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ESPN.com ranks the 10+ best owners in the league


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thats a silly list... they might as well have asked us. Carries about the same merit.

We'll see these kinda stories coming up until the lockout gets resolved.

which reminds me... Does anyone think that the list for 100 greatest players of 2010-2011 is kind of long and stupid? How do you follow that up every year? Its garbage.

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i don't see us. i guess i'm looking in the wrong place. doesn't matter though. if Richardson is a bad owner then why do the rest of the owners have him speaking for them?

JR is a good owner....he just has taken an epic PR hit in the last year and a half.

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i don't see us. i guess i'm looking in the wrong place. doesn't matter though. if Richardson is a bad owner then why do the rest of the owners have him speaking for them?

They did. That turned out to be a disaster, so they muzzled him.

Jerry Richardson is also the #1 reason why we currently have a lockout going on.

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I think this is pretty valuable with a 'small market' team...

http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/25/most-valuable-nfl-teams-business-sports-football-valuations-10_slide_13.html

#12...given the years of existence and where we are located. I'm thinking Jerry has done a tremendous job at growing this franchise.

All depends on what you mean by being a "good" owner. Is Richardson good at squeezing every last bit of revenue from every source available to him? Sure, he's definitely a business god. How does that help anyone but him and his investors though? Does that help the fans? Nope, he raised ticket prices last year. Does that help the team? Nope, he gutted it and we went 2-14. Does that help the league? Nope, he's spearheading the lockout and making people think less highly of the league everyday.

If being a good owner means you're good at making money, then Jerry Richardson is a GREAT owner. But by every other parameter, he's been lousy for quite some time.

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