“The NFL Rules prohibit conduct by shareholders of NFL member clubs that is detrimental to the NFL, including, among other things, . . . publicly criticizing any NFL member club or its management, employees or coaches or any football official employed by the NFL,” the offering document explains. “If the Commissioner of the NFL (the ‘Commissioner’) decides that a shareholder of an NFL member club has been guilty of conduct detrimental to the welfare of the NFL then, among other things, the Commissioner has the authority to fine such shareholder up to $500,000 and/or require such shareholder to sell his or her stock.”

It would be fun (or maybe another word) to chronicle the efforts of the Commissioner to potentially fining me up to $500,000 for criticizing Roger Goodell or Jeff Pash or any specific owners or teams or officials or coaches or whatever. It also would be fun to see them try to collect the money.

On one hand, it’s a stupid boilerplate provision that will never actually be enforced. On the other hand, it’s in the document, and it’s apparently there for a reason.

Gotta give credit to the Packers organization. If they can trick those rubes into buying "stock" and exchanging what is essentially a worthless piece of paper for stadium upgrades, good for them.

That's almost as bad as selling PSL's for thousand of dollars each to renovate a crappy stadium into a slightly less crappy but still ridiculously undersized stadium, and then to have them become worthless when they move outside the city. Rubes inded.

That's almost as bad as selling PSL's for thousand of dollars each to renovate a crappy stadium into a slightly less crappy but still ridiculously undersized stadium, and then to have them become worthless when they move outside the city. Rubes inded.

You bought a bunch of shares, didn’t you?

That's almost as bad as selling PSL's for thousand of dollars each to renovate a crappy stadium into a slightly less crappy but still ridiculously undersized stadium, and then to have them become worthless when they move outside the city. Rubes inded.

Like any team in the league wouldn’t do it if they could and every fanbase wouldn’t happily fork over for it.

THIS.
Packer shares are not much different than PSL's.
You want season tickets bad enough, you'll pay the PSL or some other fan will.

There are ZERO similarities.

An aside, the last time the Ravens played at Soldier Field was today's date in 2013. It was also on this day that an F4 tornado ripped through Peoria and Washington, IL, and the Bears game had a nearly 2 hour weather delay.

Since there’s no good reason for PSLs to exist other than a chance for teams to bilk fans out of more money, they’re pretty similar. You can sell season tickets just fine without the extra PSL cost, but why leave money on the table.

An aside, the last time the Ravens played at Soldier Field was today's date in 2013. It was also on this day that an F4 tornado ripped through Peoria
and Washington, IL, and the Bears game had a nearly 2 hour weather delay.

I remember that game. Kim and I went up to the Dells in a monsoon...left a little after kickoff...got to watch the 2nd half in the bar up there. That was also the day I learned that Monk's gives out Jello shots every time the Packers score a TD.

Great, so we agree any way to soak your dumb fans, if they get something or not, is perfectly fine because every team does it.