Home Team Act could prevent teams like Bears from moving
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What is the Home Team Act and why is it significant?
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This is Rahimi Harrison Brody on 104.3 The Score. I just need you to know, somebody's always creeping and crawling and balling in the mix. Just in case. Just in case you needed to know.
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I did not expect that individual or individuals to be Bernie Sanders and Greg Kassar, the rep from Texas, specifically Austin, regarding the Bears stadium. What's happening here? Why are Bernie Sanders, a senator from Vermont, and Greg Kassar, a Democratic representative out of Austin, a place that has a college that is important in the University of Texas that isn't going anywhere, putting together a bill that they casually called the Keep the Bears in Chicago bill? That's pretty much the colloquialism they used. Also... I'm pretty sure the federal government has other priorities to look into right now.
Layla's the old, we can walk, talk, and chew gum at the same time.
No, they can't. They can't do any of those things at the same time.
I'm just telling you what they would say.
Fill your tank with gas and go to an airport and tell me how those things go. Sanders and Kassar jointly announced the Home Team Act. That is what they're calling this. In a press conference, the proposed federal bill, if passed, would require team ownership to provide a year of notice before moving a team to a new location, which the Bears have done, by the way. If the team would move across state lines or to a new metropolitan area. So don't listen to us try to make it make sense. Here's what they had to say.
Senator Sanders, beloved Brooklyn Dodgers. The Home Team Act would have saved the Seattle Supersonics. The Home Team Act would have saved the Houston Oilers. The Home Team Act would have kept the A's and the Raiders in Oakland. The Home Team Act would make sure that the Spurs... stay in my home district in San Antonio. And even when teams don't actually move, the threat of moving sets off a race to the bottom. Billionaire owners pit taxpayers against one another and then extort the government for billions of dollars. We see that right now in Chicago, where Indiana taxpayers are now putting a competition against Illinois taxpayers to subsidize a team worth $8 billion. If you're a fan watching at home, yes, this is a keep the bears in Chicago bill.
We see it in Kansas City, where taxpayers are handing billions to a family already worth $25 billion.
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.
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