Playthings For $Billionaires...

I sure hope the Dallas Texans win their game today.

What?  You say the Dallas Texans aren't playing?  Wrong-O, oh football breath!  The Hunt Brothers, who cornered nearly all of the silver in America at one time, illegally as it turned out, moved their Dallas Texans football team to Kansas City in 1963.  The Team was subsequently renamed the Kansas City Chiefs.  

Just in time for me, a Kansas City native, to cheer for it.   

Surprised?  Shouldn't be.  This whole NFL thing has been a revolving door since it started.  A plaything for $Billionaires in need of tax losses, who trade teams and move cities like chips on a poker table.  Like pawns on a chessboard.  All while frustrated fans try to cheer on their favorite teams, just as those teams run to other cities for bigger and better arenas.

Think about it: $Millionaires want to own restaurants, $Billionaires want to own football teams.

If you don't think it's a problem, here's a partial list of some of the teams whose owners have bailed on one city in favor of another over the past few years.  Ready?  Here goes...

     -  The Decatur Staleys to Chicago, renamed the Bears, 1922.

     -  The Portsmouth Spartans to Detroit, renamed the Lions, 1934. 

     -  The Boston Redskins to Washington, 1937.*

     -  The Cleveland Rams to Los Angeles, 1946.

     -  The Chicago Cardinals to St. Louis, 1960.

     -  The Los Angeles Chargers to San Diego, 1961.

     -  The Oakland Raiders to Los Angeles, 1982.

     -  The Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis, 1984.

     -  The St. Louis Cardinals to Phoenix, 1988.

     -  The Los Angeles Rams to St. Louis, 1995.**

     -  Los Angeles Raiders BACK to Oakland, 1995.  

     -  Houston Oilers to Memphis as Tennessee Oilers, 1997, then to Nashville, 1998, renamed Tennessee Titans , 1999 (Whew!).

     -  St. Louis Rams BACK to Los Angeles, 2016.

     -  San Diego Chargers BACK to Los Angeles, 2017.

     -  Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas, 2020.

     -  And lastly, we simply cannot forget Art Modell moving the Cleveland Browns under cover of darkness, literally, to become to Baltimore Ravens.  Perhaps the most scandalous move of the whole bunch.  Annnd, since the City of Cleveland owns the name "Browns" and the franchise itself, but Modell owned the Team (confusing, isn't it?), he had to change the team's name.  Cleveland then got its own expansion franchise, so there's a Cleveland Browns...once again.  All's well in Football Land.

Except you need a program.   

*    Ooopsie!  Can't name a football team after our fierce, stalwart, strong-willed, never-say-die native Americans anymore, now can we?  Nooooo!  Might piss off some "Progressive" puke somewhere.  So the Team just had to be named the Doormats.  Or something...

*    Ex-line dancer and professional golden-haired floozy Georgia Frontierri had to first drown her husband Art Rosenbloom, the Rams' owner, in the surf at Malibu (she did), before she could take $Millions and bail on Los Angeles for St. Louis.  Before it was moved back again after her right-hand man stole it from her.  Yeah...