Same here.

Agreed. Tree's been on a roll with these lately between this one about Hugh Culverhouse and the one about Marge Schott. His look at the Oilers' downfall in Houston and move to Tennessee where they became the Titans was amazing as well.

They are my favorite

Same

True especially the oilers story

Unironically Brady is our Franchises best QB, goes to show just how shit we were at getting an ACTUAL QB

Yup, they could make chicken shit out of chicken salad with the best of them.

@@snakeguy8646 Or developing them. You know Tampa Bay was bad back in the days when Vinny actually improved with the freaking Jets where their QB position have been cursed for decades! (though he had stops with couple of other teams as well and had couple of good seasons)

Can't forget the legend that was Steve DeBerg.

Yep 💀

As a current Alabama student, the thing that made the school give Hugh Jr. his money back was the fact he was openly advocating for prospective students to not attend UA because of the restrictive abortion bill that the State of Alabama passed in 2019. Idk what Hugh Jr. thought the University could even do about that law since UA has no control over what bills Alabama's state government can pass, but I'm so glad the University cut ties with this overbearing, egotistical narcissist because he tried to make the University about him and his late father. No University wants to deal with a donor who is actively trying to push prospective students AWAY from them and not towards them.

@Matty Symz yes, I remember that being the deciding factor after a series of wild behaviors. He openly expressed his disdain for the Dean and tried to force his voice to be heard in admissions decisions - insisting that the small law class be expanded at the potential cost of the relatively high ranking the law school had achieved. I was at the first game he got booed by the law school student section prior to the return of the money.

@@Jwpolk2 If there were Lolcow videos for University Boosters, he would definitely be one of them. I think you could do an entire series on them because whether it just be trying to meddle in Law School admissions like Hugh Jr. did or going to great lengths as to try and influence the Athletic Departments over positions like Head Coaches and Starting Players (Think Texas and Auburn) on a roster, there are definitely some interesting characters that could be analyzed.

The Apple doesn't fall far from the Tree.

Watching these makes me realize how batshit insane some people are compared to me. Makes me feel a lot better about myself.

I hope that comes to fruition.

yeah that would be awesome, a very good owner to make a video on is ted stepien

A video on Fred Wilpon is long overdue

Dollar Bill Wirtz, Eugene Melnyk, Stan Kroenke, Donald Sterling, James Dolan, Peter Angelos, Charles Wang… the possibilities are endless. (The Leafs Half Century of Failure video is a de facto Harold Ballard video imo)

Can’t wait to sweep y’all again

@@someperson3883 Can’t wait to not see you guys in the playoffs yet again lmao. Beating the Bucs is like your Super Bowl

@@someperson3883 The first time you swept us, we beat you in the playoffs. Second time, you didn't even make the playoffs. Saints fans value regular season victories over winning titles.

@@greenfroppy212 We will beat y’all but we have a Super Bowl

@@RarelyEvenn I’ll give you that y’all beat us in the playoffs in 2020. We only missed last year because of injuries. We have a Super Bowl so beating the Bucs twice isn’t the biggest accomplishment ever it is one thing we have done

He was actually selected first overall in their inaugural draft. Makes it a bit sadder.

He had a bomb ass chain of restaurants at least. Till they ruined it after his death.

@Fries Salmon of course

@@maxsmith5483 I ate at 2 of his restaurants (Brandon and near Ray Jay). That was some tasty food!

He's immortalized here, we named our main expressway after him! Edit: also it's spelled Selmon, you can tell when someone is new in town when they say they took the "Salmon" lol

Which if you think about it is really something. This dude has spent years in Dan Snyders front office and still isn't the worst boss he's ever had

Really good book. I've listened to the audiobook a few times

That book is outstanding.

