Bears' owners getting pounded worse than QB

[Scoot26]

It has been a rough week for Bears ownership.

First, the Bears were dubbed the NFL's most neglected brand by Forbes magazine. The scorching report labeled the Bears as "financial flatliners," noting that despite their high national recognition factor, the franchise placed ninth in the magazine's NFL valuations rankings with a worth of $1.07 billion. That made them the lowest-ranked large-market team, ranking behind even the small-market Baltimore Ravens.

Now Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports is piling on, applying the kind of heat that Jay Cutler usually feels when he fades back to pass. In his fifth annual NFL owner rankings, the Bears are fifth from the bottom, with the only worse ownerships being (from the bottom up) the Raiders, Bengals, Lions and Browns.

In noting that Michael McCaskey will step down as chairman at the end of
this season, Silver writes that he "will leave behind a financial state
of affairs that, in relative terms, can best be described as flaccid."



"It's just mismanagement," one NFL owner says. "They really should be
the tops in revenue, ahead of Dallas. Someday someone else will get a
hold of that thing and it'll be a monster."

But as Silver observes, that isn't likely to happen any time soon, given the McCaskeys' pledge to retain ownership of the franchise for the foreseeable future.

Bears' owners getting pounded worse than QB - Chicago Breaking Sports

 

[Scoot26]

My understand has always been that when Virginia dies that ownership shares would be split so much among the children that they would end up selling the team to some guy who is part of Aon Corporation who has a stake in ownership currently. This guy is a football guy and just from reading in the past a few tidbits about him (cant find it right now) that he would be able to run this team correctly.

 

[cubsneedmiracle]

My understand has always been that when Virginia dies that ownership shares would be split so much among the children that they would end up selling the team to some guy who is part of Aon Corporation who has a stake in ownership currently. This guy is a football guy and just from reading in the past a few tidbits about him (cant find it right now) that he would be able to run this team correctly.

:crazydance:

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Yeah, in L.A.

 

[Dpauley23]

Yeah, in L.A.

I doubt they put 2 teams in LA. If you read the 2 part of this piece today you'll see that the Chargers are planning on moving the team in a couple of years