Jack Kent Cooke just called me!

[Gracelander]

So i'm getting ready to take a shower and the phone rings. I go to pick it up and the caller ID says it's Jack Kent Cooke, but as usual the redskins let me down again, it was just Larry Michael offering me tickets for next year. You think they could change the name on the caller id. :doh:

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[Yusuf06]

I don't know, was there a strange white light beckoning you? Dude, you may have bought the farm.

[TheLongshot]

Given the color, I think he was calling you from hell.

[Thinking Skins]

Man, I still cry when I think about how important JKC was to this organization.

[sideshow24]

They are trying to trigger your subconscious into remembering the good old days and saying yes!

[ttr77]

Given the color, I think he was calling you from hell.

For allowing the chain of events that lead to the current ownership? :)

[ECU-ALUM]

Man, I still cry when I think about how important JKC was to this organization.

I admit I would give just about anything to have him back and in-charge.

He may not have been the perfect owner...but when it is all said and done...he did more things right than wrong with this franchise.

[Gibbs Hog Heaven]

For allowing the chain of events that lead to the current ownership? :)

Cruel, but oh so sadly true.

Hail.

[Gracelander]

They are trying to trigger your subconscious into remembering the good old days and saying yes!


I was thinking the same thing. If it said Dan Snyder I probably wouldn't have picked up.. oops, gotta run, John Lennon is calling

[ECU-ALUM]

They are trying to trigger your subconscious into remembering the good old days and saying yes!

:applause:Well-Played!

[DGreen1]

Bruce Willis is that you? I've been seeing dead people!

[Buford]

if it said Dan Snyder. Would you have answered?

[TheLongshot]

For allowing the chain of events that lead to the current ownership? :)

Honestly, JKC is partially responsibile for the franchise's decline by hiring Norv. Also, while he was a good owner for the most part, he was kind of a **** as a person.

Anyways, enough of that.

[Stophovr6]

http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/5590.html

Just found this article. For as many coaching changes etc. that we've had recently, it pretty interesting to see that we've only had four owners/operators for this team. It would seem that 3 of them kind of mesh together.

I don't know much about Williams but it almost seems like we've never had a very personable owner.

[SoulRebel]

He called me and said he wouldn't lift the curse off of the team until his name is back on his stadium.

[ttr77]

Also, while he was a good owner for the most part, he was kind of a **** as a person.

Anyways, enough of that.

Well, he's one up on Dan.

But, you're right...enough about that.

[RememberOsaka]

if it said Dan Snyder. Would you have answered?


Everyone knows if it was REALLY him it would have said MR. Snyder

[MadMonkey]

He called me and said he wouldn't lift the curse off of the team until his name is back on his stadium.

Well call him back and tell him that if he didn't put the team in trust instead of willing it to his son that earned it his name never would of been removed :)

[pjfootballer]

JKC Phone Home!!

[SMOSS89]

Honestly, JKC is partially responsibile for the franchise's decline by hiring Norv. Also, while he was a good owner for the most part, he was kind of a **** as a person.

Anyways, enough of that.


Not to mention it was he to decided to take the Skins out of DC and make Fed Ex field. But yeah, enough of that.

[jfriedenthal]

Dan Snyder paid to have him brought back from the dead in hopes of lighting a spark under the teams arse.

[Mr.Skinbo]

thats pretty cool, Chris Farley called me once.

[Dr. Terrapin]

Honestly, JKC is partially responsibile for the franchise's decline by hiring Norv. Also, while he was a good owner for the most part, he was kind of a **** as a person.

Anyways, enough of that.


Joe Gibbs....Any free agents the coaching staff wanted, regardless of the $$$...3 Lombardi Trophies....

Regardless, DE MORTUIS NIHIL NISI BONUM.

RIP

[Thinking Skins]

Not to mention it was he to decided to take the Skins out of DC and make Fed Ex field. But yeah, enough of that.

Actually Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon/Kelly is responsible for that. Then she goes and uses taxpayer money to build her house :doh:

[NawtyMagazine]

womp womp womps

[Jofizz]

People forget that he built FedExField. Most want to attach it to Dan.

[dcnativenerd]

Yup, that is true. I mean, it WAS JKC Stadium for awhile. But, wasn't Snyder the one who added all those seats? How expensive were the tickets back then?