@@bigbearkat2010 In the case of Doug Williams, Snyder will allow his GMs to spend large amounts of money on players though if he wants to (not on stadium infrastructure and maintence though lol), the 2000 off-season is an example of this. Culverhouse was a miser who flat out refused to and would low-ball players all of the time. There is also the racist overtone (hopefully using the correct term here lol) of making him the lowest paid starting QB during a era where a black starting QB was still not the norm (he was drafted in 1978). Also the dick-head move of trying to sell him undeveloped real-estate as an incentive rather than monetary incentive (money) like a normal person .

@@edalder2000 Turns out Donald Trump was not the only con artist and or terrible owner that obtained ownership of a USFL team lol

Tell that to Manchester United

The Bucaneers is a franchise of thrills or chills in it's history. No in between

@@FelipeYoshioCordeirodeSouza at this point, I love watching Man U just for the comedy even though I had a much bigger laugh because of a certain French team…

@@FelipeYoshioCordeirodeSouza Man U didn't even need a billionaire owner to begin with. Man U used to be a self-sustaining club.

The Glazers have basically ruined the "Steelers" of English football. When they arrived Manchester United was the most successful and best club in the country and possibly the world..but they've run it into the ground

I never watched the BUCS, until my husband and I moved to Tampa Bay when his father's construction company got the contract for a two year deal on a bunch of luxury condominiums , to build them. The guy that owned the land it was being built on, had his own luxury suite in the stadium, and we'd go to the home games. I've been a fan every since, even though Dallas is my number one team.

Yeah. I remember that I really started paying attention in 2008. The year after gruden left. Over a decade of mediocrity (except 2010) and then one day boom, superbowl.

@@booneshow1863 there were flashes on offense before Brady with Fitz

Don’t forget Jameis. Well, except for the turnovers

Yeah but at least you have two rings My team doesn't have any

@@booneshow1863 I mean to be fair that's basically how both your super bowl's wins happened. The team sucked and then boom a super bowl and then it sucked and then another super bowl

I hated Greg schiano the most.

You guys will be heading back to football hades soon.

@@Shawn6751 yeah. Probably in two years.

Y'all got godell trying to help y'all

@@booneshow1863 Our 2013 team on paper were great ... he destroyed that team right out the gate.

I assume he is waiting for the eventual legacy of failure video on the LA Clippers

Is there anything he could add the Secret Base video didn't cover? I only know the broad strokes about the guy.

@@rangav248 He waits til when Kawhi and Paul George leave this franchise.

He hasn't done Ballard yet. Only Schott and Culverhouse.

@@reedermh he kind of has though, half of his Maple Leafs video was about how much of a douchenozzle Ballard was

Mike Brown collected more playoff wins in 1 year than Hustler Hugh did in 18 years.

As a bengals fan I wouldn’t go that far

Drafted by the Raaaaaaiders in the 7th round which is astounding in itself

It's not like he had a HoF career with you. What, one good season..

@@mikepastor.k6233 You do realize he played with the raiders PART TIME and had very impressive stats and averaged 5.4 yards a carry. If didn’t get that career ending injury he would have been a HOF’er in two sports. Please tell me you can’t be this dumb right?

We got our vengeance in 2002. The Raiders haven’t been relevant since.

Dan Snyder has to be up there. He has to, hes done so much (and so little simultaneously) in this regard

What about Donald Sterling?

I had to look up Stepien. He sounded terrible but Donald Sterling was worse

Thing is, Donald Sterling did move the Clippers- from San Diego to Los Angeles, against the NBA’s explicit wishes. The league was so pissed off that they nearly contracted the Clippers just so they could get Sterling off their hands.

William Clay Ford Sr., 53 years of futility and wasting multiple generational talents even producing Hugh Culverhouse like losing streaks including the legendary 0-16 season. While the stadiums he encouraged construction of were great, the show you got to watch rarely made the playoffs let alone win a game there.

hes just reading an article

He actually wants to cover relevant items, unlike a certain gator jaguar fan.

@@Seanpatf66 & that would be?

@@chadghostall5648 historiography is just reading articles in a scholarly manner

This isn't anything new. He's been doing deep dives for years. If anything, it's more frequent now.

Rest assured, you are not alone.

