jeffk said:
Pignorant said:
Not to derail the thread, but can you imagine the United States government setting up a wealth fund to buy a pro sports team. Then using tax dollars to buy the best players to ensure they win a championship.
Not successfully.
This. You'd probably have the Republicans and Democrats bickering over what league, what club, whether to invest in a club academy or go buy big players, how much to spend, etc. And they'd all be diametric opposites on all of the issues because politics.
The end result is that we would own Croatian club NK Inter Zapresic and we would manage it into the ground as Chuck Schumer screams "we're getting relegated because we didn't give enough third world players big enough contracts," while Lindsey Graham yells back, "What the hell is relegation?!?!?"