Get Your Red Hot Whiney Excuses Here!

[Stingo]

Billionaire Jeff Lurie and his Philadelphia Eagles are still dodging a $8MM bill they owe the City of Philadelphia at a time when the city is closing libraries. Affidavits have now been given and we hear, for the first time, that there was a verbal deal with the last Mayor, who simply wasn’t trustworthy. Yes, it’s whiney excuses all the way.

http://allspinzone.com/wp/2009/04/01/jeff-lurie-revenues-owed-city-unelected-in-the-mail-by-the-dog/

[psychmommy]

1. with the city in trouble and the team still doing well,

the team could have went a long ways by donating money in strategic ways-to keep pools open or libraries for goodness sake. they would have gotten so much good press and it would have been tax deductible. instead their lack of generosity makes folks focus on their negatives. that 8 mil isn't gonna be tax deductible. ask the native americans how good the handshake and i give you my word thing worked. you lose lurie-pay up.

[Stingo]

2. Well, they owe the money

You can't deduct what you owe, though I'm sure something could have been worked out. They simply refused to talk on the subject, pinning their hopes on Street's word. It should be noted that Street's word is worth crap.

[bertman]

3. The worst part of this is that the hard-core Eagles fans won't have the gumption to

boycott their team because of this.

Or am I wrong? Eagles fans, speak up, please.

[Stingo]

4. I'm not boycotting

[psychmommy]

5. i am not boycotting the team.

a letter to the editor of a couple of papers-re:management. many of the players do get involved with the city.

[psychmommy]

6. hey sting, i heard on npr today

that mayor street said he made no such agreement. aww shoot it is on like hot buttered popcorn. hahaha.

[Stingo]

8. Yeah, it's in all the papers

A verbal agreement with Mayor Street is worth far less than the paper it is written on. The man was not trustworthy. Here's an operation where the President, Joe Banner, is considered a financial genius, and where the value of the team has increased fivefold over 12 years. And they claim to have gone with a verbal agreement? No, it is not plausible.

[burning rain]

7. See where this one goes.

Knock me over with a feather if another great American city ends up pandering to a sports team. They and Wal Mart tend to get things all their own way with all kinds of concessions and subsidies and special treatment.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. Yeah, Minnesota has a budget shortfall and it's building stadiums for

literal billionaires. And there are just enough sports nuts (i.e. people who think sports are so earth-shakingly important that they don't read any other section of the paper, won't talk to anybody while a game or even a replay is on, and natter on and on about how much sports contribute to the "quality of life" in places like Detroit) for them to get away with it.