Mr. WEO

Well I certainly understand NFL isn’t like other businesses. You are the one who, too many times to count, has compared it to every other business in an effort to point out I don’t understand “how business works”. Leaving this aside, in paragraph 1 you very convincingly explain why an owner “is stuck in a city” and the extreme difficulty in moving because “you can’t open a franchise anywhere you want”. Yet in paragraph 3 you state one of only 2 choices is “the team leaves”. Also, that there is no “3rd choice”. Of course there is. The public entities can call the teams bluff (“Austin” and “like San Diego” we’re laughable lies) and make the owner kick in a few hundred million more. Boom. Ticket prices? Leaving aside that’s icing on cake money for most owners and the secondary market determines what a lot of what in person attendees pay (and the vast vast majority of fans never set foot in the stadium), the cost will go “through the roof” for 50,000 season ticket holders already in the current deal via PSLs. No matter what the ticket prices would have been if Pegula has to cover the majority of the stadium costs, they would never be in the top 10 in the NFL. It’s a meaningless argument anyway. People will chose to pay or not to pay based on the perceived value. The market will force Pegulas pricing. He won’t tolerate a half empty stadium.

Did the space you rent exist before you occupied it? If you vacate the space, will the owner demolish the buildings? Did the public fisc build your buildings for you? What is about this particular business that the owners of the Rams, Patriots, Jets and Giants (heck, even the Cowboys) don’t understand that you can help them with?

What's with the Good Morning Football fetish?

I run a small business and I am a tenant in a hospital based setting. Stick to what you know and save yourself the struggle of guessing what I don't.

After the PSL's, there will be much less than 25% funded by the Pegulas themselves. Again, as said above, the stadium as an asset isn't worth much. It replaces another asset serving the same purpose that is essentially paid for, recently renovated for 130 million and soon to be demolished. It can't be sold as a property because no other business has a use for it other than it's future sole tenant.

Not true for all types of homes. Co-ops in the city for example. Until the mortgage is paid, the bank holds your "share" (like a deed) to the apartment you purchased. But the fact remains, as you say: I am a homeowner.

I have a mortgage which I will pay a bank over time. I'm still called a "homeowner" before I fully pay it off. There doesn't need to be another way than that. Kroenke didn't pull out his wallet and hand his contractors 5 billion. He financed the vast majority of it. He's on the hook for that. Of course a business owner pays for the building he/she has built--and it is payed off with the business's revenue.

"Pegula" will pay a fraction of that 40% you cite.

The team he worked for for 19 years?

lol, come on....

No one is arguing otherwise. The point is....owners simply want it anyway.

He's not a RB. He's never had more than 8 carries a game---and that began in WEEK 11. That isn't running him into the ground in any real way. 6-8 carries a game next year downs't quite put him up there with, say, Zeke's 1650 carries in 6 years or, say, Cook's 1200 touches in only 5 years. He's a WR who they ask to run a handful of times a game. Then he doesn't really think he's being "run into the ground"--he just wants more money, which is fine.

Hail to the real #12!!

"Any talk of the Ravens, Bucs, Browns, Titans, Steelers, Broncos, Seahawks, Lions and Texans getting new stadiums, which are at or over the 20 year mark?" "I the next 10 years you will hear calls for many of those stadiums to be replaced. The RCA Dome made it to 23 years. Silverdome made int to 26 years. 3 Rivers made it to 30. Giants stadium 33. Bills stadium is the only place hitting 50 without a major overhaul. Other than the above, there is no stadium over 35 years old."

Stop with this already! lol.. This guy is 3 years in and he has a career total under 250 touches. He's one of the lowest mileage 4th year WRs or RBs in then league. And "make him happy"? Why, it was just a few months ago, at the Pro Bowl, where he was absolutely giddy over his role in the 49ers Offense: “We’ve got a new position,” Samuel told sideline reporter Lisa Salters on the ESPN broadcast. “It’s called wide back. Wide receiver playing running back.” Now they are "running him into the ground". Come on..

yeah...like I said

like I said.....

you don't say...

Even with “more protection”, Josh Allen, with runs, sacks and WB hits was put on the ground while running or otherwise NOT receiving, over 210 times last year. As others have pointed out, Samuels value, whether he likes it or not, is now as a dual threat WR. Any team he goes to will expect the same from him as Shanahan did.

His narrative of being run into the ground is a bit melodramatic. He averaged 3.7 carries per game. 11 QBs had more than that--Taylor Heinicke was one of them...

As always, Gunner's knowledge of this game puts most of ours to shame. It's heartwarming to know (by such a site) a highly evolved European with a mind that has not been dulled by the monotony and simplicity of.....soccer!! Cheers, good man!

I thought he wanted a big payday.. That got Watson 230 million guaranteed...

wow. guess that wasn't the Mrs in the car with him...

Happy Birthday you LAMP'n MOFO!

It's at 36 cents (+0.3%) above. The company misses every quarterly report and receives notices from NASDAQ for this--these are the only "press releases" on the company's website.. As of December it hadn't made a single acquisition, yet it's expenses are in the millions. SEC last fall said that if they don't make an acquisition by July, the fund will have to liquidate.