Kael Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 4 hours ago, ET80 said: Are there other teams outside the US that do a better job? Legit curious. I always figured these teams were owned by conglomerates and/or the very wealthy. GB was unique to everyone in the world, right? Barcelona is actually owned by its members. They hold elections to select the Team President and Board who are kind of GM role. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SalvadorsDeli Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, Starless said: Sorry, I was talking about City of Liverpool FC, which I guess is different than Liverpool FC...? I have no idea how this stuff works. Ah right. There are a couple of clubs like that in England that were basically started by fans protesting the commercialization of EPL clubs - FC United of Manchester (started by Man United fans) is another one, and are meant to be grassroots and community-run. But they also basically play in amateur or semi-pro leagues right now. At the highest levels of the English pyramid most of the clubs are owned privately and run like American franchises at this point. Edited February 16, 2021 by SalvadorsDeli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightmare Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 3 hours ago, Starless said: Sorry, I was talking about City of Liverpool FC, which I guess is different than Liverpool FC...? I have no idea how this stuff works. Think of Liverpool FC as the New York Giants, and City of Liverpool FC as a bunch of random dudes who play in an amateur league in New York in front of a handful of fans. There are more publicly owned teams in European pro sports (specifically soccer) than in the US, but at the top level it’s still very much a closed shop of wealthy businessmen with no attachment to the clubs who own them. Very, very few top tier pro teams have close to what the Packers have. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET80 Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 6 hours ago, animaltested said: Well considering NFL owners run their org's like little fiefdoms, make's sense the line of succession is basically primogeniture. Ooooh, somebody went to fancy learning school... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET80 Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 6 hours ago, Kael said: Barcelona is actually owned by its members. They hold elections to select the Team President and Board who are kind of GM role. Interesting - who are the "members"? Players, fans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animaltested Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 47 minutes ago, ET80 said: Ooooh, somebody played CK2... fixed it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET80 Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 2 minutes ago, animaltested said: fixed it I am more confused by CK2, tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kael Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 2 hours ago, ET80 said: Interesting - who are the "members"? Players, fans? Fans/supporters mostly. Becoming a member isn't quite as easy as filling out a form however. If you don't have a close family member who is already a member, there are some hoops to jump through before one can apply to become a member. At least that is my understanding. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roninho Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 9 hours ago, Nightmare said: There are more publicly owned teams in European pro sports (specifically soccer) than in the US, but at the top level it’s still very much a closed shop of wealthy businessmen with no attachment to the clubs who own them. Very, very few top tier pro teams have close to what the Packers have. And the biggest difference between eu pro sports and nfl is that there is no equal revenue sharing or salary cap. In addition to actual relegation. If your team sucks you're not talking about getting #1 draft spot, but you'll be relegated to the cfl (in football terms). And still have high salaried players under contract but dont get the tv money. Add in that players are not traded but actually bought for $. All this combined actually means that if your management/ownership fails you have pretty good odds that your team will end up in a 3rd division or go banktrupt. The way the Raiders and Browns were managed earlier in this century would have resulted in those teams probably not existing anymore if done in eu pro team style 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugger Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 13 hours ago, ET80 said: Ooooh, somebody went to fancy learning school... I think I have a decent vocabulary but I had to look up the meaning of that word too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich homie Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 On 2/16/2021 at 9:03 AM, ET80 said: Are there other teams outside the US that do a better job? Legit curious. I always figured these teams were owned by conglomerates and/or the very wealthy. GB was unique to everyone in the world, right? I tend to find that outside of the United States (and Canada) pro sports are run just like any other business, in that they're regulated just by regular old laws instead of the rules they choose to impose on themselves as a league. For instance, if a player signs a contract with a team, that contract is binding for both parties. A team cannot just tear it up or ship it away without the players' consent like what happens all the time in the US. Similarly, leagues can't have arbitrary restrictions for young players based on when they graduated secondary school; the ability for 14-17 year olds to play professionally is regulated almost entirely by child labor laws. All these points essentially mean that owners just have much less power in sports outside of the US. Outside, owners and players are fighting the same labor vs management battle that everyone else is, whereas in the US the owners have complete control of almost every aspect of the battlefield. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp0k2 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 On 2/16/2021 at 4:41 PM, Nightmare said: Think of Liverpool FC as the New York Giants, and City of Liverpool FC as a bunch of random dudes who play in an amateur league in New York in front of a handful of fans. You could have just said the Jets... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NVRamsFan Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 On 2/16/2021 at 5:16 AM, Pugger said: Besides being community owned (of course many us do not live in WI now) the only way the team will ever leave that town is if the majority of the shareholders approve. I always feel bad for cities like Oakland and St. Louis when their teams are ripped away. But not for LA or Houston or Baltimore and Cleveland? No teams should move or have been moved the NFL continually fails it's fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugger Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Just now, NVRamsFan said: But not for LA or Houston or Baltimore and Cleveland? No teams should move or have been moved the NFL continually fails it's fans. I just mentioned Oakland and St. Louis as examples. Of course the cities you mentioned still have a team, even if it isn't the original one. The 2 examples I spoke of have no NFL team presently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trojan Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 The estate tax thing... why couldn't an owner of an NFL team just transfer ownership to a living trust, and then have their spouse/children/whoever the heirs are become the beneficiaries and trustee? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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