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  • Dr. Lecter
    Zero for Zero!
    • Mar 2003
    • 67946
    #1

    Cowboys' Jones rips revenue sharing, pushes for new Vikings stadium

    MINNEAPOLIS -- Jerry Jones has something that Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf wants, and it's not just the Super Bowl rings on his fingers.


    The Dallas Cowboys' owner has opened his brand-new, $1.2 billion Cowboys Stadium to rave reviews from everyone but punters this preseason.


    Wilf is trying to get public-financing help for a new stadium on the site of the current Metrodome, where the Vikings' lease is set to expire in 2011. He has had little to no luck so far getting momentum generated from lawmakers, and Jones said the situation is growing more urgent.


    "Right now we are subsidizing this market," said Jones, one of the most influential owners in the NFL. "It's unthinkable to think that you've got the market you've got here, with 3.5 million people, and have teams like Kansas City and Green Bay subsidizing this market. That will stop. That's going to stop. That's called revenue sharing. That's on its way out."
    Cowboys' Jones rips revenue sharing, pushes for new Vikings stadium
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    Originally posted by mysticsoto
    Lecter is right in everything he said.
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  • casdhf
    Registered User
    • Jul 2002
    • 17542
    #2
    Re: Cowboys' Jones rips revenue sharing, pushes for new Vikings stadium

    I hope that huge score board falls on Jerry's head.
    Originally posted by BillsZone Mod
    cas,

    I'm just letting you know that you have been given 2 points for telling Wys AKA Mark to kill himself.

    BillsZone Mod

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    • Typ0
      honey pie
      • Jul 2002
      • 32593
      #3
      Re: Cowboys' Jones rips revenue sharing, pushes for new Vikings stadium

      Oh, I just can't wait to see what our roster looks like with no revenue sharing. What Jones is basically saying is he's got the best market so he should win the SB 8 out of 10 years and the other teams exist so he can do that.
      Last edited by Typ0; 09-05-2009, 07:22 AM.
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      • Novacane
        Registered User
        • Jul 2002
        • 42371
        #4
        Re: Cowboys' Jones rips revenue sharing, pushes for new Vikings stadium

        More owners want to do away with revenue sharing than owners that want to keep it? Anyone know if that's true?

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        • Night Train
          Retired - On Several Levels
          • Jul 2005
          • 33117
          #5
          Re: Cowboys' Jones rips revenue sharing, pushes for new Vikings stadium

          In 10 years, the NFL will have 8-10 less teams.

          Revenue sharing is just welfare and the rich owners in the big markets hate it.
          Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit

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          • Typ0
            honey pie
            • Jul 2002
            • 32593
            #6
            Re: Cowboys' Jones rips revenue sharing, pushes for new Vikings stadium

            Originally posted by Novacane
            More owners want to do away with revenue sharing than owners that want to keep it? Anyone know if that's true?
            There are only a few teams that suck on that pie significantly with the Bills being one of them. If it went to a vote amongst owners it would be gone.

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            • DMBcrew36
              Registered User
              • Feb 2005
              • 5096
              #7
              Re: Cowboys' Jones rips revenue sharing, pushes for new Vikings stadium

              Originally posted by Night Train
              In 10 years, the NFL will have 8-10 less teams.

              Revenue sharing is just welfare and the rich owners in the big markets hate it.
              Sad for us, but true.


              But if they want a big competitive league, it will have to continue. If they cut off revenue sharing then the league can probably only support like 18-20 teams. That would make the league extremely lame.
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              • Turf
                Registered User
                • Jul 2002
                • 8379
                #8
                Re: Cowboys' Jones rips revenue sharing, pushes for new Vikings stadium

                I think he's looking at it from a population standpoint. Doing away with revenue sharing will kill the NFL, but should smaller markets subsidize larger because of poor fan support or marketing?
                Lou Saban: You can get it done, you can get it done. And what’s more, you’ve gotta get it done.

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                • Jan Reimers
                  Thank You, Terry and Kim, for Saving the Bills. Now, Work on the Sabres.
                  • May 2003
                  • 17353
                  #9
                  Re: Cowboys' Jones rips revenue sharing, pushes for new Vikings stadium

                  Jerry Jones bought this very successful, big market franchise knowing full well that many of the smaller market teams were getting, and would continue to need, some form of help. Revenue sharing has been a very good way to keep the Bills and several other teams from less wealthy, smaller cities in the league.

                  But now, in his unmitigated greed, he wants to change a system that has made the NFL by far the most successful of all major sports. Perhaps revenue sharing shouldn't be used to save a Jacksonville franchise that has sold only 25,000 season tickets this year, but it certainly works for teams like Buffalo that market well and sell out their stadiums, but still need a relatively small measure of help. And the league needs these teams.

                  Jones doesn't realize that a 16 team NFL will have nowhere near the success of the current configuration.
                  Last edited by Jan Reimers; 09-05-2009, 09:15 AM.
                  Should have known, way back in 1960 when we drafted Richie Lucas Number 1, that this would be a long, hard ride. But who could have known it would be THIS bad?
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                  • Michael82
                    Registered User
                    • Jul 2002
                    • 82328
                    #10
                    Re: Cowboys' Jones rips revenue sharing, pushes for new Vikings stadium

                    Jerry Jones will be the death of the NFL. He doesn't realize how good he has it.
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                    • Typ0
                      honey pie
                      • Jul 2002
                      • 32593
                      #11
                      Re: Cowboys' Jones rips revenue sharing, pushes for new Vikings stadium

                      Revenue sharing is like welfare. It's purpose is to help supplement not support. Unfortunately, revenue sharing has become a significant part of the business model of teams like the Bills. Jones response to you Jan is that he deserves say in the decision making of these organizations if he's going to continue to fund them.

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                      • Nighthawk
                        Getting old waiting for a championship in Buffalo!
                        • Jul 2002
                        • 15437
                        #12
                        Re: Cowboys' Jones rips revenue sharing, pushes for new Vikings stadium

                        It will NEVER go away...if the NFL wants to keep it's fans and keep the league competitive.
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                        • Typ0
                          honey pie
                          • Jul 2002
                          • 32593
                          #13
                          Re: Cowboys' Jones rips revenue sharing, pushes for new Vikings stadium

                          Originally posted by Nighthawk
                          It will NEVER go away...if the NFL wants to keep it's fans and keep the league competitive.
                          The NFL IS the owners and what they decide is the way it will be.

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                          • The Juice Is Loose
                            All-Pro Zoner
                            • Feb 2009
                            • 1341
                            #14
                            Re: Cowboys' Jones rips revenue sharing, pushes for new Vikings stadium

                            Jerry Jones is a f'n idiot! Between his monstrocity over the field that his arrogant ass is refusing to raise, to those latest comments.

                            The only thing he ever did right was hire Jimmy Johnson. This team hasn't done squat without him, except for the leftover SuperBowl that Switzer cashed in on.

                            When the Cowboys are 6-10 this year Jerry maybe will stfu.
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                            • jamesiscool
                              suck it fool.
                              • Feb 2007
                              • 733
                              #15
                              Re: Cowboys' Jones rips revenue sharing, pushes for new Vikings stadium

                              In 10 years Buffalo will have championship winning UFL team.

                              Because if revenue sharing is on the way out we're ****ed.
                              Sec 241 row 12 seat 23
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