Posted on 01/12/2017 12:17:54 PM PST by C19fan
Eery relationship is built on honesty, so the San Diego Chargers should hear this as their moving vans are chugging up the 5 Freeway on their noble mission of greed.
We. Dont. Want. You.
The news broke Wednesday that Chargers owner Dean Spanos has informed NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell he is moving the team to Los Angeles, which is pretty much dreadful news for Los Angeles.
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Saskatoon will probably never get an NHL team until the Canadian dollar is stronger anyway.
One big advantage for cities like Raleigh and Nashville where hockey may as well be played by aliens is that many players absolutely love to live there.
I agree, but the owners in Buffalo and Toronto have been very reluctant to allow a new competitor in that area.
Pocklington was basically forced to trade him because he couldn't risk losing him in free agency and getting nothing in return. It was the same thing that drove the Oilers to trade all of their other big stars of that era -- including Mark Messier, Jari Kurri, Grant Fuhr, Glenn Anderson, and Kevin Lowe.
Yep. Pretty good ROI.
Attendance the last few years in Brooklyn was good.
Ebbets Field was badly located and old. O’Malley would happily have stayed if he had a new ballpark in Brooklyn. He wanted a site at Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues — the site where the Barclays Center is now. Instead, all Robert Moses was willing to consider was a site in Flushing Meadow (Queens.) As O’Malley said, “Then they wouldn’t be the BROOKLYN Dodgers, would they?”
Every year from 1945 on, the Brooklyn Dodgers drew over a million fans, which was the attendance gold standard in that era. (It’s kind of like drawing three million now.) The fans were supporting Dem Bums.
Brooklyn got screwed, and it took part of the borough’s soul. The Dodgers, and the old Brooklyn Eagle, were pretty much the soul of Brooklyn.
O’Malley is hated for the move — not without reason — but it’s as much Robert Moses’s fault as it is O’Malley’s.
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