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Re: Mary Malone Sullivan (wife of Billy) dead at age 92
Without the Sullivans who knows what we'd have. What we do have is the best team in the NFL. RIP Mrs. Sullivan and my condolences to the Sullivan family.
Re: Mary Malone Sullivan (wife of Billy) dead at age 92
We likely would still have a team, though Billy himself likely wouldn't have had a team. After all, he was just 1 of 10 original partners, including Dom DiMaggio IIRC. He never had Bob Howsam money, never mind Lamar Hunt money. It could even be argued that if another partner with more sturdy finances could've been found, the franchise might've had more success more often.
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Re: Mary Malone Sullivan (wife of Billy) dead at age 92
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We likely would still have a team, though Billy himself likely wouldn't have had a team. After all, he was just 1 of 10 original partners, including Dom DiMaggio IIRC. He never had Bob Howsam money, never mind Lamar Hunt money. It could even be argued that if another partner with more sturdy finances could've been found, the franchise might've had more success more often.
The Philadelphia organization was about to hold a press conference 10 AM Monday announcing they had been awarded the last franchise. Sunday night, Sullivan stole the franchise away.
From Annihilus' wonderful Patriots History archive at Patriots Planet.
I can't honestly say Mr. Sullivan didn't mention to me what he was up to. In fact, I couldn't avoid knowing he was on the long-distance telephone practically all day Sunday. That was after the story in Sunday's papers that Philadelphia, not Boston, had the inside track for the new league's eighth franchise
It further said Bob Carpenter, the Phil's baseball magnate, would announce his new connection with pro football at a special press conference called for 10 o'clock Monday morning...You'll notice he didn't.
There would not be other opportunities. No one would be crazy enough to invest in a team with no stadium and Boston's politics...
Which wouldn't matter because no established league would have offered a franchise without a huge, expensive, existing stadium.
Kraft bought a team with a 30 year history and a stadium, rudimentary though it was.
Re: Mary Malone Sullivan (wife of Billy) dead at age 92
Sullivan might have been the facilitator in the procurement of the 8th AFL franchise for Boston
due to his considerable PR/deal-making skills, but that alone should not have qualified him to become
the franchise's sole owner, with Chuck as the money man & Pat as the personnel man.
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Mary Malone Sullivan (wife of Billy) dead at age 92
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