Congratulations to the Green Bay Packers, winners of Super Bowl whatever, the pre-eminent festival of gluttonous consumption. Actually it was a great game. But I’m not here to Monday morning quarterback—Blogtown ain’t no home for sports babble.
It is worth point out, however, that the Packers are the only publicly owned franchise in all of major sports. Technically, they’re a non-profit. Over 100,000 fans own some near-five million shares. Each shareholder is limited to 200,000 shares.
Green Bay’s business model, however, runs contrary to John Canzano’s recent assertion that Portland fans are the ones who really own the Trail Blazers. In acutality, Blazer fans are at the mercy of a stoic billionaire who helicopters from one playboy toy to the next like a ping pong ball. Without landing a Kevin Durant type player in the draft, Portland stays relevant largely through Allen’s checkbook, depending on how wide he decides to open it (sorry Greg Oden). As of late, things are in flux.
The NBA is hemorrhaging dollars and headed towards a labor crisis. So is the NFL, despite is raking in record numbers and profit. But that the Packers, a publicly-owned team in a small media market can band together—organize, if you will—to win the Super Bowl, surely it is also a win for workers everywhere.
Or at least through the lens of sensationalized sports writing.
Soooo.. at your Super Bowl party you ate Tur-Duc-Hen (I would totally try it, we had a real turducken for thanksgiving last year and while we’d never repeat it, it was fun to try something new and meat-related) and then you talked about the fiscal structure of the Blazers?
I dunno, I woulda drank shitloads of beer or something.
“Gluttonous” was the word you wanted there. Unless…No, “glutenous” both isn’t a word and isn’t what you meant.
is this post making fun of the common man? I can’t tell if it is super snarky or not.
ACUTALITY!
Who cares? What does the Superbowl have to do with the Trailblazers? I to have heard idiots say that about the Blazers(aside from Canzano who himself is a schmuck), and they are delusional. There will NEVER be a “fan” owned or controlled NBA team and the Blazers problems don’t stem from money, they stem from a history of bad choices. I love how Blazer “fan” (I don’t mean the die hards) generally does’nt understand the game OR the league, based on what I hear uttered. Incidentally the Packers won based on talent, coaching and effort…it had fuck all to do with who owns the team although I do admit it is a nice win for the little guy. Obviously you don’t understand the sheer dedication of Packers fans if you are comparing the two, or perhaps that was your point
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FC Barcelona is also community owned.
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