Friday, July 28, 2006

Cleveland Browns owner ends Aston Villa bid - an open letter

Dear Cleveland Browns owner Randy Lerner,

I just read that you have called off your bid to purchase English Premier League's Aston Villa. I know you had been looking at buying the team for about US$100 million, but decided to kill the deal after meeting with club chairman Doug Ellis.

Rumor has it that Ellis refused to meet with you alone and insisted that he would remain in charge after the sale. Some people, just so pushy.

So no soccer club for you, but it doesn't have to be that way.

You could take the $100 million and invest it in a MLS club. Yes, the MLS might not have the old world charm that is Aston Villa, but it also will not be making big demands. I know, ever since Tampa Bay Buccaneers' owner Malcolm Glazer bought Manchester United, it has become very fashionable to own a piece of the EPL, but why spend $100 million to become a medium size fish in England when you could become a big fish in the US?

Think about it, with $100 million you could make a move for MLS's best team, DC United. If buying the best is not what you are looking for, you could use the money to create your own dynasty (say in Cleveland) by purchasing an expansion club.

It's true, the glamour is not yet there for the MLS, but with a little time and a some more investors like you, the MLS will become something better then Aston Villa.

Hope your dawg pound is doing fine,
Mike H

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not with that attitude it won't...

3:52 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Some people are just dicks. I think, no scratch that, I know that one day the MLS and the US MNT will show those snobs in Europe what they are made of. Yes soccer is not as popular here as it is in Europe but it is the American way to simply kick-ass. The Europeans are so happy that they have one thing on America that they have become huge A-holes about it. That's okay. We didn't become the most powerful country in the world by caring what those sissies over in Europe thought.

3:58 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

to the american pr1ck, Arerica got to where they are today by bullying all the other country's and taking their oil
up the villa

6:54 AM  
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