c_hawkbob wrote:Your telling me what your understanding was. The whole point is that this new element to the situation has drasticly altered that landscape and those previous understandings now have reason to be altered.
Seahawks4Ever wrote:I don't know how Seattle has avoided both playing in London or appearing on Hard Knocks but I see our good luck running out.
I HATE the whole London angle. Once they start placing teams out side of North America I am afraid they are going to lose me. I know nobody cares whether I watch or not but once they move a team to London I for see many more rule changes to "spice" things up. I t already is increasingly hard to watch.
OT-Fantasy leagues started out as a fun way to kind of be a participant in the NFL. Now with the advent those two new gambling sites I am completely disgusted that the NFL would be a part of that. But people can do what they want to do.
I got to see us win a championship and I at least got to experience that. I am glad we destroyed Denver doing it too!
c_hawkbob wrote:Yes, drastically altered.
We're talking about the CEO of Disney (You know Disney, the owners of ABC and ESPN?) agreeing to spearhead the project, for a mere $1M/year and a guaranteed option to buy into one of the teams (how's that for a potential partner?). They are thought to have between 16 and 20 of the needed 24 votes before this announcement, I think it's nearly a slam dunk now for this to get them the votes in the January owners meetings to push this through.
No one can put on a show like Disney, no one likes to put on a show like the NFL, it's a match made in LA heaven. I can't help but think this is more than enough to push the vote through. Especially since Kroenke's stadium plans ares facing problems with the FAA now: http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-nfl ... story.html
c_hawkbob wrote:I wasn't getting sarcastic. At all.
RiverDog wrote:To be clear, Disney isn't contributing a dime to this endeavor. It's their CEO that is the focus of this article, a man by the name of Bob Eger. He's acting as a private citizen, not as the chairman and CEO of Disney, which is a publicly owned company. Disney is no more involved in this project that Microsoft was involved in the purchase of the Seahawks.
kalibane wrote:Doesn't matter whether people fill the stadium. It's all about local media deals. There is more money in LA. Plus one of the primary issues was playing in the decrepit LA Colossium.
kalibane wrote:Doesn't matter whether people fill the stadium. It's all about local media deals. There is more money in LA. Plus one of the primary issues was playing in the decrepit LA Colossium.
HumanCockroach wrote:And the media will foot the bill with flagging fan support because why again?
Sorry, I don't buy the " the stadium was the only issue" in LA thing. Truth is, USC still packs that decrepit stadium weekly, plenty of piss poor stadiums due, including one one of these teams is trying to flee.
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