When Random Jibberish is riding in a time machine way far into the future...

These too can go to the museum although you probably have tons of this stuff I’m guessing

 

incredible...

 

Too bad there is no relegation in baseball...

 

Meanwhile, the New England Patriots have yet to be punished in any manner whatsoever for electronically stealing signs from the Cincinnati Bengals sideline during the 2019 season.

The Houston Astros' punishment has been infinitely more severe, albeit insufficient.

 

I’m wondering if Eddie D will buy an existing team and move them to SF or Oakland?

Or could he end up with an expansion team?

 

Why are you wondering this? Why wouldn't he have done this 5 years ago, or 10 years ago, or 20 years ago? You think Trumps pardon somehow freed him to do this now? It wasn't like he had served any jail time.

 

Because the NFL more or less banned him from the league, He was an outcast , isolated and not allowed in. Even if the ban was official or unofficial , he wasn’t involved with the league in any capacity with the exception of him getting elected to the Hall Of Fame. That election alone took almost 20 years , from 1997 to 2016.

Al Davis who the NFL took to court and who in turn countersued , was hated by many across the NFL but he was elected back in 1992. Bill Walsh was elected in 1993 but DeBartolo was never recognized , continued to be ignored and overlooked. If they really wanted him in , he will have been elected a lot sooner than 2016 because he was the architect of the great Niners teams.

 

I assumed you were talking about a soccer team, so why are you talking NFL?

 

I never meant an MLS team , I was always meaning how the NFL screwed Eddie. That is why I posted it in this thread as opposed to the Fisher one...

 

I think the 5 million dollar fine was a bit of a joke (however, that's the maximum allowed), but considering the perpetrators of the banging scheme, as it's been dubbed, have all pretty much been fired and/or banned from baseball for a while, I really don't have much of an issue.

I don't know if your comment about relegation was serious or not, but if there was such a thing in baseball, it would still be a very stupid punishment as you would be punishing everyone in the organization, most of whom had nothing to do with the cheating or were never in a position to have anything to do with it in the first place.

You shouldn't punish everyone for the actions of some. That's why the fine really is the best punishment. It hits the owner directly, and hopefully mitigates any impact on the rest of the org. That maximum allowable fine has got to be upped though. 5 million bucks just isn't enough.

 

Juventus got relegated for alleged match fixing even though it was never really proven, they still got relegated. They lost millions upon millions and sold many of their best players. It took them six years to recover.

Looking back the relegation was kind of stupid as they have been back stronger than ever before. They’ve won every scudetto since 2012 sling with two champions league runner ups. That relegation hurt them initially but helped them in the long run. I guess you can say relegation is stupid in that respect.

 

You said this, "I’m wondering if Eddie D will buy an existing team and move them to SF or Oakland?
Or could he end up with an expansion team?"
Buy an NFL team an move them to San Francisco?

And is the NFL looking to expand?

 

Forget about expansion but can they do anything about it if he buys an existing NFL team and moves them to the Bay Area?

I’m sure Don might know more than anyone but by precedent and using Al Davis case law as an example , I don’t think the league can legally stop him. Al sued the NFL and won $130 million dollars in the 80’s because the league tried to stop him from moving the Raiders to LA.

That may not sound like much but that $130 million in 1985 is equal to $317.25 mil in 2020. That doesn’t include legal fees. Maybe that still isn’t that much money to the NFL but I doubt they would want to go down that path.

The question is does he want to buy a team?

As far as NFL expansion, the league makes a lot of noise about expanding into London. If there is money to be made though, the Bay Area is the richest place in earth.

 

Has DeBartolo made any statements about wanting to get back into NFL ownership? I just don't understand where this whole line of thinking is even coming from.

Second, is the NFL still giving lip service to expanding to other markets? I got the impression that the experiments of playing games in London was largely a failure, not to mention short-changing the season ticket holders of the teams who play those games since one of them gets fewer games for the same amount of money. It's just a stupid idea. If Europe wants to play football, let them develop their own league. The NFL doesn't need more money or influence.

 

I stated that in my post.

I did hear a rumor that he was involved with the Ronnie Lott bid to buy the Raiders.


I'm betting he would love to get the Niners back.