I wasn't talking about the dome, but about how he conducts himself sometimes when it comes to "business". He's been sued a few times that's well known and in fact the deal for the land he bought was slimy on his part, it lacked ethics. Also very slimy the way he dealt with SKahn (and I was vocal about that).
He will find a way to slip out of the deal to host the Chargers, then he will slip out of the deal to let the Raiders in if the Chargers say "no thanks".
It's how he often operates, it's not a secret that he will play dirty if he wants to and if it may serve him well.
There are reasons he isn't popular among his peers. They voted to take his money because they are greedy fuckers, but they know what he is too.
Seriously Les? The information I have - and my dad is a real estate broker that only deals in large ranches throughout the west - is that Stan was the only one of the prospective buyers that not only agreed to keep the Waggoner Ranch whole but would keep it in production as farming and cattle ranching. Unless you can find something that says different, everything I have read and heard says that he actually essentially saved one of the most famous ranches in all of the West and that the other offers were from people that needed to break up the Ranch in order to make their deals work. He has done the same in his other large Ag. purchases. He has already improved ranching production on that large Montana ranch he bought a couple years ago.
Name one even Millionaire that hasn't been sued. Hell, I had to buy out my partner and it turned nasty. The only reason it didn't end up in court was because the guy knew he didn't have a leg to stand on and he wouldn't gain enough in a suit.
The deal with Kahn? Are you telling me that if you had a right of first refusal, you would not wait until not only an offer came in but was sure to be able to close before excercising that right? That would be against anything anyone else with that option would do. That is just simple and smart. You don't exercise that right until you know the deal will can absolutely go down without falling through. I realize Bernie was making a big stink about it but Bernie is a moron and all you have to do is look at the piece he wrote telling LA fans to stop whining when the Rams moved to the Lou.
I really have to wonder which side is trying harder to "slip out of" the deal on being the second team. Looks to me like both Spanos and Davis are trying harder now than ever before to get deals done in their home cities. They lost the battle. And frankly, Spanos and Davis' pop were/are the sleaziest of A-holes. Go ahead and look up how many times Weird Al and Alex Spanos were sued. I'm guessing Mark and Dean may have as well but not sure as they pretty much got handed everything and haven't added to it.
Spanos and Davis are liked by the old guard because they know they can bend them over and they will lube up to take it. Obvioulsly the NFL voted for money. I'm not sure anyone doubts that. And if the confidence in Spanos and Davis was even close, they would have voted for Carson instead. It wasn't, so they sided with the guy they knew wouldn't fail in the LA market - unlike the smarter Davis already did several years ago.
that goes with that...again. :argue:
