Public ownership of sports teams considered by Newt Gingrich

Guy Baldwin
   Newt Gingrich tweeted the other day that the answer to Clippers ownership is to sell it to the people of Los Angles. I am very pleasantly  surprised to see this right-winger suggest this idea whose time has come in terms of sports franchise ownership. Private ownership of teams has done little for the fans except to price many out of any opportunities to enjoying games. A fan based sports ownership idea has been banted out over the years and in the case of Washngton Redskins organization a debate and eventual name change would of occurred by now.

Newt Gingrich discovering socialism is pretty amazing and maybe he can look at the pharmaceutical and oil industries instead of just sports. he Green Bay Packers are owned by shareholders and is basically the only public ally owned professional sports team. One of the reasons these billionaires all jump to sports ownership though is that they can corporately agree and enforce a rise in the value of their franchise thanks to steady stream if corporate advertising television syndicate monopolies. I doubt that the increase spending and madness would continue from these corporate pricks if they new one of their own were not running the show and ..gasp..actual people were able to own a slice of their favorite teams. I would begin slow and start with the Cleveland Browns. Just take that team for their owner and let the dog pound run things, although the current ownership is spending much money to turn that disaster of a football organization around. Think Progress has the best story about Newts ideas and how a public franchise rots organization can be best run and I recommend their story if you want more interest in something old Guy Baldwin has been calling for years. It is interesting that is took old scumbag Donald Sterling to get this career politician and obviously sports fan Newt Gingrich to make an interesting comment and suggest public ownership of the LA Lippers. I say public ownership for them Cleveland Browns and then eventually more of the classic organizations like it.