ESPN POWER RANKINGS - OWNERSHIP

[Smeefers]

The line shouldn't end anywhere. The packers is basically a co-op operation. Just because it's owned by many people doesn't mean it's not owned. John Clayton is a Dusche bag. ESPN has always had something against the packers.

[Pugger]

So he can express an opinion when there are multiple owners, but just not when it is the Packers? Where's the line? Less than 10 shareholders? 20? 100? Why the arbitrary distinction? Sounds lazy to me: grading the Packers would require me to think harder than I want to think I will just disqualify them instead.

Clayton's argument is freaking weak. He had an agenda. But I don't give a chit about his insignificant opinion. Most knowledgeable folks know the Packers have a great ownership situation.

[pbmax]

Clayton's argument is freaking weak. He had an agenda. But I don't give a chit about his insignificant opinion. Most knowledgeable folks know the Packers have a great ownership situation.

Clayton is a Pittsburgh boy (though he worked professionally in Seattle), I think. He might be doing the hometown a favor.

[swede]

This just like the change in the "Click for Cans"rules. People get sick of Green Bay dominating so they change rules and criteria to get different results.

This was the "When Green Bay's Unique Organizational Structure Is Excluded From Consideration Who Has the Best Ownership in Football" power ranking because, by all observable measures, Green Bay is being run quite wisely and with an eye always on the future of the team and its finances.

As long as Green Bay continues to get six points for touchdowns like everybody else, the clowns running the sideshows can juggle whatever they want to get whatever results they want.

[channtheman]

This just like the change in the "Click for Cans"rules. People get sick of Green Bay dominating so they change rules and criteria to get different results.

This was the "When Green Bay's Unique Organizational Structure Is Excluded From Consideration Who Has the Best Ownership in Football" power ranking because, by all observable measures, Green Bay is being run quite wisely and with an eye always on the future of the team and its finances.

As long as Green Bay continues to get six points for touchdowns like everybody else, the clowns running the sideshows can juggle whatever they want to get whatever results they want.

What did they change about click for cans?

[swede]

What did they change about click for cans?

For many years the top vote-getter straight up won the glory and the soup for local food pantries. Green Bay would leave all but a few in the dust and the outcome was all but determined quite early in the process.

The last two years they have gone to a head-to-head tournament style which has allowed half of the teams to win at least once in the first week of the competition.

[CaliforniaCheez]

Packerbacker 1234,

You list some of the great things about the Packers, but you forget about the real ownership of the team. The team is ultimately controlled by the board. If the board acts smartly, and hires real football men to run the organization, and doesn't interfere, the Packers will always have a chance for greatness. When the board interferes, as throughout the 70s and 80s, the organization is in grave danger. A board that controls the Packers can work only so long as the people on it place the good of the Packers above their egos. Not surprisingly, this is true of individual owners as well.

That is really true of any leadership structure. I think it is clear that AL Davis cares more about being dictator of that franchises than what is good for football. Jerry Jones being GM of the football team is like Matt Millen and Mike Sherman learning on the job when they have not done it before.

At some point you have to hire the best people you can and trust them. If you find a good auto mechanic you have to trust him under the hood and accuse him of immorality or incompetence in things you do not understand.

Right now the Packers management appears to have their egos in check. Thompson and McCarthy are not seeking to be in the media because their egos need it. They are at the pinacles of their professions. They seem to have a good working relationship for now.

Murphy has done nothing for him to feel he should throw his weight around. The board, they know if it isn't boken don't fix it.