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On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 14:44:14 -0600 Gulf Mann <gulfm...@gmail.com> writes: > > Only 1 team in the NFL ain't owned by Rulingclass kazillionaires: > the Green > Bay Packers, who instead are municipally owned by the citizens of > Green Bay. > The Packers thus represent ordinary Workingclass stiffs, like the > big > majority of Americans. Like us. They have the only valid claim of > being > America's Team. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bay_Packers) the Packers's ownership arrangement would be in violation of current NFL rules for any other franchise in the league. In the case of the Packers, they were grandfathered in when the NFL set its current ownership rules back in the 1980s. The Packers's ownership arrangement is structured so as to preclude them from ever being sold and moved to another city. Something, which would almost certainly happen if they were, indeed, ever sold to a Rulingclass kazillionaire. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math > > A further attraction with the Packers is that Green Bay is by far, > far, far > the smallest city in the nation to field an NFL team. Imagine plucky > little > Green Bay going up against the largest, wealthiest cities in the > land. It's > a David vs. Goliath contest. In other words, no contest all all for > me to > pick sides. > ________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
