Questions About Selling The Team

Have to wonder if this new income tax will impact the sale. It will definitely affect players and trying to attract top free agents. It most certainly will cause agents to push larger contracts and impact rosters.

Ycrew said:

There are a few owners interested in buying the team.

But they want to move the team out of Seattle though.

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And you know this how…?

oldhawkfan said:

And you know this how…?

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The new million income tax.

Would you mean moving the team to one of the states without an income tax? Such as...Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming?

Cool, the Rapid City Hawks, or resurrect the Anchorage Aces team logo for football instead of hockey! ...or something. Sure.

Using the sale of the last NFL team ( Washington Commanders) as a guide the process could take 8 months

Ad Hawk said:

Would you mean moving the team to one of the states without an income tax? Such as...Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming?

Cool, the Rapid City Hawks, or resurrect the Anchorage Aces team logo for football instead of hockey! ...or something. Sure.

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That has nothing to do with it.

The Govenor of Seattle just signed the bill recently.

Ad Hawk said:

Would you mean moving the team to one of the states without an income tax? Such as...Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming?

Cool, the Rapid City Hawks, or resurrect the Anchorage Aces team logo for football instead of hockey! ...or something. Sure.

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Been an age since I’ve heard that name. “And Keith Street, putting it top shelf, where daddy hides the Playboys.” IYKYK.

Jody is well heeled financially and could manage any size or kind of arrangment she feels is necessary.

Ycrew said:

There are a few owners interested in buying the team.

But they want to move the team out of Seattle though.

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No way that’s happening

Sperrydogg said:

No way that’s happening

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Who knows but I recall it was Paul Allen that didn't want the team to be moved.

Trackhawk said:

Been an age since I’ve heard that name. “And Keith Street, putting it top shelf, where daddy hides the Playboys.” IYKYK.

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Hey! Fairbanks has had a hocky player go Pro...for one year. I used to go to Nanook games a lot, but started losing interest. Quite a few of them are from Canada, and have stayed in Fairbanks after college.

ivotuk said:

Hey! Fairbanks has had a hocky player go Pro...for one year. I used to go to Nanook games a lot, but started losing interest. Quite a few of them are from Canada, and have stayed in Fairbanks after college.

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Likewise, spent a lot of time watching the UAA Seawolves. The only kid who briefly made it to the NHL during my time was goalie Greg Naumenko, but he never panned out.

I was coaching pee wees when Scottie Gomez was still a kid, and I remember the funny way he skated. I still have one of his signed, rookie, playoff jerseys. He actually played for the Aces, during the NHL strike.

Best part about watching the Seawolves was getting to see all the future NHL stars that were playing for the visiting team teams.

Correct me if I am wrong but moving the team is 100% off the table. Paul Allen has a stipulation that whomever purchases the team has to keep it in Seattle.

Rat said:

To be a part of it, it'll have to be given to her, because I seriously doubt she can afford even a minority stake without robbing the estate, which I assume is prohibited.

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I don't know that she wasn't along with her brother and other family members part of the initial treasury share offering of Microsoft.

AROS said:

Correct me if I am wrong but moving the team is 100% off the table. Paul Allen has a stipulation that whomever purchases the team has to keep it in Seattle.

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I don't think there is any such stipulation in his will. (I googled and asked ChatGPT, and got nothing indicating such a clause.) The Lumen field lease runs through 2031, so a new owner would either have to wait that long or break the lease.

And, moving the team requires 75% of the owners to approve it. Apart from the rest of the NFC West, who might be thrilled to get their biggest rival out of the division, I'd be surprised if the owners agreed to vacate the entire Pacific northwest market.

What happened to Paul Allen's yacht, the Octopus? I saw a video that they claimed was the Octopus, it was tied up and it rolled over because no one maintained the boat or it's bilge pumps.

Torc said:

I don't think there is any such stipulation in his will. (I googled and asked ChatGPT, and got nothing indicating such a clause.)

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Hmm. Well I heard it for years that there was such a stipulation. I had to hear it from somewhere, I just wish I could recall where.

Torc said:

I don't think there is any such stipulation in his will. (I googled and asked ChatGPT, and got nothing indicating such a clause.) The Lumen field lease runs through 2031, so a new owner would either have to wait that long or break the lease.

And, moving the team requires 75% of the owners to approve it. Apart from the rest of the NFC West, who might be thrilled to get their biggest rival out of the division, I'd be surprised if the owners agreed to vacate the entire Pacific northwest market.

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The Seahawks location covers a large geographic area where there are no NFL teams, so they get a lot of fans from a very large area. The LOB created an even bigger number of fans, and the Dark Side is increasing that number.

And...Seahawks fans are passionate about their team, and because there is almost zero coverage on TV, they absorb every bit of information that they can find.

The reason there are so many people who post articles and film covering the Seahawks on places like YouTube, Reddit and Seahawks.net, is the clicks, and the video up times.

On YouTube you have people like Top Billin, (Philadelphia) the guy on All 22 (Baltimore), and the OLine Committee (Boone Minnesota, Sirles Nebraska, and Mackey Minnesota) are just some of the personalities who cover the Seahawks. I'm pretty sure that they cover our team because Murf of Top Billin said so, The Football Scout said so, and IIRC, the All 22 guy said the same thing, "Getting a LOT of views from these Seahawks fans! Views = $$$$.

I've checked out the channels of a lot of these people, and it's usually 2 teams that they cover, their local team, and the Seahawks. And because they've added our favorite team, I'm pretty sure that there are no fans who are as motivated as Seahawks fans when it comes to consuming anything and everything Seahawks.

Add to all of that, Hawkblogger has been boasting lately that he is the highest rated podcast, and the #1 podcast across most platforms. So all of the resources that we have is because of the passion of us fans, the quality of our online communities, of our local (and non-local) "broadcasters," like Richard Sherman, Dan Viens, Hawkblogger and even Canadian Jeff Simmons (no relation to the exercise guru Richard Simmons) and the success of the Seahawks.

So I expect to see these resources grow since we had this great season with memorable players, and memorable games that should add to our fan base.

Go Hawks!

on a side note, I can not get the song "On the Dark Side" out of my head!

On the Dark Side

AROS said:

Correct me if I am wrong but moving the team is 100% off the table. Paul Allen has a stipulation that whomever purchases the team has to keep it in Seattle.

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I remember that also. It came down to something about we won't be held hostage again as fans and won't have to worry about the team leaving even if he sold it.

If there's anything like that in his will that the new owner can't move the team, I can't imagine it actually being legally enforceable. You can't dictate what somebody does with something if you don't own it anymore. It'd essentially be a pinky promise.

Moving would be incredibly difficult and unlikely to be approved by the league though.