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

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

There’s a difference between wanting to win for ego vs having actual skin in the game. That’s the problem. The reason most of these owners pump money into their team is because of a salary floor. Without it, they wouldn’t. We see in other sports way way too many owners who won’t spend money they have into their team. I think it’s a matter of… if we’re required to spend money anyway, might as well try to win.

When you fail in an investment you lose your ass. When you fail in the nfl, you still make a shitload of money… it’s just less than your earnings potential. So the incentive is really different. I would agree it’s not just purely money driven. You have notorious cheapskates like mike brown and the mccaskeys. You also have guys like Dan Snyder and irsay where there is an utter lack of accountability. If you’re talking other sports like mlb… there are way more owners where money is more important than winning.

Is there?

If anything, wanting to win for ego is where you find the owners MOST aggressive in pursuit of winning.

If anything, I WANT my owners ego to be driving him. That's how you get some damn lunatic like Cohen torching money to get Juan Soto.

And that's mostly my point - MOST owners (again, not all) aren't driven by profit motive or greed. They're driven by ego.

And as sports fans, that's a good thing. We should want our owners writing checks the ledgers can't cash. We should want them underwriting losses on the books to pursue wins on the field.

More do than don't, IMO.