I wonder going to do one on a terrible NHL owner or NBA owner

@@epickendall1 NBA is easily Donald Sterling, NHL I think would be the infamous Dollar Bill Wirtz.

@@Charles_Groebs Would the owners of the Hawks and Thrashers in the 2000s qualify for both? Or just NHL, cause we did have good years from Iso Joe, Josh Smith, and Big Al.

@@Charles_Groebs never heard about the last guy

Even worse. They had to buy Wendy's for themselves. The team didn't provide it.

Lifelong Bucs fan here. I long knew about the Bucs' tiny HQ. I always wondered why that was the case throughout my childhood and it's clear why it was so tiny and drab. That the weight room in their current HQ is nearly as big as their entire original HQ was is stunning.

Another lifelong Bucs fan here. Most of my childhood took place after Culverhouse lowballed Doug Williams and I endured so much losing. I don't know how I remained a fan through all that.

He gave the nickname Succaneers to the bucs

@@marcus813 Facts.

@@someperson3883 Facts.

That’s how they became the Succaneers

@@someperson3883 before the browns, jags and lions there was the Bucs

@@Chuck_EL Well the lions still sucked

Bill walsh dodged a Bullet and we would not be talking about walsh if he went to the Bucaneers Walsh to the 49ers worked because the owner wasn't afraid to spend money as long as the team won and walsh could surround himself with talent players and coaches to adhere to the system. Culverhouse just ruined people no matter what he did the bucaneers were a cemetary of NFL careers to end or come to an end.

@@BTLAGS Funny how the roles are reversed now. The 49ers are freaking cheap while the Bucs go a spend. God I hate my team the 49ers 😭

Or the 53-year reign of William Clay Ford Sr., the man who wasted Calvin Johnson, Billy Sims, and Barry Sanders and only winning 2 playoff games in the whole span in 1968 and 1991. It was said that his father bought him the Lions so he wouldn't run Ford Motor Company into the ground.

@@Eibarwoman Henry Ford, in his grave, said of William Clay's passing: thanks God that I have no more grandsons alive, this one was a disgrace But William bought the Lions himself. He was a minor owner from 61, turning into sole owner after 1963. His father, Edsel, the only child of Henry Ford, passed away in 1943 at age 49, when William was 16-17 years old.

@Fries Only the Cowgirls would lose a playoff game to Detrash

It could be worse Stan Kroenke and Arsenal

@@chriswolf1089 Yeah but they haven't won the Premiere League since 2004.

2 Super Bowl wins though. I don’t follow soccer but the Glazers are god compared to Culverhouse.

​@@JuicyPlayer The Glazers got lucky with the Bucs. Man U didn't have debt before they came and now they have a crap ton of debt

@@nathanhosea489 winning 2 super bowls isn’t luck

ESPN made a good documentary about Spano already

IIRC, Baldwin gave away the farm to get Civic Arena renovated in the late 90's, which cut off the Pens revenue-making abilities at the knee. That's what put them in bankruptcy and nearly had them move.

