Topic: Is LeBron James going to be the next Art Modell?

[ancients]

And they have to make a living, let them go when they need to. It is a profession.

[belushi]

Lebron James turned down the chance to play basketball at Ohio State....for that reason alone, may he rot in hell.....

[gunslinger]

Lebron James turned down the chance to play basketball at Ohio State....for that reason alone, may he rot in hell.....

Even worse, he once donned a Dallas Cowboy hat. A sin nearly as bad as wearing the Michigan logo.

[phred]

     
   Apparently, another "sad, but that's life" aspect
   of this is that the business/activity/hype surrounding
   James brought in about $ 46 million (restaurants, etc.)
   to Cleveland annually. 

   
   

[Steve.Deserved.Better]

May he take over the job of wearing Joe Namath's panty hose....

[phred]

Lebron James turned down the chance to play basketball at Ohio State....for that reason alone, may he rot in hell.....

Even worse, he once donned a Dallas Cowboy hat. A sin nearly as bad as wearing the Michigan logo.

     Well.  That right there explains why he couldn't
     deliver the national championship in any of these
     past seven years.  Yes, it does. 

     If he would have had the Buckeye experience,
     how different and better it all would have been
     for him.


 

[phred]

May he take over the job of wearing Joe Namath's panty hose....

      I remember those legs.... yeuck!   

[gunslinger]

Apparently, another "sad, but that's life" aspect
   of this is that the business/activity/hype surrounding
   James brought in about $ 46 million (restaurants, etc.)
   to Cleveland annually.

Unfortunately many Clevelanders felt Lebron was different.  For the first time since Bernie Kosar they had a hometown boy who actually cared about Ohio, and wanted to play here. Turns out he was nothing more than another "me first" athlete, who cared only about himself. Like I said, I'm in the minority, but I say "good riddance."

Yes, he every right to leave and sign for whomever he wanted, but just once it would be nice to see an athlete do the right thing.

[gunslinger]

Remember a drunken Joe Namath hitting on Andrea Kramer?

[phred]

Apparently, another "sad, but that's life" aspect
   of this is that the business/activity/hype surrounding
   James brought in about $ 46 million (restaurants, etc.)
   to Cleveland annually.

Unfortunately many Clevelanders felt Lebron was different.  For the first time since Bernie Kosar they had a hometown boy who actually cared about Ohio, and wanted to play here. Turns out he was nothing more than another "me first" athlete, who cared only about himself. Like I said, I'm in the minority, but I say "good riddance."

Yes, he every right to leave and sign for whomever he wanted, but just once it would be nice to see an athlete do the right thing.

     This is exactly how the men here feel about it.
     And 'quitter' comes into the comments. 

     You have identified the difficult part in all of this -
     we thought we had someone here - one of our own -

     when, in truth, we now know he was no different
     than all the rest who were just passing by.

[ancients]

Why do I not hear this talk of someone leaving General Motors? They are destroying Detroit. There is no difference.

[ancients]

Oh yea, Media.

[seabiscuit]

    I do feel badly for the Cleveland fans, but that's it.
    (The men here are pissed.)

    I guess I have become so accustomed to losing the
    bright and talented on our OSU basketball team to the
    pro's -
    and Matta just moves on. 

    Sometimes, Matta has the talented youngin' shaped
    up so skillfully during the first year at OSU that the
    kid moves on to the pro's at the moment the rules
    for that are met.  It's disappointing, but that's it.


 

Yes, I have a 20 yr old son that is completely upset (pissed almost doesn't cover it!) about LeBron leaving.

Actually, had LeBron realized how this was going to play itself out, he would have been better to have played somewhere else first, won & lost there and then eventually "come home" to finish out his career.  Let this be a lesson to those budding stars.  Whatever you do, DON'T get on your home state team until you are about ready to retire.  That way, you can win your championship and still be loved back home. 

[harper]

Who really thought he would stay?
It's Cleveland, and Cleveland in the winter.
compared to anywhere else and more $$$$$$.
 

I do think it was pretty rotten how long the PR people kept the process going, that
had to be pure torture for the hopeful true believers...
 

[seabiscuit]

Who really thought he would stay?
It's Cleveland, and Cleveland in the winter.
compared to anywhere else and more $$$$$$.
 

I do think it was pretty rotten how long the PR people kept the process going, that
had to be pure torture for the hopeful true believers...
 

Yeah, I think the hype made the sting of his leaving go much deeper.