Pottsville no longer has an NFL team, therefore Green Bay should not have one either
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 03:01PM 
The Pottsville Maroons hung up their cleats in 1928, ending a storied four-year run in the NFL. Pottsville was just about the size of Green Bay back then, but those coal crackers knew the NFL would never amount to much, so the franchise moved to Boston. But if Pottsvile's stint on the front lines of pro football was a relic of the Roaring Twenties, what is Green Bay doing in the big leagues? Should not the ball club be condemned under eminent domain and sold off to the highest bidder (Los Angeles) so grade school kids will still have a teacher who is getting paid?
Tom Scocca sucks it up in Slate:
Walker could start by selling the Green Bay Packers. Decades after Akron and Pottsville and Kenosha dropped out of the football business, Green Bay is still, somehow, in possession of an NFL team. It makes no sense. An outdated system of socialized public ownership has enabled an obscure small city to occupy a place in pro sports that by all economic logic should go to a wealthy metropolis.
The average estimated value of an NFL team is already more than $1 billion, but the sale of the Packers should be worth far, far more than that. They are the league's reigning champion, with a stellar young quarterback. If the team were to be condemned and put on the open market, it would be the object of a bidding war, with would-be buyers unrestricted by location. The sales price might even clear the $1.8 billion estimated value of the Dallas Cowboys—eliminating more than half of Wisconsin's budget shortfall instantly.
A state that can't afford to pay schoolteachers certainly can't afford to sit on that kind of unrealized value. It makes no sense to keep professional football players, members of an immense entertainment conglomerate, riding around on bicycles in the middle of nowhere. Wisconsin is not in the luxury business anymore. Los Angeles is eager to have an NFL team, and the NFL is eager to put one there.
What are those cheeseheads waiting for? Oh...Los Angeles is broke, too.
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