Yeah, but alot of the owners who have lower revenues come from smaller, less successful markets than the Boston area. Is it really fair to expect a small market team like the Colts, or one publicly traded like the Packers, to compare to a Boston-area juggernaut?
Fair? FAIR?!?!?
Then why did that financial genius Bob Irsay hightail out of Baltimore in the middle of the night and land himself and his team into that major metropolitan area known as Indianapolis? Did he see the vast sums of money he could make out there with his product? Perhaps he saw rube politicians that would be easier to hornswoggle taxpayer money out of? Was he motivated by altruism, or something else?
Any business that's been run the way that one has cannot invoke the fairness argument.
The Packers are publically owned and traded. The city owns them. Over the years that franchise has been run more intelligently that a lot of the teams in the league. But the perhaps that paradigm is changing. They attracted the likes of Reggie White with more than a money offer. Perhaps that doesn't work today. I don't know. But given it's past, this team, perhaps more than any other, should have an appreciation for what the Krafts have done, and are doing.
Teams that toil away in mediocrity don't get to be one of these top twelve or whatever.
Mediocre teams are usually mediocre for a reason. In any organization, mediocrity starts at the top. You want answers to the mediocrity question? That's the place the start looking.
I'm sure that if it wasn't for our recent strings of success on the field, we wouldn't be the economic model of the league right now.
Oh, you're sure, are you? They are the economic model of professional sports right now because they have a very successful, dynamic management structure. Would they have had those strings of success if, say, Dom Capers (just to use a name) were at the helm on the field? Would this team, as presently construed, replicate those said strings under the management style of, say, Bidwell of Arizona?
You may have your own ideas about these things, but don't mistake equality of outcome with equality of opportunity. These teams you're mentioning have had plenty of opportunity to take advantage of the league's desire for equality of outcome, but few have done much of anything to maximize those opportunities in their own venues for the benefit of not only their own team, but the league in general.
A parasite will succeed at the expense of it's host only so long before it is expelled, or kills the host. If some of these people don't grasp that basic fact of life, they'll kill the carefully crafted stucture that's enabled them to get filthy rich without doing a damn thing.
Then where will they be?
Much more importantly, where will we, the fans, be?