@@UrinatingTree Tree, both you and I know that Baldwin was a shyster who was broke and BSed his way into taking control of the Penguins with debt and other people's money. Some of that blame falls on the late Ed Debartolo. De Bartolo had money for horse race tracks, shopping plazas, the Pittsburgh Maulers, malls (R.I.P. Century III, I loved that place when it was new) and the 49ers. The one entity he whined about losing money on was the Penguins. I give him credit for allowing the rebuild to take place under his watch but it was low class to whine about it at the Cup celebration. So, he dumped the team for a piddly $11 million (in 1991 dollars) to Baldwin's group. Baldwin dumped the skating penguin for the pigeon. Baldwin switched the radio rights to WTAE (I could listen to the games on KDKA from Northeast Ohio and the Baltimore-DC area, but WTAE's signal could not reach the top of Mount Washington - and that was during the day. The drafts under Baldwin were bad - the scouting department budget had to be cut. There was Straka and nothing else. The guy who owned the Cleveland Lumberjacks, the Pens' farm team, had to sign and use veteran IHL players because the Pens had no prospects. Something both DeBartolo and Baldwin were guilty of was not pushing for a new arena. The old Igloo, even with great views from the lower E balconies, was obsolete in the 1970s. DeBartolo's real estate development expertise could have landed a new arena in the late 1980s or early 1990s. The Pens should have got a new arena - either between PNC Park and Heinz Field, or entered into a partnership with Pitt to have a new arena in Oakland (not Oakland, California, for aht of tahners) using what is the present day wasteland across the Boulevard of the Allies from Magee Women's Hospital. Heck, Pitt could have had a scholarship hockey team and the football Panthers could have played in a new stadium on the site of the old Pitt Stadium...another story. But...Baldwin was broke, not making the Cup final in 1993 or 1994 with teams good enough to make it there, his failure of a movie, his failure to attract partners with deep pockets, etc. The Penguins had underfunded owners in the 1960s and 1970s, but Baldwin was worse than any of them. DeBartolo had to suffer with the 1982-83 and 1983-84 Penguins, who drew about 4,000 a game, whose top star was Mike Bullard, in the midst of a recession that took Western Pennsylvania's unemployment to about 16%. It's worth mentioning that Baldwin was involved in owning the Whalers and the North Stars. He didn't cause them to move - they had their own problems - but Baldwin did nothing to help. Think about it....Mario never got paid the entire amount of that big contract he signed with Baldwin. When Mario got the Pens out of bankruptcy court, he had a .500 team that was absent almost all the stars from the early 1990s, an inactive AHL franchise, an old and obsolete barn with seats as comfortable to sit on as a bed of nails and a scouting staff that was threadbare. The bankruptcy judge was favorable to Mario, but he still had a list of secured creditors to pay. Somehow he managed to get Burkle to put up $20 million and they set about making the Penguins a showcase franchise. Mario, who came to Pittsburgh barely speaking English, who dropped out of school after the 10th grade (if memory serves), who had NO experience running any kind of business...became a better owner than 99% of the jagoffs who own teams in all the North American major sports leagues. Mario paid off every creditor, secured and unsecured, at 100% to the dollar. He set up the hospital playrooms for kids and started his own foundation. The Penguins had no huge TV & radio market to bail out financial mistakes. The Pens' opponents were almost all playing in newer arenas with more money from parking, club seats, boxes and sponsorships. Yet, the Pens beat all odds. Mario belongs in the Hockey Hall of Fame as an owner. Every indoor ice rink within 70 miles of Pittsburgh is almost always busy with youth hockey and we need more rinks. Crummy, greedy, lousy owners deserve to be excoriated. Those who do great work both with their franchises and off the field/court/ice should be promoted.

They were called the Redskins when they won. No need to be scared of using that name

*Redskins They won't be the "Commanders" until recently.

The former Redskins should've gone with the Rebels as their new name to keep the red and gold in them. Commanders doesn't suit them.

Doug Williams never played for the Commanders. He did play for the Redskins

The Redskins , will never use that stupid new name.

Culverhouse's Widow felt that way because Hugh screwed her over financially and also had multiple extra marital affairs behind her back as well.

She loved money

15:50

The fact that McKay got an 0-14 team to within 5 years be one win away from the Super Bowl is damn impressive. If Culverhouse wasn't the miser POS he was, McKay would've had a much better coaching career in the NFL

@Michael Orme sounds right for Detroit.

@Michael Orme when did Bobby Layne curse the Lions?

As a Steeler fan, I thank William Clay Ford and the Lions for Kevin Colbert. Colbert was the Lion's director of player scouting in the late 90's. The Lions could have had Colbert running the team instead of Matt Millen. Instead he builds championship and contending teams in Pittsburgh.

Even as a Bucs fan, I never blamed Jackson for not suiting up for the Bucs given the stunt the club pulled.

@@marcus813 I don't blame Bo either. I blame Culverhouse.

