Day One of my Glorious Plan
I have a scheme! You can help.
It is my dream to own a professional sports team. Unfortunately I have only the tiniest fraction of the required several hundred million dollars necessary to obtain such a team.
Let's place the price of a franchise at $500 million. Baseball teams might go for this in mid-level markets. NFL teams are more expensive. The Rams are valued at $900 million despite being pretty crummy (I guess they have a nice stadium). So, I don't know that $500 million is enough, but let's go with it.
I will contribute the most to this endeavor, and by extension, will be the principal owner. Let's say I can come up with $10,000. I need 499,990,000 more dollars.
OR, a better way to say it, I need 499,990 people to give me $1000. Or 4,999,900 people to give me $100. Or somewhere in between. All of these people get votes and ownership stakes. Say, at the Gold level contribution of $1,000 you get a proportionally higher level of votes and profits, season tickets or DirectTV package, and a jersey. At the Beige level of $100 you get a pennant (in team colors!). Various levels in between.
This can work! You're telling me there aren't 500,000 disenfranchised sports fans with a little money to give in exchange for such glorious benefits? I submit that it would further be a great American story to have a widely-owned public franchise. You're going to root for a corporately-owned team against them? You're going to root for some rich dude's plaything team? That's rooting against America.
Let me know if you want in.
It is my dream to own a professional sports team. Unfortunately I have only the tiniest fraction of the required several hundred million dollars necessary to obtain such a team.
Let's place the price of a franchise at $500 million. Baseball teams might go for this in mid-level markets. NFL teams are more expensive. The Rams are valued at $900 million despite being pretty crummy (I guess they have a nice stadium). So, I don't know that $500 million is enough, but let's go with it.
I will contribute the most to this endeavor, and by extension, will be the principal owner. Let's say I can come up with $10,000. I need 499,990,000 more dollars.
OR, a better way to say it, I need 499,990 people to give me $1000. Or 4,999,900 people to give me $100. Or somewhere in between. All of these people get votes and ownership stakes. Say, at the Gold level contribution of $1,000 you get a proportionally higher level of votes and profits, season tickets or DirectTV package, and a jersey. At the Beige level of $100 you get a pennant (in team colors!). Various levels in between.
This can work! You're telling me there aren't 500,000 disenfranchised sports fans with a little money to give in exchange for such glorious benefits? I submit that it would further be a great American story to have a widely-owned public franchise. You're going to root for a corporately-owned team against them? You're going to root for some rich dude's plaything team? That's rooting against America.
Let me know if you want in.