REDS: I agree with ramy!!!...The Castellennis (sp) are trying harder and giving more to work with than several of the previous owners of the team (including our very own, loveable Marge...
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COLTS: When Robert Irsay moved the team here from Baltimore, that should have been our first clue with what we were dealing with. The team was in shambles until he died and left the franchise to his son. Jim Irsay started off a little shakey, and despite the fact he is a little on the goofy side, has blossomed into one of the better owners in the NFL!!! Had a drug problem a few years ago, but seems to have overcome that...good for him!!!...
PACERS: The Simon brothers are a little Jecklye and Hyde with the team. They brought one of the few successful teams in the ABA into the NBA and then let it flail in the wind for a decade. They actually had a telethon to "Save the Pacers" on a local TV station back in the late 70's!!!...
The team seemed destined to be just plain bad until they hired Donnie Walsh as their GM, made some very good draft picks, (Hello, Reggie Miller!!!...:up), and in the mid 90's made it to the ECF for a couple of years and even to the Finals once,
but since then, the team has suffered many setbacks...(Ron Artest and the brawl, Reggie retired, the whole team seemed to be getting into shootouts at strip clubs...etc.)...It is now a team in flux and the Simons don't seem to know how to fix it!!!...
).COLTS: When Robert Irsay moved the team here from Baltimore, that should have been our first clue with what we were dealing with. The team was in shambles until he died and left the franchise to his son. Jim Irsay started off a little shakey, and despite the fact he is a little on the goofy side, has blossomed into one of the better owners in the NFL!!! Had a drug problem a few years ago, but seems to have overcome that...good for him!!!...
PACERS: The Simon brothers are a little Jecklye and Hyde with the team. They brought one of the few successful teams in the ABA into the NBA and then let it flail in the wind for a decade. They actually had a telethon to "Save the Pacers" on a local TV station back in the late 70's!!!...
The team seemed destined to be just plain bad until they hired Donnie Walsh as their GM, made some very good draft picks, (Hello, Reggie Miller!!!...:up), and in the mid 90's made it to the ECF for a couple of years and even to the Finals once,but since then, the team has suffered many setbacks...(Ron Artest and the brawl, Reggie retired, the whole team seemed to be getting into shootouts at strip clubs...etc.)...It is now a team in flux and the Simons don't seem to know how to fix it!!!...