@@marcus813 Same here. What the Bucs tried to pull was disgusting

I believe Bo jackson not going to Tampa was the best thing to happen to Bo jackson he would have been ruined by the Bucs and their track record.

@@BTLAGS Based on how Culverhouse ran things, he might have ruined a promising backfield of Jackson and Steve Young anyway.

Georgia Frontiere was a female.

@@SylveonMujigaeOfficial I’m aware of that

I'm one of those fans. The Bucs made the playoffs in the strike-marred '82 season, but I was only a baby back then. As a result, I didn't get to watch the Bucs in a playoff game on live TV until I was in freakin' HIGH SCHOOL! I don't know how I remained a fan during my childhood, but I was rewarded for it.

Compared to the 90% of Brady wagons

It was the Bandits owner who was strongly against the Generals owner’s half-baked scheme to shift to a fall schedule which was one of many reasons if not the one reason why the USFL folded

@holykuhrap That’s for another story…

@holykuhrap It doesn't hurt that Bud Adams firing Bum Phillips for not beating the (Super Bowl Champion) Raiders only to tank the next decade really pissed off the entire city of Houston.

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@@badger6728 WHO DEY

I looked him up on wikipedia just to see. I didn't find that much, but I found this gem: "His refusal to integrate was routinely mocked by Shirley Povich, a columnist for The Washington Post, who called him "one of pro football’s greatest innovators, and its leading bigot." Marshall unsuccessfully sued Povich for $200,000 after a critical article." Dan Snyder didn't learn from history it seems like.

Similar to Culverhouse, Marshall did some good things for the league, including creating the championship game playoff system, making a more equal playing schedule for teams, and using television to do regular broadcasts of games. However, he was absolutely a Kx3 member in all but an official title. A complete racist POS. He protested the formation of the Cowboys, because he wanted Washington to be the team of the deep South, and Texas was part of his territory. He wasn't allowed to field his team in RFK Stadium until the local government forced him to integrate, and when he gave in and traded for Bobby Mitchell, in Mitchell's first meeting with the team, Marshall led the rest of the white players in singing "Dixie", and forced Mitchell to sing with them.

@@Tyrunner0097 Honestly, the feds should have evicted GPM and the Skins form RFK Stadium until he sold the Skins.

The apocryphal story is that RFK threatened to lock them out of the then-new DC Stadium in his guise as Attorney General unless the team integrated.

Yeah I didn't think much of John Kent Cook but I wish he didn't have to sell the team. Now Washington is doomed forever, our only hope is to keep winning this terrible division with 8-9 records and try to avoid Seattle in the playoffs.

You never know. Bruce Arians has had them going in the right direction as of late

The Lions have the same with William Clay Ford around for 53 years dragging the team down to a 45.1%. Barring a second coming of Lombardi or Belichick, you're not going to dig out of that hole.

It would take the Glazers ages to get the Bucs out of that hole, but they did preside over 2 Super Bowl titles, which I'm thankful for.

@@Eibarwoman Dan Campbell eats William Clay Ford's kneecaps for breakfast!

sub 0.5 doesn't bother me. we have the best SB trophies : total wins ratio

UrinatingTree was also not going into detail, this was just a synopsis, it gets MUCH WORSE in detail.

@@Spartan536 Feel free to give us the details!

@@docfrazier99 I would need to make a hour long video at minimum. To put it bluntly here as UrinatingTree stated at the end of his video, his WIDOWED WIFE would like to have resurrected her dead husband just to shoot him with every bullet she could get. The man was one of the biggest pieces of shit to ever walk the Earth, and that is putting him right next to people like Stalin, Putin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Hitler.

Hopefully Anthony Precourt is next

If Tree was more into the NBA, he could do a good one on Herb Kohl. Yes, he's still appreciated for doing all he could to keep the Bucks in Milwaukee, and we're eternally grateful, but Kohl was like Harold Ballard in that he only allowed the Bucks to be good enough to make the playoffs, then collect the playoff revenue. Never wanted to spend just a bit more to make the team better and also scrimped many times on improving the Bradley Center. Yes, some fans are now bashing Lasry and Edens for continually raising ticket prices (20-50% increases for season ticket holders), but they're at least spending money on the team, and we finally got a championship back in Milwaukee.

