New England Patriots IPO ?

[Chuckanut]

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Originally Posted by Midpack Seems a little premature, not uncommon these days, especially given the recent missteps re: the Smollett incident where lots of folks loudly jumped to conclusions that may prove false.

+1

Much to the embarrassment of the modern news media, we have had two recent 'outrage' events where the press jumped on the story without bothering to fact check what actually happened or confirm the sources.

Let's let the legal process play itself out and see where the evidence leads us.

[Bir48die]

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Originally Posted by Midpack Seems a little premature, not uncommon these days, especially given the recent missteps re: the Smollett incident where lots of folks loudly jumped to conclusions that may prove false. Maybe wait a couple days before gleefully dancing on someone's grave? If it proves to be true, Kraft is a colossal idiot, and I'm a Pats fan.

I dislike the Pats.....a lot. I mean a lot. However, Robert Kraft is a great owner and a good person.

He was devastated when his wife of many years died. Did he make a mistake? Absolutely. We all do stupid things and if we were held accountable as much as these guys then life would be a lot tougher.

He lead a group of retired Christian athletes to Israel and documented it. Pretty dang cool.

So, just chalk it up to a bad decision. If you want to get into the discussion of objectifying women and supporting this business then that's a whole new discussion.

As far as an IPO, I don't really care.

[marko]

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Originally Posted by Bir48die I dislike the Pats.....a lot. I mean a lot. However, Robert Kraft is a great owner and a good person. He was devastated when his wife of many years died. Did he make a mistake? Absolutely. We all do stupid things and if we were held accountable as much as these guys then life would be a lot tougher. He lead a group of retired Christian athletes to Israel and documented it. Pretty dang cool. So, just chalk it up to a bad decision. If you want to get into the discussion of objectifying women and supporting this business then that's a whole new discussion. As far as an IPO, I don't really care.

Well put!

For me the stupidity is in "what's a guy like that doing at a $59 strip mall massage parlor??" With that kind of resources and potential risk, home delivery for maybe $1K worth of discretion seemed like a much better option IMO.

[Huston55]

We’ve had:

- Snowplowgate
- Spygate
- Deflategate

We need a name for this event. Hmmmm...

[MichaelB]

An IPO for a football team is an interesting topic. Why don’t we all get back on topic and skip,all that other stuff.

[Lakewood90712]

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Originally Posted by MichaelB An IPO for a football team is an interesting topic. Why don’t we all get back on topic and skip,all that other stuff.

The NFL team ownership structure as is aparently limits co owners to 31. IPO not going to happen anytime soon, prob. never as long as billionaires like to own teams. Sure would be nice to own a piece of some teams.



I see no issues with the JR Kraft taking over. Other sports team owners have been pushed out over scandals- Donald Sterling ?

The structure giving other team owners enormous power.

[Nick12]

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Originally Posted by MichaelB An IPO for a football team is an interesting topic. Why don’t we all get back on topic and skip,all that other stuff.

Looking at it more closely the Kraft family has set up the family to control the Patriots like the good old boys network. To consider an IPO would open up the dark dirty secrets of the organization or any organization in general in disclosure matters to the public.