Posted on 10/08/2017 12:24:42 PM PDT by mbrfl
Herschel’s alright........for a Bulldog.
Maybe I’ve got my history wrong, but I’m pretty sure Herschel Walker signed with the New Jersey Generals before Trump owned the team.
Oh, boy, here we go. You are proven wrong about your first nonsense about the draft not being free market, and now you’re just gonna go on and on and on and on and on and on about other nonsense. Too hard to just admit that the draft is a free market.
The “organization” is a cartel of the individual team owners. So? And your point is?
Roger Goodell is not some guy with completely independent authority over the team owners. He’s hired by the NFL owners. Yes, the NFL hired Roger. So? And your point is?
The NFL does not generate its own profits. Yes, the NFL generates its own profits. Period. The fact that they have partners is stunningly irrelevant.
TV and merchandise contracts are negotiated by the NFL, but profits are shared among the teams and reported on their individual tax returns. So? And your point is?
This is why the NFL was able to function as a “non-profit” corporation for so long until they voluntarily changed their status a couple of years ago.
That’s really not how a company like 7-11 operates. The NFL operates just like 7-11.
I will not allow you to throw up 10,000 irrelevant words to hide your embarrassment at having said that the NFL draft is not a free market thing. Please stop it.
I think Georgia has a shot against Bama, with their defense, and running game. I saw a few chinks in Bama’s armor yesterday.
Putting aside the national anthem nonsense, it should be illegal to steal hard earned money from taxpayers to fund stadiums for millionaire players and billionaire owners. They can afford to fund their own palaces.
Of course the end result of all that is: so what. Everybody likes to talk big about them being a monopoly but it means nothing. Monopolies are NOT illegal. They have activities they can’t do, but the sports leagues don’t need those things anyway. And frankly, if it comes to court they’ll win. Because they only thing they’re a monopoly in is themselves. Yes the NFL is the only source of NFL football on the planet. But they are not the only source of sports entertainment, nor the only source of football. It’s like accusing McDonalds of having the BigMac monopoly, it means nothing, and no court will do anything about it.
If you are incapable of understanding my original post, read my second one. Again.
According to a book by Michael MacCambridge, as recounted in this 2010 New York Times article, it happened when Pete Rozelle, the NFL commissioner in the 1960s, wanted to merge the NFL and the old AFL and needed an act of Congress to get around antitrust laws.
As it happened, New Orleans was trying to get a football franchise about the same time. Two of the most powerful men in Congress, House Majority Whip Hale Boggs (D) and Senate Majority Whip Russell Long (D), were Louisianans who wanted something from Rozelle: a team. Long got the exemptions inserted into a foreign aid bill. Rozelle was grateful when he ran into Boggs in the Capitol one day.
As MacCambridge recounts, Rozelle said, “Congressman Boggs, I don’t know how I can ever thank you enough for this. This is a terrific thing you’ve done.”
Said Boggs: “What do you mean you don’t know how to thank me? New Orleans gets an immediate franchise in the NFL.”
Rozelle replied equivocally: “I’m going to do everything I can to make that happen,” which prompted Boggs to suggest they could always call off the vote. “Rozelle,” MacCambridge wrote, “took two giant strides after Boggs, turned him gently around and said, ‘It’s a deal, Congressman. You’ll get your franchise.'”
Boggs finished the conversation. “‘If this doesn’t work out you will regret this for the rest of your f—ing life.'”
It worked out.
Not really. Promotion and relegation don’t really do very much. There are still the haves and the have nots and the haves stay in the upper leagues and the have nots in the lower, and a small handful of teams can’t decide if they have or have not and bounce between layers.
I checked and you're right. And I held a grudge for sooo long!
A perfect game by Georgia and a mistake from Alabama would do it. And that is possible.
He was so beloved here, the top Klansman would have married off his daughter.
LOL, I believe it.
At the corporate level, the National Football League considers itself a trade association made up of and financed by its 32 member teams. Up until 2015, the league was an unincorporated nonprofit 501(c)(6) association. Section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code provides an exemption from federal income taxation for "Business leagues, chambers of commerce, real-estate boards, boards of trade, or professional football leagues (whether or not administering a pension fund for football players), not organized for profit and no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.". In contrast, each individual team (except the non-profit Green Bay Packers is subject to tax because they make a profit.
The NFL gave up the tax exempt status in 2015 following public criticism; in a letter to the club owners, Commissioner Roger Goodell labeled it a "distraction," saying "the effects of the tax exempt status of the league office have been mischaracterized repeatedly in recent years. Every dollar of income generated through television rights fees, licensing agreements, sponsorships, ticket sales, and other means is earned by the 32 clubs and is taxable there. This will remain the case even when the league office and Management Council file returns as taxable entities, and the change in filing status will make no material difference to our business."
Is 7-11 a trade association?
LOL. It’s an easy mistake to make. Nobody ever seems to remember that the Generals had any owner other than Donald Trump.
Don’t try to change the subject.
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