Anyway, yeah...that's kinda spooky...it would have been cool to have a talk with him, even though (from what I understand) he was kind of a jerk. If anything, just to listen to his speech cadence. The man had a great voice and cadence.

[Tastes Like Chicken]

That's too hilarious.

For some reason, I have a vision of JKC appearing as a silvery-blue "Force ghost" (Star Wars) and telling Mr. Snyder that Jerrah Jones is his father. :)

[Boss_Hogg]

People forget that he built FedExField. Most want to attach it to Dan.

Yep JKC did build the new field, but Snyder's fingerprints are all over it.

[blindside]

What happened when snyder first bought the franchise? Didn't JKC want to keep it in the family and snyder outbid for it? I am not quite sure what happned...

[Gibbs Hog Heaven]

For some reason, I have a vision of JKC appearing as a silvery-blue "Force ghost" (Star Wars) and telling Mr. Snyder that Jerrah Jones is his father. :)

NOW it all makes PERFECT sense.

Hail.

[SirClintonPortis]

It's just Norv's evil twin/clone wanting a job here.

[MadMonkey]

What happened when snyder first bought the franchise? Didn't JKC want to keep it in the family and snyder outbid for it? I am not quite sure what happned...

Jack Kent Cooke left the team in trust in his will, his thinking was if his son wanted the team he would work for it. When he died the trust took over the sale of the team and decided to jack up the price of the team which at the time was the highest ever for a franchise $850mil I think. Snyder had no say but to pay the asking price or loose out.

Here is snippet of the sale process..

Jack Kent Cooke was a very public man in most everything he did, except for his business
decisions. The question of why he didn't leave his football team and new stadium to his family
instead of to a charitable foundation is still unanswered.
John Kent Cooke declined to comment through a spokesman on his efforts to put together a bid,
but in the past he has said he is committed to purchasing the Redskins.
"I am a bidder for the Redskins and Jack Kent Cooke Stadium and intend to keep the Redskins in
the Cooke family," John Kent Cooke said. "As such, I have recused myself from the sale process
and it would be inappropriate for me to comment on the activities of the other members of my
father's estate and their advisors."
Angelos said he will decide over the next week whether to proceed with his bid, but suggested
strongly he's in.
He and other bidders have expressed concern that the team will be sold through a stock
transaction rather than a sale of the team's assets, if the trustees choose that direction. A stock
transaction, in which the buyer buys the stock in Jack Kent Cooke Inc., would enable the Cooke
foundation to avoid a corporate tax.
Potential buyers such as Angelos and Landow said they dislike a stock deal because it denies
them a tax break on player salaries that they would otherwise receive in an asset transfer.
Without the tax breaks, the team is likely to sell for less. The Minnesota Vikings fetched $ 230
million in a stock deal earlier this year.
"A stock sale would diminish the value of the asset due to the loss in tax benefits to the
purchaser," Landow said.
In the case of a stock sale, the buyer will most likely assume the $ 200 million in debt presently
on the stadium instead of paying it off with the purchase price.

Another player who has recently entered the game is Snyder, the chief executive officer of
Bethesda-based Snyder Communications, a niche marketing firm he founded that has made him
a multimillionaire, according to the firm's sales figures.
Snyder has contacted several other bidding groups and he may go in with one of the others.
Snyder has business ties to Mortimer Zuckerman, who made a fortune in real estate and owns
the New York Daily News, Atlantic Monthly magazine and U.S. News & World Report. Zuckerman
is Snyder Communications' second-largest stockholder and is one of three outside executives on
Its eight-member board of directors.

[FCREDSKINS]

Honestly, JKC is partially responsibile for the franchise's decline by hiring Norv. Also, while he was a good owner for the most part, he was kind of a **** as a person.

Anyways, enough of that.
Not having a GM is our biggest downfall, Norv was just a slightly below average coach while here I don't blame JKC, Casserly hired Norv. JKC was loved by the players, thats what kind of person he was.

[HapHaszard]

That's too hilarious.

For some reason, I have a vision of JKC appearing as a silvery-blue "Force ghost" (Star Wars) and telling Mr. Snyder that Jerrah Jones is his father. :)

:doh: Now that is just wrong. :D