The Green Bay Packers: where fans rather than a billionaire are the owners
www.theguardian.com
US sports teams often leverage the threat of relocation to access taxpayers’ money. But the Packers have thrived under a community driven model

Probably no one here will learn anything from this, but it’s a well written article with a couple of curveballs for me, like over half of NFL teams have threatened to leave for LA!

  • beta_tester@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    In 1980, the NFL decided that no team – with the exception of the grandfathered-in Packers – could have more than 32 owners, and that at least one owner must hold a minimum 30% share.

    Wtf is wrong with you nfl