What do you do in the offseason if you are the Vikings?

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

You're talking like all owners care about football. More than half of them care more about money. Bring mediocre still sells tickets and doesn't take as much effort.

Eh - I think MOST owners care more about football than you give them credit for.

It's hubris and pride more than anything. These guys are among a handful of billionaires in the nations ultimate zero-sum competition. They don't want to go to the owners meetings with other billionaires and have to acknowledge that their team sucks.

It's not necessarily that they care about football specifically, it's that they care about supremacy. Arrogance and pride.

I mean yeah, football makes a lot of money, but so do land investment trusts. But they don't get to be on TV by plowing billions into Blackrock.

I think the guys who care more about money than winning are the outliers. I mean look at Lamar -- did you think he didn't care about winning? I don't -- I think he BADLY wanted to win the trophy with his name on it. He just wasn't quite sure how. And he trusted the wrong people (person -- Carl Peterson). But on its face, 'being mediocre and selling tickets' is what the Chiefs did best through the 90s.

I don't think that's because he cared more about money than winning.