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Great read from ESPN on the NFL/Los Angelos Rams/Raider/Chargers merry-go-around
02-11-2016 11:47 AM
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Wow, that is a long article. Skimmed through it briefly.

I guess at the end: so Jerry Jones and Stan Kroenke own the NFL now?
02-11-2016 12:09 PM
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(02-11-2016 12:09 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  Wow, that is a long article. Skimmed through it briefly.

I guess at the end: so Jerry Jones and Stan Kroenke own the NFL now?

Yeah...long article but Jerry Jones is extremely powerful and JMO Stan Kroenke is now a power broker as well.

Davis and Spanos not so much
02-11-2016 12:20 PM
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RE: Great read from ESPN on the NFL/Los Angelos Rams/Raider/Chargers merry-go-around
A very long read. Looks like much of it, but not all, is based on sources sympathetic to Spanos -- the article reports some bitterness about Goodell not being hands-on, and about NFL vice president Grubman favoring Inglewood over Carson, and it has Spanos' version of his 2013 meeting with Kroenke about Inglewood.

Looks like the Panthers' owner Richardson convinced Spanos that he could push through whatever Richardson's committee of old-guard owners recommended, but that both Richardson and Spanos misread the situation about two things: (1) There were several owners who supported giving the Chargers the opportunity to move to LA, but didn't necessarily support Carson, and (2) When the Inglewood and Carson proposals were presented side by side, Inglewood looked glitzy and thoroughly prepared (as any of Kroenke's major development proposals probably do) and the Carson proposal looked inadequate in contrast and fell flat with the owners.
02-11-2016 12:24 PM
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Wow, Jerry ******* Jones. Never have I liked him as much as when I read this:

The dueling proposals did not only represent the NFL's most recent, best opportunity to return to Los Angeles. They had also become the centerpiece of a chaotic power struggle among the league's 32 owners, between the so-called new-money group, with members who all supported Inglewood, and the old guard, most of whom favored Carson. Going into the meeting, most believed Carson had more votes. But one moment, many would later recall, seemed to halt its momentum. Michael Bidwill, president of the Cardinals and a Carson supporter, argued that the NFL doesn't exist just to make rich owners richer. Owners needed to consider what would be best for the league, and ...

Jones cut him off: "When you guys moved the team from St. Louis to Phoenix -- it wasn't about the money?"

As Bidwill tried to answer, Jones moved in for the kill: "You did it for the money."

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Before the meeting ended, Jones, as would be his habit, took control. He delivered a rollicking, profanity-laced eight-minute endorsement of Kroenke's monumental vision, saying in his Arkansas drawl that whichever owner returned to Los Angeles, he needed to have "big balls."

It was awkward and hilarious. Everyone, including Kroenke, tried not to laugh. But it was also a welcomed sentiment for the new-money owners such as Dan Snyder of the Redskins and Jeffrey Lurie of the Eagles, who backed Inglewood. "If you want to do it right," Jones continued, "you have to step up."
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Good excerpt Corbett.

Yeah. The National Jerry Jones League.
02-11-2016 03:07 PM
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(02-11-2016 01:20 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  Wow, Jerry ******* Jones. Never have I liked him as much as when I read this:

The dueling proposals did not only represent the NFL's most recent, best opportunity to return to Los Angeles. They had also become the centerpiece of a chaotic power struggle among the league's 32 owners, between the so-called new-money group, with members who all supported Inglewood, and the old guard, most of whom favored Carson. Going into the meeting, most believed Carson had more votes. But one moment, many would later recall, seemed to halt its momentum. Michael Bidwill, president of the Cardinals and a Carson supporter, argued that the NFL doesn't exist just to make rich owners richer. Owners needed to consider what would be best for the league, and ...

Jones cut him off: "When you guys moved the team from St. Louis to Phoenix -- it wasn't about the money?"

As Bidwill tried to answer, Jones moved in for the kill: "You did it for the money."


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Before the meeting ended, Jones, as would be his habit, took control. He delivered a rollicking, profanity-laced eight-minute endorsement of Kroenke's monumental vision, saying in his Arkansas drawl that whichever owner returned to Los Angeles, he needed to have "big balls."

It was awkward and hilarious. Everyone, including Kroenke, tried not to laugh. But it was also a welcomed sentiment for the new-money owners such as Dan Snyder of the Redskins and Jeffrey Lurie of the Eagles, who backed Inglewood. "If you want to do it right," Jones continued, "you have to step up."

The bold was Jerry Jones Drop the Mic moment...
02-15-2016 01:16 PM
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