death of an owner (1 Viewer)

[bearboy]

i want to hear more thoughts on this

thanks

 

[heckmanm]

Sadly, my league is facing this as well; one of our original owners passed away from cancer last night.

We will be sending a flower/plant arrangement from the league. I plan to donate my winnings to wherever his family designates for memorials, and will offer this option to the other owners as well.

RIP, Bruce.

 

[QuizGuy66]

sorry about your loss, heckmann

-QG

 

[NOONAN]

Sadly, my league is facing this as well; one of our original owners passed away from cancer last night.We will be sending a flower/plant arrangement from the league. I plan to donate my winnings to wherever his family designates for memorials, and will offer this option to the other owners as well.RIP, Bruce.

Bruce's Boys Memorial FFLSorry for your loss. Cancer sucks.

 

[strykerpks]

We have a tight group of 12 guys. One owner passed away 3 years ago. He had muscular dystrophy so while the timing was unexpected, we all knew it was coming at some point. He passed in July and another one of our close friends took his spot. We now play for the "Joel F. Memorial Trophy". Let me tell you it is a prized posession that everyone wants a part of. We also have a picture of him with an Elvis impersonater on our league website to keep his silly sense of humor alive and well. Our divisions are named Selleck, Ritter and Schwarzenegger since he had a mild obsession with Magnum PI, Three's Company and ALL things Arnold.

Ultimately, these are small things that we did to honor our lost friend. It may seem insignificant to some and by no means was FF the extent of our friendship(s), but these little things helped everyone cope, grieve, mourn and most of all, remember.

 

[cstu]

How would you handle it if a Commish died in a 200 dollar a man league. Do you even ask the grieving Widow for the Money or just consider it a donation ?

Thats an interesting scenario. I would donate the money to the widow in this case. Its too insensitive to ask her to care about your FF while this happened to her and her family. However, since the champion of the league ended up losing the most this year, he gets to play for free next year.

This happened some years back. I got second place which was 500 bucks but I just sent the Widow a sympathy card and never ever even mentioned it either way. The person who won however - waited like 2 months after then sent a letter stating the situation and the widow sent him a check right away - He won 1000. Needless to say the draft the next year we all figured noone had had collected and I think the winner thought everyone did what he did anbd asked for the money. When we found out the guy was basically shunned into quitting the next season.

WTF? It was his money. So you gave her $500 means he's obligated to give $1000? A lot of self-righteous people in this thread.

 

[Bossman]

You want to forget about ff but it is what ya need-a distraction. A number of us went to the funeral, sent a plant from the league and made a donation to a charity in his name. In addition, we are going to name our new traveling trophy after him. this is most ironic for he never won the championship. He usually picked crazy teams but had fun. thankfully he had no kids or wife left behind. next years draft will be void without him. Haven't others had this happen?

Just lost a player about a month ago. In his 30's with 2 young children. They are still serching for the puke that killed him. Very tough to give a damn about ff.... but ff is what brought us together in the first place. We have someone running the team for him and he's 1 game away from the championship. I think we are all pulling for his team and I hope he is watching.

Police are still looking for suspects:http://www.murdersinlewistown.com/

 

[catman]

How do I replace an owner who died in a Yahoo league?

 

[finfansteve]

How do I replace an owner who died in a Yahoo league?

Does he have any heirs who may want to take over his team in his honor, or at least until you can find an owner who will be involved?

 

[catman]

How do I replace an owner who died in a Yahoo league?

Does he have any heirs who may want to take over his team in his honor, or at least until you can find an owner who will be involved?

I have another guy who is ready to step in. Do I delete the team and assign the new owner?

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

no, go to transfer teams and send the new guy an invite