Chapter 1: What is the Home Team Act and why is it significant?
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Chapter 2: Who are the lawmakers behind the Home Team Act?
Imagine what those billions of dollars could do building public parks, youth sports leagues, fields, courts for our kids. Nothing in this bill would stop cities or states from making good deals with teams where it might make sense, but our bill will make sure that cities and states are not negotiating with a gun to their head. It's time for Congress to step up to the plate. Our bill is simple.
One year before an owner can ever relocate a team, they must announce it. Then the community has a chance to buy that team at its fair market value, including through the kind of community ownership model that has kept the Green Bay Packers in NFL's smallest market for over 100 years. If no one wants to buy the team and keep it in the home city, then the owner could move it.
But it's a simple idea. Before you move a team away from the fans who have been rooting for it their whole life, you have to give them a chance to buy it and keep it. Billionaire owners will be just fine under our bill, but fans and taxpayers will finally get a fair deal.
Okay, here's the thing. Greg Kassar is not in his home district of San Antonio. He's now in Austin. He moved. And if he bought property, then he got to enjoy the rights that were given to him as a property owner, which is what the Bears wanted to do.
When they decided they wanted to move, they bought land and they have a right as the owners of that property to see with it what they are allowed within planning and zoning laws to see fit. And the Frost Bank Center, which is where the Spurs now play, is still very much in San Antonio. That's the address. San Antonio.
I understand where they're coming from. I understand why people might be behind this.
Right message, wrong messenger. To the comment from Joel Embiid in the post regarding O'Neal Cruz.
So normally I would agree with the whole right message, wrong messenger thing. Except at the end of the day... The day's got to end. And so I say that because I don't care sometimes if it's the wrong messenger. If it's the right message, I can take that out like a kid playing Operation with the tweezers and not getting the shock.
I'll just take what I need to make this happen because I don't think on its face this is a bad idea.
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Chapter 3: What would the Home Team Act require from team owners?
But that would give the people a chance to actually have their own say.
And we also know how that would go.
That would be true democracy as opposed to representative democracy. And then they wouldn't be talking about this anyway because they'd be giving power to the people, which is what we should be doing.
We live in a constitutional republic. That is the bottom line.
I don't even know that it's that anymore. I just know that those two in particular, like to Representative Kassar, the University of Texas isn't going anywhere. And to Bernie Sanders, who represents Vermont, I don't see any pro teams there as well.
The reason I bring up the constitutional republic is eventually the people representing you have to do their jobs. And if they're not doing their jobs, well, you kind of end up with what we are in 2026 as a country.
Which is why I think it's hilarious. Like, if you really wanted to do this bill right, then you would just make sure that everybody gets a chance to vote. And then if you force the issue to a ballot in, say, Indiana, like for the Bears, or in, say, Kansas, like for the Chiefs, would you get the same outcome? And then there's a discussion to be had. But what do I know?
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