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Ross bidding on LA stadium?

Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by Serpico Jones, Jan 21, 2013.

  1. Serpico Jones

    Serpico Jones Well-Known Member

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  2. MikeHoncho

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    Uh, what?
     
  3. Desides

    Desides Well-Known Member

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    Here's the article.

    The rest is behind a paywall.
     
  4. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    well well well... how about them apples? Color me not surprised, something I predicted a long time ago. I guess I should now draw up my divorce papers to my wife as there is no way she's going to approve me spending the cash for the season tickets here in LA., which will be mighty expensive. People brought up the fact that Ross owns the stadium in Miami... which makes him less likely to leave.. .it also means there is no lease and he's free to move the team whenever he feels like it.
     
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  5. schmolioot

    schmolioot Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    AEG owns a ton of entertainment properties, including Staples Center and LA Live.

    This is about real estate, not moving the Dolphins to LA.

    And there is no way the nFL would allow Ross to own the Dolphins and a stadium in LA. One or the other my friend. He'd have to divest from the company to keep ownership in the Dolphins is my guess.
     
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  6. Desides

    Desides Well-Known Member

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    The Dolphins are not moving to LA. Stop it.
     
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  7. Fin D

    Fin D Sigh

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    He's not moving the Dolphins. Everyone relax.
     
  8. Coral Reefer

    Coral Reefer Premium Member

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    Back in Miami
    Next up.... We never really landed on the moon.
     
  9. schmolioot

    schmolioot Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    For perspective, MSG (Madison Square Garden Group, chaired by Knicks/Cablevision owner Jim Dolan) is also bidding for AEG.

    So, it's not about the Knicks moving to LA. And the same caveat applies, no way the Knicks owner would be allowed to own the Lakers/Clippers arena.

    If anything, this is about billionaires chasing far more money than they make with their sports team hobbies. If Ross somehow won this bid, he would sell the Dolphins. No doubt in my mind on that
     
  10. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    But he can own the Dolphins and a stadium in Miami?
     
  11. P h i N s A N i T y

    P h i N s A N i T y My Porpoise in Life

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    Just when i started speaking highly of Volin.......
     
  12. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    I know this is upsetting to a lot of you Miami locals, so when the team does indeed move out here, don't worry. I'll help you move out here too.
     
  13. mroz

    mroz Fix the OL Club Member

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    studio in long beach...
     
  14. slickj101

    slickj101 Is Water

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    :lol: What Realtor wouldn't want a piece of a LA NFL stadium?

    Obviously nobody here played monopoly.
     
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  15. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    http://www.latimes.com/business/mon...eing-put-up-for-sale-20120918,0,4516139.story

    It's a lot easier to keep those obligations if you, the buyer, already have an NFL team in your back pocket!!!
     
  16. schmolioot

    schmolioot Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Of course. The team owns their own stadium.

    You don't see the inherent conflict of interest in Ross owning the Dolphins, who play in Miami, and a stadium located in LA where one of his competitior teams plays?

    As landlord, he would be entitled to all sorts of financial information, etc., which would give him an advantage. It simply wouldn't be allowed.

    Now theoretically he could move the Dolphins to LA and play in the stadium he owns, but that would come with all of it's own difficulties as the NFL (in comparison to other sports) has really clamped down on relocation since the Cleveland move.
     
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  17. Fin D

    Fin D Sigh

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    He's just screwing around.
     
  18. Joe Robbie

    Joe Robbie The Patriarch

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    It's called "leverage." You know like how free agents/coaches say they're gonna sign here, when their intention was to be elsewhere all along?
     
  19. ToddPhin

    ToddPhin Premium Member Luxury Box Club Member

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    Anyone remember what Ross did for a living before he bought the Dolphins, you know- to earn those billions of dollars?
     
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  20. Bumrush

    Bumrush Stable Genius Club Member

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    2 weeks before the Super Bowl and we have a preseason favorite to win the pre-draft post count award.
     
  21. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    well, move the team to LA, problem solved again.
     
  22. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    I'll just stop... I see it's a touchy subject.
     
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  23. Fin D

    Fin D Sigh

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    Don't include me. I'm not upset.
     
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  24. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    I'm not screwing around though. The "help you move to LA" process... I would honestly help anyone move out here if they wanted to.
     
  25. MikeHoncho

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    I will sodomize you with a cactus. And the the good kind either.
     
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  26. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    that would be quite the prick.
     
  27. Joe Robbie

    Joe Robbie The Patriarch

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    This team is cursed, so the joke would be on LA.
     
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  28. Stringer Bell

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    The teams aren't really competitors.
     
  29. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    supposedly the workaround is that the new LA team, he would not be allowed to have an equity interest in.. .unless of course it's a team he already has ownership in.
     
  30. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    the team being cursed is certainly a more ridiculous notion than the team moving to LA.
     
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  31. Joe Robbie

    Joe Robbie The Patriarch

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    They wouldn't be "rivals", but they would certainly be competitors. They would have to at some point face each other, after all...
     
  32. jdang307

    jdang307 Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Leave the dolphins in Miami.

    But if they do come here, I get to see them more often :D
     
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  33. Stringer Bell

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    Competitors don't share revenue with one another.
     
  34. ToddPhin

    ToddPhin Premium Member Luxury Box Club Member

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    The L.A Smog has a nice USFL ring to it, no.
     
  35. Joe Robbie

    Joe Robbie The Patriarch

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    In that case, nobody in the NFL actually competes.
     
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  36. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    There are Dolphins out here... Oh and I see Omar has spoken on the subject and says there is zero chance of the team moving. I suppose that settles that.
     
  37. Serpico Jones

    Serpico Jones Well-Known Member

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    It was actually Dave Hyde not Omar.
     
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  38. schmolioot

    schmolioot Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Teams compete for sponsorship and corporate money all the time.

    Even if they didn't, do you think bob Kraft really wants Steve Ross poking around his financial documents?
     
  39. Stringer Bell

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    Steven Ross does not need to poke around any documents aside from a lease if he owns the LA stadium.
     
  40. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    oops
     

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