build a new stadium. Why not put together a bid to buy the Tennessee Titans so it can be publicly owned, profits used to fund public work projects, and hiring/staffing decisions can be transparent? You probably can’t even imagine a completely transparent NFL. How much more interesting would the NFL be if the Green Bay Packers model was actually a real thing, and “shareholders” could vote on hiring and firings, draft picks, signings etc. 

 I’ll make a few assumptions.
 

1. Americans love professional football

2. professional football will generate billions of dollars in revenue each year 

3. The competence of any organizations front office is largely irrelevant as it concerns profit/loss

4. Municipalities are willing to spend billions of dollars in subsidies to these organizations 

5. The outcome of the games are largely irrelevant to world affairs 

Assuming these 5 assumptions are true, there is no reason why NFL teams shouldn’t be publicly owned. You would get a more engaging product and more equitable share of profits to generate the public at large. 

[jasonluckydog]

The owner's job is to look pretty for the cameras and take all the credit when a team wins the SB. If the team loses the owner is responsible to fire folks and throw his people under the bus.

Could you imagine if the government ran a football team? That would be fun.