Who's Nicer? Benson or Shinn

dninc said
Benson can't take the Saints anywhere, a bunch of Investors would come in and pay off Benson in a heart beat and sell the saints to the state if he tries that crap again....

I agree with that in part. I fully believe that if Benson were to try to take the Saints out of state that a contingent of investors would come forward and at least make a valiant attempt to try to keep them here.

But sell to the state? Nope. Can't happen. The NFL has rules about who can and cannot purchase an NFL franchise. There will never again be a publicly held NFL franchise ala Green Bay. The State cannot buy the franchise from an investor group. Against NFL rules...

Current NFL bylaws dictate that an NFL franchise's principal owner must have at least 30-per-cent equity interest in the corporate entity that controls a club, and no more than 25 "owners" can hold equity interest in the team...The sole exception are the Green Bay Packers, community owned as an original NFL franchise and as a result grandfathered in and not subject to the current NFL ownership guidelines.

http://sportsbiznews.blogspot.com/2007/10/nfl-expansion-to-canada-will-not.html