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  1. And I'll take Rose Marie to block, Peter. Seriously, what intelligent Canadian businessman wouldn't buy a hockey team to keep it in Arizona when it was on the verge of moving to Canada? I love a good conspiracy theory, so bear with me. If Gosbee buys the team right now to keep it in Glendale, he's the only one in line. He buys the team for maybe $100M or so? Say he absorbs $150M in losses over the next 5-6 years; that brings you to $250M invested, and then he can do the whole song and dance about how he tried to make it work and blah blah blah and move the team then (maybe by then Gary Bettman will have accidentally exposed himself to the Sun and vaporized). Now imagine if the NHL put the Coyotes up for auction and said, "Quebec, Saskatoon, Seattle, Vegas... wherever you want to move 'em, go crazy." I think you'd get at least $250M-$300M for the team in that situation and there'd obviously be multiple bidders... you're not guaranteed to come out of it with a team. Gosbee is only in his mid-40's, so he has plenty of time to see this plan through.
  2. If I'm doing my NHL math correctly, the city without an owner waiting needs someone to buy a team on the cheap (Coyotes); the city with an owner, an arena coming and fans waiting will pony up a big expansion fee.
  3. This chain opened its first store in my area in November a couple of years ago... and filed for bankruptcy three months later. They were completely shut down and liquidated by that April.
  4. If the league did some kind of no-conference, 1-16 type playoffs, what do you guys think about teams choosing their opponents in the first round? #1 seed picks their opponent first and so on. If you are on the East Coast and you don't want to travel to the West Coast, choose a different team if it's really important to you. I think it would add an interesting new level of drama. Would teams really pick around the hot team that "nobody wants to play"? Plus, we'd get to blame our GM/coach for picking the wrong team.
  5. My joke about the Cubs was better since the Leafs have actually won a title in the last 100 years. Not with that logo.
  6. You must've not seen the PSU/Iowa game when I was a freshman at Penn State in 2004.Iowa 6, Penn State 4. No joke. Yeah, but you walked across campus to attend that game. I drove all night from Atlanta to Memphis to watch that joke of a game. Can I join the club? I flew from Toronto to San Juan to watch Toronto FC draw 0-0 with the Puerto Rico Islanders meaning we were knocked out of the Champions League. That was lame. My son's first NHL game a couple of years ago was a 1-0 OT loss. No goal celebrations, nothing really to cheer about. Eventually, the puck that he probably couldn't see went into our net on the far side of the arena and everyone just got up and left.
  7. Wouldn't it make more sense to base something like this off of how many goals the team scores, not how many they allow? This way, the team sucks for a game and you're cut off. So not only did the game you saw likely suck, but you made a bad "investment". That equals a happy fan? If your ticket lasted until the Coyotes scored five goals, you're balancing out "team doing well" versus "seeing more games".
  8. I do remember Jack FM. We're going to play all the Bon Jovi and U2 we want no matter how offended people get by it because we're anti-establishment. Think that lasted about six months. We still have a Jack station here in Buffalo. For those that don't know, the idea behind the Jack format was to emulate the variety of music people might carry around with them on their iPods... with the idea that most people don't just listen to rock or just country, etc. I loved that station when it first came out, but now it's 90% bad 80's music with some other decent stuff sprinkled in.
  9. So you're saying Gary Bettman has a switch on his back set to "evil"? And if we reset it, he'll act logically when it comes to the Coyotes?
  10. Well, buying a fake jersey is less like downloading and MP3 and more like holding a tape recorder to the radio. I will never flame someone for buying a jersey second hand. The licencing fees (which lets face it, is the real cost-factor) for MLB/NFL jerseys prices them out of any semblance of a reasonable price range. Besides, I'd rather buy an actual jersey from the Marlins 1993 season on eBay than hope that M&N or Majestic will eventually make a throwback (and probably botch, it too). There's a line between buying smart and buying knock-offs. Holding a tape recorder to the radio is like buying fabric and sewing your own jersey: making your own product from the raw materials. I think the illegal download to jersey comparison is pretty apt. The only difference is that a digital file can be nearly identical to the real thing. Does the quality of the fake really make it right or wrong?
  11. Note that the prices for music didn't come down until the recording industry started feeling the heat on their absurd prices with the rise of file sharing ($22 for a 25 cent CD? Really?). Hopefully the same thing will happen with the absurd prices for jerseys soon enough as the jersey makers feel the heat on their own absurd prices with the rise of offshore counterfeit manufacturing. But the illegal file sharing was a headache for the music industry. Us high schoolers and college students did it like crazy, but we were a small minority. What really brought change was iTunes, with their legal downloads at reasonable prices and freeing consumers from buying a whole CD to get two good songs. I'm not sure there's a jersey equivalent.
  12. I think the Bills were a dark horse candidate to be the "gone in the middle of the night" kind of relocation. Their lease was up at the end of next season. They have a 94 year-old owner whose health is deteriorating and whose kids don't want the team; when he dies, the team goes up for auction.
