I can't remember who, but one of those stupid monkeys on the morning show today had the metal-beam-bending stupidity to say, in a slurp-tastic lead up to an interview with the Kraft family, that the Krafts were such great owners and so far ahead of the curve in terms of sports ownership that they were being copied by other football franchises not in how they run their organization or delegate football decisions or reach out to their fans, but in how they build shopping malls and restaurants around their stadium. I shit you not.
Yes, apparently all those brand new baseball stadiums that have popped up in the last 15 years which are surrounded by shopping centers, bars and restaurants, the old plans to move Giants stadium to the West-Side of Manhattan to be next to the best shopping an restaurants in the entire country, and the plans for the Mets' new stadium which has been in the works for several years and will include shopping and restaurants in the surrounding area, were all copied from the Krafts!!!
So when the Giants and Cowboys (as monkey boy cited to) decide to put shopping and restuarants near their stadiums, we know they are not following this tried and true model of sports franchise management that has existed for over a decade, they are copying the Messrs. Kraft! We know this because the Krafts - in additon to inventing putting places that sell stuff near places where lots of people go, like sports stadiums - also invented time travel and sent a killer robot through a worm-hole back to the early 90s to lead a sports management revolution. That robot is Mark Cuban.
Why didn't the Pats build Patriots' Place in the early 90s if they had the advantage of time travel? Well, they didn't have fans back then.
Update: The Hartford Whalers used to play basically inside of a shopping mall in the 80s!
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