Get Real

Many if not most sportswriters are sloths with typing skills.  That was obvious when a columnist in the Sunday Tribune sports’ section decided it was time to explore the idea of a second team for the third largest football market in the NFL.  He apparently thinks the Jacksonville Jaguars would be a perfect fit for the Windy City.

Why?  Well their owner went to school at the U of I Champaign-Urbana.  Oh, and everything is so unsettled now what with the Rams moving and maybe the Chargers and/or the Raiders, so why not the Jaguars, too?  But who’s going to build this fantasy stadium?  Why, the Jaguars’ owner, of course, because he’s a billionaire.  And did he get that way by putting up his own money or other people’s?  So much for following the who/what/when/where/why tenets of good journalism.

The columnist thinks that the Rams are going to pony up nearly $1.9 billion to fund a new entertainment district with stadium in the LA suburb of Ingleside.  And I am the walrus.  But if I’m not, and all this moving around can be done without involving public funds, then go at it, I say.  But just remember this, which our sloth columnist found too much of a bother to find out—the Jaguars presently play in a municipally-owned facility.  If you’ll pardon my metaphor, why would they want to pay for a billion-dollar cow when they can get the milk for free, if not in Jacksonville then someplace else?