it's like the NFL rule that prevents any team besides the Packers from being community-owned. Jim Devine <<<<<>>>>>
above rule established in 1960, year that pete rozelle became league commissioner (he was commish for about 3 decades), generally credited with turning pro football into big tv bucks game that it became...
believe it was former cleveland browns owner - later baltimore ravens owner after he moved browns to latter city - art modell who, in talking about league policy requiring all that tv money be shared equally among all owners, said 'we're [the owners] capitalists who vote socialist'... mh (who must be over 3 post daily max today but doesn't care)