Most destructive team owners

[Slacker]

Hey, don't forget Bobby Lowder, the former owner of Auburn University.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Melvin Swig killed NHL hockey in Cleveland and couldn't pay his team.

Did I get that correct?

The Cleveland Barons' NHL Existence Was A Short And Spectacular Disaster

 

[dixiehack]

Hey, don't forget Bobby Lowder, the former owner of Auburn University.

Unfortunately he merely dented it.

Don't forget the Cleveland Barons were already in trouble from their time as the California Seals, which brings us back to Charley O.

 

[HanSenSE]

Unfortunately he merely dented it.

Don't forget the Cleveland Barons were already in trouble from their time as the California Seals, which brings us back to Charley O.

IIRC from my youth, both the Seals and the Warriors in the late 60s and early 70s were hoping for an arena in San Francisco. The Warriors basically had three home courts - Oakland Coliseum Arena, San Francisco Civic Center and the Cow Palace - before settling down in Oakland.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Seven pages and just now are we getting to a guy who has to be top five: George Shinn.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Seven pages before we get to the worst owner in any sport

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Seven pages and just now are we getting to a guy who has to be top five: George Shinn.

I mean, how many in his position were caught having, um, relations ... with one of the cheerleaders? Not to mention getting caught trying to fabricate bad attendance numbers to get permission to move the franchise elsewhere?

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

JD Stacy
Bobby Ginn
Tim Beverley

 

[Slacker]

I mean, how many in his position were caught
having, um, relations ... with one of the cheerleaders?

 

[Shelbyville Manhattan]

Over six pages in, and not one mention of Buccaneers owner Hugh Culverhouse, who went cheap on his NFL team because he needed the cash to fund the other tentacles of his over-leveraged business empire.

 

[wicked]

JD Stacy
Bobby Ginn
Tim Beverley

Beverley didn't destroy anything. Darrell Waltrip did that quite well.

 

[outofplace]

Over six pages in, and not one mention of Buccaneers owner Hugh Culverhouse, who went cheap on his NFL team because he needed the cash to fund the other tentacles of his over-leveraged business empire.

Is a guy who doesn't have the money like Culverhouse as bad as a greedy biscuit like Nutting, who has plenty, but still forces his team to pinch every penny?