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Estimates I've seen indicated that moving to Los Angeles increased the value of the Chargers franchise about $250 million. Of course that's just paper value - we won't know the true value until they try to sell. But I'm pretty sure the move has always been about increasing the asset value of the team for Spanos - he's never cared about any particular city or winning.
They haven't mentioned that as a motivation. Seems like these owners have been finding ways to make the tax hit not so crushing when they die. Pretty sure Dean wants to hand things over to his kids as well. John (his son, Alex's grandson) is heavily involved in the "management" of the team - including player evaluation/selection. So we're looking at long term suck here.
There is some cross over.
The Raiders don't want to move to L.A. because they want the free $750 million in taxpayer money for a new stadium (not to mention the low-interest loans and new Personal Seat Licenses).
This Sunday night game is rough. Had the Texans not of scored there, I would be on to Netflix.Great game with the Packers/Cowboys.
Yes, that one lived up to the hype. Of course it helped that I started Zak and my opponent started Rodgers.Great game with the Packers/Cowboys.
They better hope the 2018 NFL QB draft class produces 5-6 NFL caliber starters because Gomer, Ben and Rivers are about done, Brees only has 1-2 left as does Brady. Right now the NFL product is mostly trash. Some games like the MIA-TENN game listed above are no better than USFL level play.
And its never been about the money. Ownership of a major sports team is a prestige thing. These guys have the loot to ride out almost any storm.
So the owners see the writing on the wall but the people with billions of dollars to buy an NFL team don't?
national game yesterday blows away anything else on tv. a regular season, week 5 game tops all but about 10- 15% of MLB World Series games ever.. yet everyone says the NFL is failing.
Just curious to your thoughts around this. Do you think it will come out that the NFL decided to hide evidence that it knew about long term CTE implications and didn't do anything about it...thus destroying it's reputation? Or do you think that people in general just won't let their kids play football and then it will reduce it popularity over time? Or both?
both.
I don't have an opinion about the NFL hiding evidence, but I do think more evidence is bound to come out. Safety and caution are becoming so much different and much more of a priority than when I grew up in the 80's.
I read some information that showed the 18-35 demographic was down an estimated 20-25% of the 2015 highs which was down more significant than any other age or race.
San Diego people are still incredibly livid. ESports is now an official NCAA sport and my son might be on one of teams. He went for some initial meeting and he said he yested out 3rd best for one of the games
Congrats that’s exciting. I did E sports for a couple years in the day, crazy to see how much it changed. Towards the end almost everyone was taking Adderall and some other stuff, something to keep in mind. Lots of legal brain and focus supplements as well, although I’m not sure how well they work.
I don't think they are related. The popularity of upper class sports like lacrosse is rising and basketball in lower classes is also hurting.
Makes sense. Thanks. Dreading the day of making the official decision. My boys (twin 6 1/2 yos) absolutely love football. Already decided they won't play tackle til high school at a minimum, and not even sure if I'll let them play that. It killed me not to play when I was a kid and was pissed at my parents for it.
I don't want it to go under in any form or fashion. I think people are pissed b/c the NFL is taking its core customer for granted and thinks it's too big to fail. It isn't....I'm not talking going under, but existing as we know might not be for much longer.
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