[CBFF] Owner rankings

[mactbone]

Georgia Frontiere won a Super Bowl and the Rams have been competitive during her time as owner. Dan Snyder isn't a good football owner, but he's wildly successful at marketing, etc. I think that counts as part of the job - even if we as fans don't care.

The worst owners have to be William Clay Ford, the Bidwells, and Mike Brown. The ownership group in Cleveland is awful too but I think it's too short of a time to call them the worst. Red McCombs was bad but he's not the owner anymore. The Tennessee owner (Bob McNair? or is that Texas?) I'd say is bottom half - for all the success in the latter 90s and early 00s they didn't understand the salary cap and let it all explode. However, I'm not sure there's many more that I would put as worse than McCaskey.

Ownership is completely responsible for all aspects of a team - financial and otherwise. For the McCaskey's to hire a firm to search for a GM (I thought it showed they knew they were clueless, which is fine because it'll get the best guy, but owners shouldn't be clueless), to still have problems with money (talk about the actual cash money paid in a year as important in negotiations instead of the strict salary cap implications) in the second largest market in the NFL, to have the dismal 90s and early 00s, and Wanny and Jauron were both hired before Angelo - which shouldn't even be an excuse since they hired Angelo and have to take responsibility for his actions. To me, the McCaskey's are in the bottom third. It would be interesting to look at some posts by people even a couple years ago - but I know that there was a lot of rancor towards the McCaskeys when we all knew Jauron was clueless and during the Angelo search.
-Chris

----- Original Message ----
From: Jason Cetina <jason at cetinas.org>
To: post at chicagobearsfanforum.com
Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2007 11:49:34 AM
Subject: Re: [CBFF] Owner rankings


Of course I remember the 90s. I'm just saying that in the past few years,
the Bears have done a lot to shed the image they developed in the 90s. And
seriously, do you really think Daniel Snyder or Georgia Frontiere deserves a
higer ranking?

On 7/4/07, mactbone <mactbone0 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Ummmm, you remember the 90s, don't you? Two years doesn't wipe out Wanny
> and Jauron. Rooney's Steelers have five Super Bowl wins - and have to have a
> better winning percentage from the 70s to now.
>
> I'm seeing a lot of people willing to forget a lot because of two years.
> -Chris
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jason Cetina <jason at cetinas.org>
> To: post at chicagobearsfanforum.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2007 5:08:18 PM
> Subject: [CBFF] Owner rankings
>
>
>
> http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/michael_silver/06/27/ownerrankings/index.html
>
> Apparently, Mike McCaskey owns the Bears, which is why they are ranked
> 26th.
>
> I actually think that Virginia and Ed's decision to give Michael the boot
> upstairs after the McGinnis fiasco has helped turn the franchise around.
> If
> they continue on course, they are on par with Art Rooney.
>
> Quote:
>
> 26. Michael McCaskey, Bears
>
> Just as the Yorks don't seem capable of parlaying the nearby Silicon
> Valley
> wealth into big-picture endeavors that buoy the franchise, McCaskey is a
> massive marketing underachiever. He has a storied team in the nation's
> second-most-populated market where pro football is played; a team, mind
> you,
> coming off its first Super Bowl appearance in 21 years. Yet the biggest
> buzz
> coming out of Chi-town over the offseason has been:
>
> a) The team's cheap stance toward underpaid coach *Lovie Smith*, who
> finally
> signed a contract extension after his agent announced it wasn't likely to
> happen?
>
> b) Smith's curious decision to cut loose highly regarded defensive
> coordinator *Ron Rivera* -- and, a cynic would note, remove a potential
> candidate to replace Smith as his own contract situation played out?
>
> c) The organization's hard-line stance toward franchised playmaking
> linebacker *Lance Briggs*, to whom they have no intention of offering a
> long-term contract, and apparently aren't open to trading, likely ensuring
> he'll miss more than half of the season?
>
> d) Troubled defensive tackle *Tank Johnson*'s jail stint, traffic stop in
> Arizona and subsequent release, with Smith and general manager *Jerry
> Angelo
> * acting utterly stunned by his misbehavior?
>
> The answer is, Who cares? It's McCaskey's world; the rest of us just laugh
> at it. Chicago fans should be less stressed about *Rex Grossman* and more
> appalled at the performance of *this* signal-caller.
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