http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writ...ings/index.html</p> </p> The rankings are on the first 7 pages. I really hate how SI does their stories.</p> I'll list the top 10, but don't have time to type the rest. Hopefully someone else will add the others</p> Robert Kraft Jerry Jones Jerry Richardson Glazer brothers Daniel Snyder Jeffrey Lurie Bob McNair Wayne Huizenga Dan Rooney Pat Bowlen Personally, I think he is off his rocker with just the top 10. Paul Allen is a better owner than Daniel Snyder. Plus, as a Steelers fan, I don't see 8 owners better than the Rooneys
How the freak is Daniel Snyder in the top five? That is ridiculous.</p> Arthur Blank is about where I would have placed him (19th). He's done a lot to improve the franchise since he bought the team, but his coaching hirings have been failures and he throws money to free agents with little thought process.</p>
Snyder should be last....his meddlesome ways have paralyzed the Redskins for the better part of a decade already....because of the financial climate in the NFL, an owner really cant be significantly better than other owners, just much worse....
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Luke Skywalker)</div><div class='quotemain'> How the freak is Daniel Snyder in the top five? That is ridiculous.</p> </div></p> Uhhhh. Money Talks. lol. I mean bribery.</p> The media giving the nod to the Pats. What a shock!? Actually, the only shock is I beat Dale to the punch </p>
<font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4" color="#ffff00" style="background-color: #ff0000">Lamar Hunt was the greatest. He will be missed!</font>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (blackadder)</div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Luke Skywalker)</div><div class='quotemain'> How the freak is Daniel Snyder in the top five? That is ridiculous.</p> </div></p> Uhhhh. Money Talks. lol. I mean bribery.</p> The media giving the nod to the Pats. What a shock!? Actually, the only shock is I beat Dale to the punch </p> </div></p> </p> <font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,geneva">I guess that I've grown so used to the bias toward the Patriots that it doesn't even faze me anymore. I guess if buying good press makes Kraft a good owner, then he's right where he should be.</font></font></p>
What?</p> The Patriots have earned their number one spot, far as I'm concerned.. Although lately I have questioned some of their moves. They are usually very solid with their drafts and free agent signings. </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Luke Skywalker)</div><div class='quotemain'> What?</p> The Patriots have earned their number one spot, far as I'm concerned.. Although lately I have questioned some of their moves. They are usually very solid with their drafts and free agent signings. </p></div> <font face="trebuchet ms,geneva" size="2">I'm not saying that the Patriots aren't good, however I do have to wonder how much it cost to have the words "tuck rule" enter the NFL lexicon.</font>
I find it amusing that the only NFL team that is public-owned and actually accountable to fans (read: taxpayers) is listed as #16. How they're not #1 is beyond me. But I am, of course, biased.
I do agree that Daniel Snyder will eventually figure it out, but so far he's figured out almost every way to do it wrong.</p> </p> On the other hand, he's increasingly involved in Hollywood type stuff, so maybe he'll just lose interest at some point and quit spending. I could see that happening too. And then the only thing going for him, that he tries, won't be true either. </p>
So being the second highest grossing franchise in sports behind the Yanks is doing it wrong. Ok.</p> Snyder has backed off of Gibbs, and that's because hre respects him. As long as he has respected management who won't take crap from him, he's pretty hands off. It was just the Norv Turners that he bothered. </p> He's just a younger Jerry Jones. He'll spend money, he's a fan of the team, he's making them money...I'd want him to own my team, you just have to have the staffing under him that's respectable enough to back him off.</p>
I can respect Snyder's drive to spend and win, but he's going about it the wrong way. You've seen the mixed results he's had, if I was him I would let my football people take control.</p> Jerry Jones at least has had more success.</p>
the 1st few years he owned the team, he traded draft picks for vets, a sure sign of a guy that understand the league....he tried to buy championships and you cant do that in this era....to this point, hes been more detremental to that organzation than positive....but, if he means well, and hes smart, then hes learning and should improve as he goes
To be a consistently solid team in the NFL, you pretty much have to make sure you draft smart and don't over spend for free agents.</p>
This ain't fair to Snyder though, because he's backed off the last 3 years. I don't think it's a fair critique anymore, people are still stuck on the Deion Sanders/Bruce Smith era.
<font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="4" color="#ffff00" style="background-color: #ff0000">The Redskins are the "local" team where I live so everyone around me is a fan, Every year it seems like they address their weaknesses. They make the same changes that I would, but it never seems to pan out for them. Maybe they are relying on free agency too much and not developing enough of their own young talent to gain consistency. The moves they make always seem to make sence to me, it just never seems to upgrade the product on the field. I think Snyder is a meddling fool personally, but you can't question the fact that the man wants to win.</font>
Yeah, I live in DC too, it seems like the past 6-7 years they've always been talented but for whatever reason always underachieved. They're like the NFL's Knicks. I agree though, until recently they weren't focused on growing their own talent, just signing/trading for other guys...they've done good recently bringing in Taylor, Landry and Campbell though. All 3 look promising...
Yeah, I live in DC too, it seems like the past 6-7 years they've always been talented but for whatever reason always underachieved. They're like the NFL's Knicks. I agree though, until recently they weren't focused on growing their own talent, just signing/trading for other guys...they've done good recently bringing in Taylor, Landry and Campbell though. All 3 look promising...
