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Forbes 10 sports franchises most likely to move
The 10 Sports Franchises Most Likely To Move - Forbes.com
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12-26-2008, 04:55 PM | #2 |
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It's not a ranked list, but:
Florida Marlins Tampa Bay Rays Buffalo Bills Minnesota Vikings San Francisco 49ers New York Islanders Phoenix Coyotes Nashville Predators New Orleans Hornets Charlotte Bobcats are the teams they mentioned. |
12-26-2008, 05:20 PM | #3 | |
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12-26-2008, 05:22 PM | #4 |
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I think Forbes was looking at team stadium situations and finances of the club, not really "fan interest." Because I doubt seriously the Vikings would ever go anywhere and the Niners wouldn't go outside the region, if they did move.
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12-26-2008, 06:55 PM | #6 |
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Doesn't "move" imply that there's another city that would want you?
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12-26-2008, 08:43 PM | #7 | |
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The owner is expected to lose $30M this year, and reach $200M losses total since purchasing the team in 2001...for $120M. OUCH.
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12-26-2008, 08:49 PM | #8 | |
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I think Forbes is also overlooking Jacksonville, which is one of the teams I have heard being mentioned the most over the last year or so.
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12-26-2008, 08:59 PM | #9 | |
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Nashville would probably be on its way to Kansas City if part-owner Boots Del Biaggio wasn't a fraud; they had an arena deal already worked out with the city. And if Jim Balsillie was allowed to buy the Predator franchise, they'd be in Hamilton. |
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12-26-2008, 09:46 PM | #10 |
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At least as far as the Bobcats are concerned, all the wounds are mostly self-inflicted. The city, after all, decided to build the NBA an arena after George Shinn followed through on his threat to move the Hornets if he didn't get a new arena. However, the whole Shinn mess really soured the area on the NBA in general, so the new team did start a bit behind the eight-ball. Even so, the new ownership has been nothing short of a disaster. Everything that Bob Johnson has touched related to the team has turned to shoddy aluminum, from the incredibly dumb idea that Charlotte merited its own sports network that died a quick, painful death in just a year to hiring the greatest athlete/second-worst front office man in league history, himself mostly absentee, and then bitterly complaining when the city didn't turn out for such a poorly run team. Because the TV network died, the team found itself on a local news network station for its over-the-air games, which severely cramped its exposure in most parts of the Carolinas. If you didn't have TWC, you couldn't see the team--a fact that only changed last year when Time Warner got the Bobcats to give them naming rights to the arena in exchange for Time Warner giving up the rights to TV games to FSN. Of course, the Bobcats have been cutting staff this year and even wanted to drop radio broadcasts (further eroding what little exposure they've got) until the NBA basically told them they couldn't.
It's hard to say whether it was unfortunate the league opted for Johnson to be the owner because the alternative was a group that prominently featured Larry Bird. Given how Bird hasn't exactly lit things up in Indiana, this may have been a no-win situation for Charlotte. It's all pretty unfortunate, because Charlotte did prove for about a decade that it could support both colleges and the NBA with resounding success. Without that success, the Panthers don't come to Charlotte in 1995 and possibly the Hurricanes don't move to Raleigh in the late 1990s. |
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12-26-2008, 10:23 PM | #12 |
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I predict an imminent move to Kansas city for any nhl or NBA team on this list
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12-26-2008, 11:33 PM | #13 |
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Kansas City will take a team, no questions asked. We have got to have a permanent tenant in our new arena. We've already crossed the line where we don't care if it's a good, bad or expansion team and we really don't care if it's NHL or NBA. We'd take both although I don't think we can support both.
The Chiefs and Royals have new leases tied to the renovations that will keep them here for a while. The real question mark in Missouri is the Rams. Their deal in St. Louis will likely allow them to shop around in 2015 if the city doesn't build a new stadium and the thing is only 20 years old. But the magic question is who wants and can afford an NFL team? San Antonio seems to be the only place with an empty building but it's 15 years old and not exactly state of the art anymore either. Los Angeles doesn't seem to have anyone willing and able to make it happen. Toronto stealing or sharing the Bills with Buffalo seems plausible. Other than that, where? The article mentions a truth which is that you really don't need to be a major city to sell out 16 NFL games. If some crazy billionaire wanted to look at a football-crazy market like somewhere in Oklahoma, you might be able to pull it off. |
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12-26-2008, 11:53 PM | #16 | |
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Considering there is more or less a promise to build a stadium if a team comes available in the City of Industry, and given the Rams' past history in LA, I think this is the one team LA would find a way to get past its political squabbles to bring back. And since the Wicked Witch is gone, I would welcome that as an old Rams fan. I really doubt it happens, though.
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