  13. Thanks for the update, I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say how concern I was that you'd get your package. I really wish they would seize more packages. From what I understand, they go after the bulk stuff more, but if they can manage to stop more of the smaller ones coming in than I can only assume it'd be slightly crippling for some of these sites. Any idea how large the counterfeit market actually is? acturally .buying counterfeits seems not illegal . but for some real poor fans .10 jerseys buying at 30 bucks for all of their family is better than one authentic one with hundreds of dolloars Wrong. If that family cannot afford the jerseys, then they can't afford them. They are by no means entitled to own a jersey of their favorite team. It's a luxury item. The Dodge Viper is my favorite car. I have been enamored with them ever since they came out. But I will never own one. dodge viper? what?! Are you questioning my taste in cars or its inclusion in the thread? I was like 8 when it first came out... it had that random "slash" on the side to make it look cool... I dunno. That was a good enough reason for little me. I really really wanted it, but I am probably never going to have the money to buy one. Just because I like something doesn't mean I "deserve" to own it. Like someone who can't afford their favorite teams' jerseys. They should settle for a hat or a t-shirt, like I had to settle for my Viper book cover for my Math book.
  14. Thanks for the update, I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say how concern I was that you'd get your package. I really wish they would seize more packages. From what I understand, they go after the bulk stuff more, but if they can manage to stop more of the smaller ones coming in than I can only assume it'd be slightly crippling for some of these sites. Any idea how large the counterfeit market actually is? acturally .buying counterfeits seems not illegal . but for some real poor fans .10 jerseys buying at 30 bucks for all of their family is better than one authentic one with hundreds of dolloars Wrong. If that family cannot afford the jerseys, then they can't afford them. They are by no means entitled to own a jersey of their favorite team. It's a luxury item. The Dodge Viper is my favorite car. I have been enamored with them ever since they came out. But I will never own one.
  15. I almost feel guilty for even posting this here because it will never happen, but there's a proposed retractable roof stadium for downtown Buffalo. Key word is "proposed"... they haven't talked to the Bills, the NFL, local or state gov't yet. http://www.buffalone.../121029746/1109
  16. It could be the way the jersey is laying, but the flywire doesn't look symmetrical.
  17. Maybe I'm a pessimist, but I still think it's the Bills. They have a 93 year-old owner with no publicly-revealed successor, zero money for a new stadium, little money for upgrades to the current stadium and a lease that was extended this year... through the end of the 2013 season.
  18. Definitely fake. You can usually get an idea on what the quality of the photoshops or by going through team selections and seeing if they have the right team logo by the name. Ex: Cincinnati Bengals has Cincinnati Reds logo for it. You made it that far? I made it to "they are DEFINITELY pretending to be the official NFL Shop website, but they are DEFINITELY not." Couldn't be faker and I didn't look at a single jersey. Edit: I did actually explore the site a little bit. The jerseys do look good, but since they just stole their site design/layout graphics from nflshop.com, I'm pretty sure they just stole the pictures of the jerseys, too. They even took the "video" button from nflshop.com, but they don't have a video on their site!
  19. Really? I don't think that's even that close. The NOB font is wrong, as is the number. Look at the 4. Maybe the blank jersey is real (doubt it though) but the lettering is not. When the website's logo itself is ripped off (from Kodak), it's probably a sign that everything is not kosher with their business practices.
  20. Does anyone know what the font is for the 'CALIFORNIA' in this?
  21. He has to know that the day of reckoning is coming for the Coyotes... if he plays the contraction card, at least he can gain something through his embarassment.
  22. True but the Metrodome site was not Toxic either and in need of a substantial environmental cleanup either. A stadium is the perfect kind of thing to build on contaminated land. It's all about "how clean" the land has to get. If there are going to be homes on a brownfield, it needs to be very very clean because the people that live there will get a high level of exposure to whatever's left in the ground. A football stadium... nobody spends all that much time there.
  23. Sun Life Stadium has the most upper bowl seats in the NFL (35,000) as well as fewest number of lower bowl seats between the 20s. They could but, who is going to pay for it? Ross is busy paying back his loan on buying the team and while Broward and Miami-Dade are not paying for it. I've never said it before, but a public stadium in Miami might actually make sense. When you're virtually guaranteed to get a Super Bowl every five years or so, you actually would recoup some of that money. OTOH, if you're guaranteed to get the Super Bowl even in the stadium you have, what's the rush? Additionally, from what I understand, hosting the Super Bowl is more like buying a great big advertisement. The city losses money on the actual even, but it presumably opens up other cash flows into various parts of the region. But with that said, Miami kind of markets itself. Does it need the Super Bowl to open those cash flows? I don't know, but it'd be interesting to see that really dissected. 50,000 hotel rooms x $100 per night x 13.5% tax = $675,000 per night Those are guesstimates, but it's a start. The taxes on rental cars can be ridiculous, too, even not during a Super Bowl.
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