Scab referees deliberately targeting socialist football?

[eridani]

BTW, no one in Seattle thinks the Hawks won that game legitimately.

http://www.house.gov/blumenauer/press_releases/pr066.htm

Today Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer re-introduced his Give Fans A Chance legislation to address this unfortunate crossroad. Blumenauer’s legislation, which already has nine co-sponsors, would put communities on equal footing with the sports leagues by allowing communities to own their team.

Congressman Blumenauer's bill would:

• Require leagues to eliminate rules against public ownership to retain their billion-dollar broadcast antitrust exemption
• Give communities a voice in team relocation decisions
• Tie the leagues' broadcast antitrust exemption to the requirements in this bill.[/quote]

Also see

http://www.newrules.org/sports/index.html

This web page identifies rules, and models, of organized and professional sports that allow us not only to root for the home team to win, but to root the home team in place.

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/commons/2002/45/ma_157_01.html

The Packers belong to 110,901 people, many of them Green Bay residents who paid up to $200 each for a share in the team, and the organization makes a point of finding ways to repay the community. Each morning, when players leave for practice, they pair off with local kids. Pretty soon the parking lot is a parade of large men steering small bicycles through a haphazard aisle of a few hundred admirers, as the bikes' owners drape themselves across the players' backs or sprint alongside to keep up.

http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JA97/moskowitz.html

When the Green Bay Packers won the 1997 Super Bowl, it was a triumph of soul. The Packers are deeply rooted in the Wisconsin city where they were founded in 1919. They were named after a local meat processing plant, the Indian Packing Company, which paid for the first uniforms. Starting in the 1920s, the Green Bay Football Corp. made a series of public stock offerings. In 1950, 1,900 local residents each put up $25 a share to buy the team. They and their descendants remain the owners. No one owns more than 200 shares of Packers stock. And it pays no dividends -- every cent goes back to the team in pay or toward the improvement of facilities. The result is a community -- and team -- spirit unmatched in any other National Football League city. That's why Packer players who score touchdowns leap into the stands to embrace spectators. That's why fans at Lambeau Field sing "Amazing Grace" during time-outs. That's why, as Bruce Adams of the San Francisco Examiner wrote last year, "a group of nuns 75 miles away in Fond du Lac prays for the Packers on Sunday morning and then settles down in front of a television set to watch the game."

[HiPointDem]

1. kr. it was a crime when they changed the rules to disallow public ownership of teams.

[King_Klonopin]

2. Remember when Bush The Dullard spoke loftily about "an ownership society"

You didn't think he was talking about us common folk, did ya?

[eridani]

3. Only in the sense of promoting the housing bubble n/t