JohnC Posted October 8, 2009 Posted October 8, 2009 You obviously don't understand. As with business, sports teams' success or failure rides on effective and good management. Without this, no organization can prosper. You can luck out and find good players, but management easily cancels good players. I'm well aware that RW has a clear strategy. It involves gaining every dollar he can out of this franchise before he passes so that he can set up the family. Signing TO was a move he probably didn't want to make, but understood he needed to do something to make up for retaining DJ. BillsVet, The sad fact of the matter is if he sold the team now, even for a home town discount, his family is still well situated. It is nothing but raw greed and selfishness that motivates this obnoxious owner. When you are in his income strata what is the difference between $800 million or $1 Billion dollars? How much is enough? When one of the Rooney brothers wanted to sell his share of the Steelers in order for estate planning he sold it to his brother rather than to another bidder who was willing to pay more. When Modell owned the Baltimore Ravens and was going to sell he brought in Bischetti (sic) a wealthy tech person from Baltimore as a partner. He worked it out that he would have the first option to buy when he did sell. When Huizenga sold the Dolphins he made a similar arragnement with his prospective buyer. Could Ralph do the same thing? Of course he could. But he won"t. For the simple reason is that he wants to the team to go to the highest bidder.
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