Good thing the Broncos are for sell

I would suggest he do one on Texas Rangers ownership. Except that outside of W, NONE of them have been good.

@@reedermh Did W ever lead the team to the playoffs? I don't think so. All I know about his tenure there was that he traded Sammy Sosa to Chicago, to which as a Cubs fan I said at the time, "THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!!!!!!!!!!!".

One of the best easily.

Or Warren Moon playing in Canada for 4-5 years

Those Joe Gibbs Redskins teams were the epitome of class and professionalism. He survived that wacky Jay Schroeder competition to have the greatest quarter in Superbowl history!

The way they lost the North Stars is an all time scumbag move

@@tehbeernerd I'm sure you know more than I do....wasn't the Met Sports Center and Metropolitan Stadium torn down to make way for the Mall of America? It seems Green thought he could sell the team for more money with it being based in Dallas, which is what he did. It sux, but at least you got another team. Green is hated in Minnesota, Modell is hated in Cleveland, Irsay is hated in Baltimore, Bob Short was hated in Washington, DC (but the Senators moved to Texas 50 years ago). I'm sure Cal Griffith wasn't loved in DC for moving the first Senators to the Twin Cities.....

Did Norm ever return to Minneapolis or even Minnesota?

@@penguinsfan251Also, I have heard that Bud Adams is hated in Houston.

They are great owners by NFL standards. They’re not cheap and actually invest in the team.

at least y'all had some compensation (in the form of good results) for all the mismanagement, cheapness, bafoonery and etc

Y'know, when you put it that way, maybe being blessed with the good fortune of having Brady swing by to create a superteam in his twilight years isn't such a bad thing, after all. :/

@@christmashake8968 For Sure! Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would see the Bucs become one of the most dominant teams in the NFL. Not even in the Dungy/Gruden years!!

Even as a Bucs fan, I wouldn't wish this record on any NFL club.

Glenn Taylor is so bad that KG actually refused to have his number retired as long as Taylor was the owner. At least that dream came true for Garnett.

SB Nation has one on the Glenn Taylor/KG beef.

He played good football for the Browns, Ravens and Jets.

My library has a copy. It's terrific. I hope Tree pulls from the book (I'm three minutes in to the video).

Might be something I'll eventually look into. Thanks for da tip. For any1 else looking for good books about American-style football I'd recommend "Long Bomb: How the XFL Became TV's Biggest Fiasco" by Brett Forrest, who did the sports beat for the Las Vegas Review-Journal & had a front row seat for the city original pro sports franchise. Talk about a hot mess.

@@JoeVideoed That's also good - bought a secondhand copy in 2010 before the league's rebirth was even a thing. Apparently Forrest mentioned on Twitter that he had a few copies in boxes because the book didn't sell well in 2002. (He made that comment in the wake of McMahon's relaunch announcement in 2018.)

I'm 40 as of this post and you should definitely be glad you didn't live through that mess like I did. It was worse than what you grew up watching! LOL

He already has. It's one of his earlier videos

@@Tyrunner0097 has he? I’m not talking about the video he made on the Bears, I mean a video solely focused on the McCaskey’s.

How is that lady still alive?

I feel like that story needs told in modern times, since Seattle got extremely lucky when Paul Allen ended up purchasing the team. If I recall, moving trucks were just about ready to move the team to California before Allen stepped in.

@@johnchedsey1306 All of this was occurring not too long after the Mariners had that improbable season to keep baseball in the Emerald City.

As a Seahawks fan, I'd love to see this, as well as one on whichever Spanos decided to tear the hearts out of Charger fans in San Diego. And Clay Bennett. Seriously, f*** that guy.

