Sports
Related: About this forumWould you want to own a sports team?
Would you want to join Mark Cuban, Jerry Jones, George Steinbrenner, James Dolan and the like and own or purchase a sports team and be the CEO/general managing partner of a team?
Imagine running a sports team.....
GP6971
(31,106 posts)especially Steinbrenner...he's dead.
NYCButterfinger
(755 posts)George died in 2010. His son Hank died earlier this year.
https://www.live5news.com/2020/04/14/hank-steinbrenner-yankees-co-owner-dies/
GP6971
(31,106 posts)I miss the bombastic old days of the George and Billy Martin feuds.
unblock
(52,113 posts)Not generally worth it based on actually revenue.
There's a huge ego premium. You only make money if someone else comes along with an even bigger ego willing to overpay by even more.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,811 posts)and don't know enough to make any sort of reasonable owner.
Brother Buzz
(36,364 posts)That is, for as long as the money holds out.
Hell the fans would be talking about it for years; dollar beer, dollar hot dogs, dollar sodas, and free peanuts.
Capt. America
(2,477 posts)Iggo
(47,534 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I'm in my third season with the Suns sitting at 30-8 my best players are Deandre Ayton, Devin Booker, and Pascal Siakam who signed after I lost in the playoffs to New Orleans with Klay Thompson & Anthony Davis (in my game Kevin Durant stays with the Warriors).