Marc Ganis Quotes (44 Quotes)

This is a testament to Dan Snyder's ability to run and manage an entertainment-based business, ... His success with the Redskins has been nothing short of phenomenal. It shows he knew what he was doing when he paid a then-record 800 million for this franchise.

I'd be surprised if he did. Reggie Bush has the potential to become the most significant endorser in the universe of football players. But top-flight basketball players as a general rule are more sought-after.

He is one of the greatest labor leaders around. The players are almost 60 partners without putting up any capital at all. Every union should have it so good.

Because of the clock, the three-quarters of us who live in eastern and central time zone don't get to see those clubs as much, don't get to see the highlights on Sports Center. For a nightly league that is largely dependent on national television revenue,

Fox just had to overpay on a rights fee basis for the Celtics games in order to keep the lights on the Boston market, ... So they're saving a lot of money owning the Dodgers. If the Dodgers' broadcast rights were up for public bid right now, they could go to an astronomical sum, and that would mean either a loss of programming for Fox or far greater costs.

Whether it is right or wrong, it is the way our celebrity-driven culture is. When people see major celebrities coming out to an event, they feel they should be there as well.

It will be vitally important for people to watch, however widely they are dispersed. It will help them come together, even though they're doing it electronically.

Now that you have a new owner and effectively a whole new philosophy behind the team, this could be a way to adopt a new identity.

The key is to get on basic. We'll see a dramatic rise in the number of homes that the NFL Network reaches.

That level of exposure adds up to more legitimacy. It can make some real sense if there is some strategy behind it.

This would be the first example of a stadium being developed from the outset for two N.F.L. teams, ... The cost of these buildings has skyrocketed to such a degree that it makes far more economic sense to share the debt service and the revenues. The net revenues for the two teams are likely to be significantly better than if they each built their own stadium.

This is a really smart move. The NFL Network will get many more subscribers and is going to be available to many more households. That will allow the NFL Network to be viewed by tens of millions more people regularly.

The NFL is fortunate to be in a position where they can put their games on almost any delivering system and know fans will seek them out. It's a unique situation. There is no other programming concept in the United States that can say that.

I think what Bank of America's suffering from is a surplus of riches. They have so many ways of putting themselves in front of the sports-minded public on a year-round basis.

It is economically if not physically obsolete. When you have a special event like Sugar Bowl or Super Bowl, people care less about how far away the field is or a bathroom in the luxury box. But for annual ticket buyers, it's a big deal to them.

Fans really want to feel intimate with the action. This is part of what has made the NBA so successful. You can almost smell the sweat.

In the short term, if they put together a comprehensive marketing campaign around the new name, they could see the sale of merchandise with the new name soar, ... But there are risks for how they handle this. They could also come across as either being sensitive to these issues, or caving in. You don't know which way it will play out.

It's not just buying ad time it's not just buying hospitality. It's combining the whole thing in a way to sell more beer.

I say that from some personal knowledge and from the historical perspective of nothing happening in South Florida to get a stadium deal done.

The Panthers have matured as a franchise, and they are benefiting from a continuous effort to upgrade their operations. Even when they had lean years on the field, the Panthers took care of their fans and sponsors. That's paying off.

Winning is the great deodorant. Even if this is a marketing mistake, and I'm not saying it is, winning goes a long way to fixing it.

The primary reason you're seeing more self funding is that the easy deals with the local governments are pretty much done. We don't have local government budget surpluses any more. It takes more creative financing.

They took a chance to take a company owned by Comcast. That might end up being a very good thing ... Comcast can promote it -- on its own cable systems -- on ESPN, on Fox Sports Net. Let's see if they do so. That'll say how committed they are.

One reason local governments in the past had been willing to pay was to prevent some other government luring a team away. With the expansion and relocation that has occurred, ... there are fewer markets that are hungry for -- and can afford -- a professional sports franchise.

When was the last time somebody cheered for T-bill interest rates But you cheer when your team is on the court, so there is a lot to be said for the psychic value of owning a sports team.

Time Warner will need to take the NFL Network on. Their subscribers will demand it. Plus, Time Warner needs the NFL Network more than some channel about gardening or something like that.

When you're adding those extra 5,000 seats, you have to build more ramps, more bathrooms, more plumbing, and it gets very expensive to build those extra seats. The number of times you sell the last 4,000 to 5,000 seats and the fact that they're going to be the less expensive seats, does not offset the cost of operating a larger facility.

This actually puts hockey on more news pages, not necessarily in the way you want it, but it still is a cover story. Wayne Gretzky and his beautiful wife are good art, and that always attracts attention.

They have concluded they can't compete directly with the Yankees and Red Sox for resources (i.e. expensive players). But they realized there are ways to compete with the other middle-of-the-pack teams to make it to the World Series and win it.

Las Vegas is the Holy Grail. There are people who believe that an NFL team in Las Vegas would be the most profitable franchise in sports.

One of the greatest complaints about the cable industry is that they use the fact that they control the pipe to control what gets on. There are a lot of people who feel that's unfair.

It's not the people, ... It's not the individuals who show up at the game and buy the tickets. The people are great. It's the business, or lack of, that's the primary factor. For whatever reason, the area simply does not have many strong and large businesses.

There is no debate of two facts that Major League Baseball wants to be in D. C., and there are at least three places where the Nationals can be relocated. But no one should be thinking about the Nationals right now because it is Washington's team.

Sometimes deadlines help and sometimes they don't make much of a difference. They rarely hurt, unless they are arbitrary or excessively short. But if you are working in good faith and the deadlines can be extended if progress is being made, they work well.

If the team is competitive, the Los Angeles fans will pay top dollar, make going to the games an event, ... But they won't support a loser. There are too many alternative activities can be conducted in the fall. You can go to beach. You can't do that in Chicago.

Ownership of the Washington Redskins provides perhaps the most visible platform from which to try and lobby Congress, pass legislation, speak with lobbyists and interact with the media in the nation's capital. There's a lot of value associated with that.

They have excelled because they are perceived as delivering a high level of service, ... Even in the lean years -- before they reached the Super Bowl -- the Panthers made upgrades.

Once you announce you're moving the team, you give up your key piece of leverage. When they moved, a new stadium deal was expected to take a matter of months. It took eight years.

The Superdome has been one of the greatest sports facility investment a community has ever made, ... But it would be significantly diminished if the Saints left.

That myth has been broken long ago, ... Everyone who follows the Olympics knows commercialism and corporate sponsorship is as much a part of the Olympics at this point as athletic competition. It is simply aesthetics, it is simply a veneer.

The two recent baseball stadium naming rights deals were worth a little more than 3 million a year. A few years ago it was 5 million-to-6 million. I do see it (the market) going back up, but I think it's going to take time, and we're not going to get back in skyrocketing mode. We had stupid money chasing some of the deals that's not coming back.

People discovered that less was actually more.

They'll be able to build the NFL Network into something far more significant. On the 357 days when games are not being carried, NFL programming will be going into people's homes.

The only time you have the leverage to get political bodies and financing to come together is before the team comes, not after it comes, ... You don't relocate a team unless you know everything is finished. The only team that didn't do that is the NFL Arizona Cardinals, and they still don't have a new stadium 15 years later.