Reports: Jerry Jones Profits From Influencing Team Relocations, NFL Wanted Oakland To Evict A's

Reports: Jerry Jones Profits From Influencing Team Relocations, NFL Wanted Oakland To Evict A's

Smh.... so much for "integrity"

Also, shame on Las Vegas City Council for approving gigantic amounts of public money for the new stadium, while making budget cuts to public schools!

That whole story just makes me want to puke. Vegas City Council and Jerrah= scumbags.

jimnance said:

That whole story just makes me want to puke. Vegas City Council and Jerrah= scumbags.

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Actually it gets worse, Raiders pay $1 a year in rent, the team gets naming rights and sponsorship revenue... The ROI for the city has to be a loser.....

Raiders pick Vegas site, propose naming rights, $1 rent, more

I don't necessarily have a problem with Jerrah and LV forking over the money for the stadium...whatever.

I still hate the fact the Raiduhs are moving but its the way of the world.

Cutting school budgets (at least the parts that aren't bloated) and increasing class sizes is disgusting.

C'mon, there are very valuable lessons for young people in what Las Vegas City Council did. Life lessons...ones that will last.

Didn't see it noted that Stephen Jones is part of the stadium committee as well.

Relocation fees are split up between the others owners and are in the $350 million to $600 million range per move. Jones get will get that on top of the building contracts. Owners have gotten over $50 million the last year or so alone.

There aren't going to be a lot of moves voted down when upwards of $20 million dollars in free money per owner is at stake.

Clonamery said:

C'mon, there are very valuable lessons for young people in what Las Vegas City Council did. Life lessons...ones that will last.

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Problem is that the Vegas City Council seems to want those young people not to be able to learn how to read about what they did...a pathetic and sick, but effective, strategy...

Why the surprise? Owning an NFL Franchise is a license to print money.

This would never happen in the UK... Tottenham Hotspur's new £800m stadium is being built from the clubs own money. Not a penny from owners or public finance.

It's shameful in today's world where cuts are made to schooling and social needs to fill the pockets of Billionaires. Tottenham have even built a college and will be adding a General Practice building (GP Doctors dropin) within its scheme.

jerry jones's company legends that is benefiting from these moves is going to be worth more then some franchises because of this move.

****ing crazy sauce.

The relocation fees are insignificant for the 31 beneficiaries when the big picture for all teams is elevating valuations. Two years ago, the Raiders were the 31st most valuable NFL team. With Vegas going forward, the Raiders have leaped frogged half the league.
As the old saying goes, "A rising tide lifts all the boats".....And this relocation will lift team valuations for most if not all by hundreds of millions. Cash is great but equity is the goal

Back in the day there used to be a trust between the blue collar guy and the white collar guy or the Managerial class and the populace. I used to say yes sir to a doctor or lawyer etc.... Today the trust is non existent. It's gone. Politicians suck. But what sucks the most are the ignorant sheople who follow these ass hats. We like to ***** about stuff like this but fail to show up to local elections. All these guys have to do is kiss a baby, promise things will get better and sit in a chair that was bought and paid for by the JJ's of the world.

The student/teacher ratio has little if any influence on the quality of education a student receives. You take from it what you put into it, for better or worse.

I knew they all profited from relocation fees but I didn't realize one had a business interest so directly tied in. Although, it sounds to me like Jones makes a ton of money from any new stadium so it wouldn't necessarily have to be a relocation for him to profit.

Still, it's quite the conflict of interest. Oh well... as long as we fans put up with it, they'll keep doing it....

This just in.....

Rich people making moves to make themselves more money.

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captain stone said:

The student/teacher ratio has little if any influence on the quality of education a student receives. You take from it what you put into it, for better or worse.

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That's not entirely true. An increase from 15 to 20 students may not have a dramatic impact but from 20 to 25+ there is. There is a threshold in which a teacher can no longer keep up the quality of classroom instruction, homework grading etc...

And yes you're correct that parents need to participate as well but in reality some don't which leaves us with the struggling child dilemma and the question of how much responsibility does a community have in ensuring that child gets a quality education.

The first class I was in with less than 30 students was Physics in my junior year of high school. Different times I guess

Tony2046 said:

That's not entirely true. An increase from 15 to 20 students may not have a dramatic impact but from 20 to 25+ there is. There is a threshold in which a teacher can no longer keep up the quality of classroom instruction, homework grading etc...

And yes you're correct that parents need to participate as well but in reality some don't which leaves us with the struggling child dilemma and the question of how much responsibility does a community have in ensuring that child gets a quality education.

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In London you can add to the problem of immigration whereby you have 35 to a class, and from that class maybe 10 speak English whereas the rest of the class speak about 10 different languages.

While financing for schools systems are being cut, this hole of a state could find almost a BILLION dollars so Jerry Jones could make millions MORE than even the $11MM Davis is going to send him and every other owner in the league. How corrupt and self interested was this move in the first place.

Think about it. Davis found over $400MM to pay his fellow owners for a relocation fee, but could never find a few bucks to improve the facility his team played at, or use that $400,000,000 to help finance a new facility.

The more I think about it the more infuriated I become. It has nothing to do with how bad Oakland's facility became, or how successful Las Vegas might be. The whole excercise, starting with the extortion of the city of Oakland and the State of California, to the legal embezzlement of $750-950MM from the citizens of Nevada. It just stinks. And news of Jones' double dipping just makes a bad thing worse.

Big Bucks said:

In London you can add to the problem of immigration whereby you have 35 to a class, and from that class maybe 10 speak English whereas the rest of the class speak about 10 different languages.

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When I started teaching in Boston in 1969 I never had a class with under 28 students my first couple of years, and most were over 30. After 3 years of this, I was part of a group of teachers working with BU, and we changed the structure of the how the school was structured and we were able to lower that number so it averaged 22/class.
I can't tell you what a difference it made, not only in how much easier it made for the teachers to do their jobs, but how the kids responded. Not only was discipline light years better, but we sent more kids to the 2 exam schools than any JHS in the city, and our sports teams suddenly were winning city championships.

It was more than just the class size difference, but that was a key part of it