I like Frank and his latest in yesterdays Ottawa Citizen should prove to some of you who dislike him and think he has other motives, how this man would be a great a nd refreshing owner and should be granted a CFL franchise in Ottawa or anywhere else.
Here is the link.
Honestly, I don't know what to think about this guy.
Maybe Jeff Hunt will want to get involved with Frank and vice versa.
Jeff Hunt is everything. If D'Angelo was smart, he'd pull out all the stops to get him onside.
The I'd know what to think about him.
Good on him for taking the high road.
Also, a side benefit is that this will bring attention to the CFL in Ottawa - less of the out-of-sight-out-of-mind problem. It's pretty hard to miss a full-page ad ...
So for those two things, I'm impressed. But at the same time there's the same reasons why I don't think he'd be a good owner:
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The fact that he's putting himself in the limelight so much (the best owners stay out of the picture - no pun intended),
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The fact that he's using it to sell his beer. (Nice of him to say that he could have done without the steelback logos, but then why are they there??? I'm sure he can tell his advertising agency what to do. And he did want to rename the team the Ottawa Steelback.)
I'm still relieved it didn't work out for him ... If he's being honest and truly does just want a football team, then I feel bad for him that it didn't work out, but I'm just not confident he'd be able to run the team the way it needs to be run: without goofy owners.
Ottawa fans have MORE than enough reason to be skeptical of loud, radical, megalomaniac owners ...
CaptainKirk wrote:
Honestly, I don't know what to think about this guy.
Ditto for me.
As Hugh Adami said
But Hunt suspects it was the Ben Johnson-Cheetah ads that had the CFL thinking D'Angelo may not be a good fit in a ''conservative'' sports market such as Ottawa.''He's pushing the envelope a bit,'' said Hunt, just as Lonie Glieberman did with a controversial beads-for-boobs promotion in which women competed for a $1,000 prize by baring their breasts. ''And I'm sure he knows it.''
Frank already has an image too much like Lonie Glieberman
Both are unabashed natural publicity hounds.
I am sure the CFL fears he would be too much in the public eye
and he would always be staging questionable publicity stunts.
"Did you cheetah my friend"? Have to admit that this commercial, as corny as it is, gives me a laugh, sort of like it because you can see that Frankie and Ben are just having some fun with the whole thing and want to laugh themselves.
What makes a D'Angelo bid even more credible is that the CFL knows he could ill-afford to run the franchise into the ground or abandon it because of the product identification with his beer and beverages. Hunt said D'Angelo would face at least some degree of consumer boycott of his products - unlike Bernie and Lonie Glieberman, whose business holdings in Michigan were unlikely affected after they cut loose from the Ottawa Renegades last winter and forced the CFL to suspend operations in Ottawa.
I totally agree with this.
D'Angelo's would never get financial support in this country again if he ran the Ottawa franchise into the ground.
[b]But Hunt suspects it was the Ben Johnson-Cheetah ads that had the CFL thinking D'Angelo may not be a good fit in a ''conservative'' sports market such as Ottawa.
''He's pushing the envelope a bit,'' said Hunt, just as Lonie Glieberman did with a controversial beads-for-boobs promotion in which women competed for a $1,000 prize by baring their breasts. ''And I'm sure he knows it.''[/b]
Absolute rubbish.
The Glieberman idea was retarded wheras the idea of using Ben Johnson still might work and may actually sell the sports drink; time will tell.
I am still convinced that the big beer companies had a hand in blocking D'Angelo.
His beer is still hardly known but if he gets a football team then Steelback will hit the big time and will definately get some market share from Molson and Labatt.
Good point, r4758.
There's food for thought. it's [i]capitalism[/i] at work in Ottawa. 