Tell me about Jack Kent Cooke

[cochise]

Also, JKC is known as the only owner to never ask for a dime from the city for his stadium and/or his orginzation !

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by cochise

Also, JKC is known as the only owner to never ask for a dime from the city for his stadium and/or his orginzation !

Isn't the reason the stadium is now in Maryland because the City wouldn't give him the land to build it?

[sportscurmudgeon]

Frplg:

The reason the stadium is in PG County and not in DC is a very complex issue but the short version is that the DC Government could never bring itself to the point of exercising eminent domain over land to build the stadiu, in DC.

It is far more complex than that because the government's "inability"/refusal to do so is tied up in other issues where JKC refused to guarantee certain pieces of the construction work and supervisory work to companies who were "favorites". There was lots of other "stuff" going on here but the nonsense went on for about 10 years and then JKC decided he had to look elsewhere.

[Dirtbag59]

Just finished it. Paper ended up barely missing the 3,000 word mark. Anyway just wanted to take a second to thank everyone who contributed to the thread. Especially (God I know I'm going to miss someone here) sportscurmudgeon, mrreddman, smootsmack, 70 Chip, 12thman, FreddyG, and SlinginSammy.

Sammy I also thought you'll be happy to know that I opened the essay with the quote from your sig. Though I freaked out for a second because I realized I'd have to cite the quote and I knew that citing SlingingSammy33 from the Warpath.net wasn't going to cut, luckily the quote happened to be in one of my sources so it worked out in the end. From there on I opened each section of the paper with a JKC quote.

”[If] an angel fairy came down and said, '[You can have anything]....you would like to own,' I wouldn't be surprised if you said a football club and particularly the Washington Redskins.'' — Jack Kent Cooke, 1996 (AP, JKC Quotes)

Legacy: An Introduction to Jack Kent Cooke

“Yes I was very good at it, because I believe you can do almost anything you want to do if you're willing to apply yourself with deliberation, with a smidgen of common sense, and the will to do it above all.'' — Jack Kent Cooke, When asked how he was able to excel at selling encyclopedias despite that fact that he ‘hated it’. (Heyward Interview)

T’was a Man Named Jack: Cooke’s Life Story

“Nobody’s going to write a book about me [50 years from now], because nobody’s going to find anything worth writing a book about.” — Jack Kent Cooke, summer 1995 (AP, JKC Quotes)

Blueprint: The Beliefs and Habits that Made Cooke Great

I am in a state of ectasy. Never mind that nonsense about euphoria and so on, it is sheer unadulterated, uncompromising ectasy.” — Jack Kent Cooke, after winning the 1983 Super Bowl (AP, JKC Quotes)

Conclusion

Of course my favorite quote from the paper concerns the PLC's:
“imagine if you were on a trip and you checked into a hotel and the fellow said 'first thing you have to do is give me a personal payment for the right to rent a room.’ What would you say?" [No sir.] "That’s right, in fact I wouldn't even say sir I'd say, no you stupid ass" (Fox 5 Special).


Anyway just wanted to extend another thank you to everyone that helped with the thread.