Post by blackthorne on Feb 18, 2007 13:52:51 GMT -5
Scott Taylor's latest view on the Bombers, on his website http://www.scotttaylorsports.com:
Sometimes, you just have to wonder how gullible people are. In a Winnipeg Sun report on the Blue Bombers' community ownership model on Sunday, columnist Paul Friesen quoted former Bombers GM Cal Murphy, the man who hoodwinked the volunteer board into allowing the team to fall $5.8 million in debt, as saying: "Be very careful. If you can help it, if you can run the thing financially and keep the thing secure, I would say keep on doing what you're doing. When it's a private ownership, there's less ownership in the city. There is a certain amount of pride in having public ownership. I realize the public doesn't really own it. But they do, in a way. They do get a say in the thing. They can get on the (board of) directors."
Oh poppycock! First of all, the average citizen can't get on the board of directors. Community ownership means "friends of." In the 70s, it meant "friends of Earl Lunsford. " In the 80s and 90s, it was "friends of Cal Murphy." Today, in fairness, it's friends of "Lyle Bauer, Sam Katz and Gary Doer" because there is still a stakeholders committee and, therefore, the mayor and premier have a say on the membership of the board. But me and you? We're never getting invited onto that board. Meanwhile, when it comes to running the football club as a "community-owned" operation, if it wasn't for millions in taxpayers cash, loans and debt forgiveness, the Bombers would have gone under years ago. Translation. What Murphy said was, in fact, "Keep doing what you're doing as long as government will let you get away with it." It must be working. After all, the Bombers did win a Grey Cup in 1990. This is obviously working in every sense.
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Gotta say I agree with him on this one...
Sometimes, you just have to wonder how gullible people are. In a Winnipeg Sun report on the Blue Bombers' community ownership model on Sunday, columnist Paul Friesen quoted former Bombers GM Cal Murphy, the man who hoodwinked the volunteer board into allowing the team to fall $5.8 million in debt, as saying: "Be very careful. If you can help it, if you can run the thing financially and keep the thing secure, I would say keep on doing what you're doing. When it's a private ownership, there's less ownership in the city. There is a certain amount of pride in having public ownership. I realize the public doesn't really own it. But they do, in a way. They do get a say in the thing. They can get on the (board of) directors."
Oh poppycock! First of all, the average citizen can't get on the board of directors. Community ownership means "friends of." In the 70s, it meant "friends of Earl Lunsford. " In the 80s and 90s, it was "friends of Cal Murphy." Today, in fairness, it's friends of "Lyle Bauer, Sam Katz and Gary Doer" because there is still a stakeholders committee and, therefore, the mayor and premier have a say on the membership of the board. But me and you? We're never getting invited onto that board. Meanwhile, when it comes to running the football club as a "community-owned" operation, if it wasn't for millions in taxpayers cash, loans and debt forgiveness, the Bombers would have gone under years ago. Translation. What Murphy said was, in fact, "Keep doing what you're doing as long as government will let you get away with it." It must be working. After all, the Bombers did win a Grey Cup in 1990. This is obviously working in every sense.
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Gotta say I agree with him on this one...