Worst Owners in Sports (past and present)

The Limbaugh thread made me think of some of the ethically-challenged and morally bankrupt people that actually did get their mitts on a franchise. Figure the owners who just run crappy franchises is pretty evident.

Here's five off the top of my head.

Bruce McNall - financed buying the LA Kings by smuggling coins.
Eddie DeBartolo - the guy was a great owner for the team on the field - but just not the most upstanding citizen, according to at least one waitress.
George Steinbrenner - convicted of illegal contributions to Nixon
Leonard Tose - Yeah, no problem with an NFL owner piling up $20 million in gambling debts
Rick Hendrick - Convicted of mail fraud for bribing Honda to give him more cars than other dealers.

 

While I think the Pirates are heading in the right direction, I'd have to put Bob Nutting up there.

But Kevin McClatchy, even though he helped keep the team in Pittsburgh, is more responsible for the team's string of losing.

 

Marge Schott. Complaining about the delay when an umpire dies on Opening Day. Also for being a racist hosebag.

Tom Werner with the late 80s-early 90s Padres. Total douchebag who wrecked the franchise for years.

Art Modell ... Self-explanatory.

 

Bob Irsay. How do you move the Baltimore Colts?

 

You back up the moving vans in the middle of the night, of course ...

 

Hugh Culverhouse. Need I say more?

 

George Preston Marshall .... worst racist owner ever.

And let's come out and say it: the DeBartolos had mob ties. Also, Carmen Policy.

And proving that stupidity can be a crime against humanity: Dan Fucking Snyder. I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.

 

Great article on the scumbag Irsay:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1065650/1/index.htm

A drunk who denied his own Jewish heritage, alienated nearly everyone he worked with, ran a storied franchise into the ground and then proceeded to relocate the team in the middle of the night.

 

Ted Stepien

Andrew Freedman

http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Andrew_Freedman

 

Am I really the first to bring up Al Davis?

 

Great call on Marshall. It took federal action to integrate the Redskins.

And Snyder is the biggest scumbucket in the league right now.