@@miked237 #BringBackTheSonics

@@johnchedsey1306 I think the NFL smacked it down at the last moment. Behring already had the team offices set up in the Anaheim area before the move. They were really close to fucking off.

That's why even as a longtime Bucs fan, I always sided with Jackson on this issue.

@@marcus813 As a Bucs fan AND an Auburn student who watched Bo rampage over defenses on Saturday afternoons, I will always side with Bo over this fiasco.

Or why not a LoF for a college basketball team?? Gonzaga would be a good choice, if they choke again.

@@djtrankilo231 LoFs would be for perpetually bad teams, not for top-notch programs that just fell short of winning the big 1.

@@JoeVideoed idk. Plenty of the LoFs Tree covered had their multiple chances of winning it all.

@@djtrankilo231 A bit late to respond but Gonzaga lost again

WCF and Martha were lousy owners, but they weren't scumbags. WCF was simply a nice guy who was loyal to a fault.

Martha was fine. She may be unfairly credited with the Quinntricia hires, but when she took over, she immediately made moves to get better. The Lions made two playoff appearances under her in her first 3 years. Not really her fault Tony Dungy and the others on that council said to hire Bob Quinn

@Fries Yes that guy

That's what I was thinking about Culverhouse until I saw this video. He sure was a piece of work!

@Fries also saw Favre potential when he was dying in ATLANTA depth chart

They had a good level of success when they were still at R.F.K. Stadium on East Capitol Street on the edge of Capitol Hill. They would have had a new stadium built in the city if then Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon (Kelly) had made the offer to then owner Jack Kent Cooke in the early 90's, who also at one point prior to owning Washington, owned the L.A. Lakers before the Buss family took over as well as the Los Angeles Kings when they were still wearing the colors of the Lakers, instead of going out to Landover.

Oh Hustler Hugh had plenty of capital. He was just a greedy skinflint.

@@mach6893 Going further into the video, I found that out. I’ll never understand that kind of mentality. How such people like him, Ballard and Marge Schott become successful and get to own sports franchises boggles the mind. The only way I can put it is this: I could never understand how pimps, the brutal kind, not only became wealthy but maintained the loyalty of his *ahem* employees when everything you know about business, ethics and humanity says that it’s doomed to failure.

Oh, I bet the St. Louis fans have a lot to say about the Bidwills. 27 years in St. Louis and not one home playoff game. Then to get the Rams, sell out the place, only to have Kroenke destroy the team on purpose as a front to move them back to LA.

Yes...but in fairness to the Capitals, the number of NHL caliber players at that time was so minimal - and the WHA was still around. It took seven years for the Capitals to make the playoffs starting in 1982-83. Since then, they have missed the playoffs only a handful of times, maybe four or five seasons. That's pretty good.

Facts, just goes to show up how bad ownership screwed over the team. Anyways God bless you and go Bucs.

Even our Bucs' worst stretch in the Glazer era was a cakewalk compared to the long stretch of ineptitude under Culverhouse.

And thank god they brought tony dungy in who set the foundation for warren sapp Derrick brooks and John lynch to win Super Bowl 37 against the raiders

@@jakebuchsbaum3348 Sam Wyche drafted those three (thank goodness someone there had the good sense to draft Lynch, who threw the Marlins organization's first pitch ever in spite of the Bo Jackson fiasco), but the game changed for them once Dungy brought his Tampa 2 system here to Tampa Bay. I remember seeing Dungy's Vikings Ds do well and I was excited when I heard the Bucs hired him as their head coach.

They tried to WHAT the Colts? I know what Eminent Domain is, but what the hell? What legal standing would that have?

@@antoniotrivelloni8191 honestly, considering how dependent of the local governments NFL teams are, it would be curious if one government simply took everything

My comments seem to be vanishing. "baltimore colts eminent domain" into a search bar will give you a few good articles

The Baltimore City Council didn't try invoking eminent domain until the afternoon after the Mayflowers slipped out in the night.

@@Archduke17 The legislature passed it before the Colts left, according to Forbes. They got out before the governor signed it. Passed->left->signed