Go Packers
Simple: They’re the only major team left that’s not owned by an oligarch. The only one that’s not just a business run by some tycoon with his eyes on the bottom line.
They’re still, effectively, owned by the town of Green Bay, population 102,000.
The local stadium fits three-quarters of the entire town, and there’s still a waiting list for season tickets as long as your arm.
This is what America should still look like.
Call the Pack “the People’s Team.”
The “New York” Jets? Don’t kid yourself. They’re no such thing.
They’re the “Woody Johnson” Jets. Quit dreaming.
Johnson, the owner, isn’t cheering for your business. Why are you cheering for his?
I have nothing against Woody Johnson personally. I don’t even care that he was dinged a few years back by Congress for taking part in a tax dodge.
But the simple truth is that he is a billionaire running a business, and there is no reason why you or I should somehow get passionately involved in “cheering” for it.
None.
Next time you’re asking your boss for a raise, do you think Woody’s going to turn up and cheer you on? Maybe stand there and chant “De-fense! De-fense”?
The way sports fans are such suckers never ceases to amaze me.
Look, I like a good game. I really honor dedication, excellence and achievement on the field as in any area of life. So I have great respect for what the players do.
But as for the franchises themselves, theyÂ?re just businesses. Never forget it.
Just ask the people of Cleveland. For decades they really believed the Browns were the “Cleveland” Browns. They stood in the cold and the rain and the snow, and cheered and cried and yelled for “their” team.
Then in the mid-1990s owner Art Modell got a better offer from Baltimore and it was sayonara, suckers. (A new team was later formed in Cleveland.)
The same thing happened to all those fans of the Baltimore Colts … now in Indianapolis.
And how are those Brooklyn Dodgers doing?
People in Boston cheer rabidly for “their” Patriots. So much for that.
They’re the “Bob Kraft” Patriots. When Kraft wanted a better deal on a stadium, he threatened to move too.
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