Good article on Ross and the direction of the franchise. I'm normally fully opposed to these types of public funding initiatives but I support this 100% now. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...-dolphins-are-going-to-stay-in-south-florida/ Regardless of your feelings on the man, you have to give him credit for trying, especially in the face of some unfortunate luck and circumstance after he took over this team in 2009. Namely, Sparano, Henne and Parcells and his easy bailout contract that Wayne masterfully drew up while planning his departure from the team.
He should use some of his net worth, of $4.4 billion, to get the financing done for the stadium upgrade. Stop freeloading. This team is not going anywhere. Goodell would slap that deal down in a minute and force him to sell.
Agreed but it'll never happen. Hes not using 25% of his net worth for a new billion dollar stadium. Guys like him view sports teams as a financial investment where as we view it as an emotional one.
A business is only as good the people you hire to run your business.If you hire the wrong people things will not go well.So far neither Wayne or Ross have hired the right people but there is still time for Ross to correct that situation and learn from his mistakes.
Stop freeloading? As Ross said, he's the only NFL franchise and only team in the state of Florida to pay full real estate taxes. I'm not saying Ross isn't trying to get some burden lifted off himself (or that he doesn't already), but there's no cause to accuse him of freeloading.
Then he should use $400 million for a major renovation. Rich people should not freeload, it's unbecoming.
Then he should fight the state of Florida about his property tax issue, nt go to the over stretched taxpayers so his lay thing can make a face lift. When your net worth is $4.4 billion and you ask anyone for anything you are freeloading.
Let's stop pretending that the city doesn't benefit from having the Dolphins and the stadium too. It is in Ross' and the City's best interest to renovate the stadium. Ross should certainly shoulder the majority of the cost though.
You know why rich people are rich? Because theyre better at hanging on to money then everyone else.....
Then I tell him to piss up a rope and finance it himself. He can jump up and down about "selling or moving the team" all he wants, Goodell would snuff out the deal before it was made and force him to sell the team.
Too bad the proposed tax (as far as I understand it) would be paid for through hotel patrons, the vast majority of which aren't the local taxpayers.
Is his statement binding? You can bet that if the tax payer funding falls through the first press conference he has will start to move towards the moving thing.
So if he doesn't invest the whole thing, then everyone loses, especially the city of Miami.. San Diego community like he said declined to help finance, they nonos get a Super Bowl anymore.. You also have to the think strongly about world class events, the city of Miami is so multicultural that other countries would love to hold events in a world class stadium..the city will lose more just because of some grandstanding bs by the community.
I don't think the economic impact is always positive in a typical stadium, but Miami is a location where you can really make a case for it. Super Bowls really do inject money all around the potential to host a World Cup would be big as well The Marlins situation is criminal imo (with all parties involved including the lenders. That kind of bond should be illegal.) But Ross is being upfront. I don't think Ross sees the Dolphins as his toy. I think he wants to make a mark on the area
Don't mind unifiedtheory. He`s still smarting over the government cost of upgrading B.C. place. What was it now...$400 million they put in for that upgrade? Hell here in Hamilton were paying $160 million for what looks like a high school football stadium for the Tiger Cats. So in the scheme of things...Miami's getting off light compared to most territories.
Agreed. While I didn't ever think Ross would threaten to move the team for funding even if he did it wouldn't work. The Phins are one of the safest franchises in the entire league when it comes to stability of location. The NFL would NEVER want nor allow itself to be out of Miami or the S. FL. market. People that have brought up the Phins moving in the past as being a real threat are delusional.
do you not think this could be a damaging blow to our already deterioting culture, if the city has a bit of vested interest they might get a feeling of support for them to do well, more of a connection.?
