Bucs For Sale?
October 29th, 2009
Now Joe is not one to quote former Buccaneer Dan Sileo, the morning drive time host on 620 WDAE-AM.
Sorry Dan, your show may be good for a lot of laughs and solid Lightning and Otis Smith interviews, but you’re not one the journalism world would call a “reliable source.”
But Jack Harris and Tedd Webb, the longtime hosts of AM Tampa Bay on 970 WFLA-AM are another story. They are reliable. Harris is a broadcasting icon in the Bay area and is part of the Buccaneers Radio Network. He’s not one for rumormongering.
So it’s noteworthy that on the AM Tampa Bay Web site, Harris and Webb referenced Sileo’s comments this morning that there is speculation the Bucs are for sale because of their massive losses in the whole Bernie Madoff mess.
Sileo rambled about the Bucs and Madoff today.
And Harris and Webb promise more information tomorrow.
**7:13am Dan Sileo ( 620 WDAE sports talk host )
Talked about the Tampa bay Buccaneers possibly being for sale ?
According to a source, the Bucs are leveraged to the hilt.
They have a note due in January 2010. If they don’t make it.
They will have to sell the team. For more information
Liten tomorrow to AMTB.
Here come the DeBartolo rumors all over again. Steinbrenner? Limbaugh?
October 29th, 2009 at 10:50 am
DeBartolo! He’ll field a winner.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Hey Rush – If you purchase the Bucs you won’t have to worry about them competeing with your Steelers and you can jump on Southwest Sunday morning to see the game!
What a perfect fit!
October 29th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Rush is an idiot.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:15 am
DeBartolo has always been a guy who wants a winner and wouldn’t he love to stick it to his ungrateful sister and brother in law who screwed him out of the 49ers. He would own the team just to go to SF and beat them.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Although it may or may not true. It is the best news I’ve had all week!!
October 29th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Real mature statement Jeff. Have you ever listened to Rush or are you just parroting all the crap you hear?
October 29th, 2009 at 11:48 am
This story is all over the intertubes now so there must be some truth to the rumor.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
I wouldn’t mind Debartalo as the owner. I don’t think he will be cheap with the team. He always spent a lot of money with the 49ers. But would the NFL let him back in? That would be the question.
No chance on Steinbrenner because he owns a team in a different sport. They don’t allow that. Even if they did relax it, they would stop Steinbrenner because his team is not in this market. With what Steinbrenner has, that would probably mean that we would have deal with the son. No thanks.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Hey Louie Jeff is just one of those MSNBC parrots who posts made up stuff.
While Debartalo has the prior experience there are 2 questions to ask:
1. Does Debartalo WANT to return to the NFL and most importantly
2. Does Debartalo have the financing in place to make a bid?
We want Rush Limbaugh to own the Bucs. In fact I’ll bet Rush runs out and hires Donavan McNabb as the new QB – until Freeman is ready of course.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
How unfair of Joe to treat Dan this way, while treating that the afternoon clown Douche-mig’s word as law. What Sileo did, was research SEC filings around the Bernie Madoff case to prove his point.
I think DeBartolo could lead a nice investment group, and pull this off. mybe bring Derrick Brooks in as a paartner on this also, just like their school?
October 29th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
I say that Tampa Bay buys the Bucs, like Green Bay owns the Packers. Let everyone buy a piece, that way we all own it. We can vote, like stockholders, on the GM and Coach, and get this franchise moving again. To tell you the truth I dont think we could do any worse. What do you say Joe, you on board?
October 29th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Of course the Bucs are for sale and have been, but, their value has decreased so tremendously over the last two years of economic woe I’m pretty sure the Glazier’s are not going to take a low bid offer (they can’t afford it what with the Madoff $ loss and Man U).
October 29th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Forbes (Jan 2009) valued the Bucs at $1.1 billion probably about the 14th or 15th most valuable sports franchise in the world (Glazier’s Man U being #1) but in this economy whose going to pay $1.1 Billion for the Bucs (can those empty seats be refilled very fast in this economy?)
October 29th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
For those of you who don’t google all that well… http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/30/football-values-09_Tampa-Bay-Buccaneers_306470.html
October 29th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Joe, better head back to the Buccaneers website. The Glazers have released a statement addressing these reports. It’s quite vague and good natured…
October 29th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Amen, BucFan South Tampa. Amen. That would be, in my humble opinion, the best of all possible scenarios.