Richardson Statue Coming Down

[4Corners]

Just now, Bronn said:

Supposedly this is "temporary."

I suppose that remains to be seen.

Yeah, it will be as “temporary” as long as it takes for the fans to forget about it. I’d give it a year. Solid PR move from the team. 

[45catfan]

13 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

Absolutely. It’s totally a realistic and very sincere point of view and would totally not be difficult to enforce. Idiot. 

Well, idiot, want to make a wager on this?  How much?  Seriously, put your money where your mouth is.  

[4Corners]

Just now, bull123 said:

 

so if fans dont kneel they lose their tickets and are escorted out?

Yes. Better yet, they are maced in the face, smacked Upside the head with a nightstick and drug out by the sperrys or affliction shirts. Don’t like it? They can choose not to come. 

[onmyown]

4 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

It makes for a convenient excuse.

Well everything I’ve read says it’s temporary...and it’s being MOVED not REMOVED. It doesn’t surprise me JR has a stranglehold to keep this ‘he didn’t want so much’ statue in place. I see no reason to celebrate this BS if it’s just put somewhere else or kept around, it needs to be gone, period.

I really wish we could see the stipulations in the contract, I’m sure there is a legal way around it. Could also be as a serious As Tepper forfeiting the team if he removes it. Who knows.

JR is a racist and sexist but he isn’t stupid. He was never technically ‘forced’ to do anything, and his victims took money instead of legal action and speaking out. Point is, he voluntarily sold the team before things got too involved/hot for him to have no say or authority, which may mean he still has a lot of say of how things go down.

Talk about a poo stain that just won’t wash out. What a POS.

 

[MechaZain]

12 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

Also need to remove his name from UNCC’s football field. Probably the next domino to fall. 

That's gonna be tough because it was a direct quid pro quo. The university wanted $5 million for 13 years of naming rights at the time and it became Jerry Richardson stadium after he suddenly "donated" $10 million.

[45catfan]

6 minutes ago, Bronn said:

What do you think?

To that degree, no.  It's called extortion and very much illegal.

[Khyber53]

He has a couple of billion dollar bills to wipe away his tears. He'll get over it.

He did bring us an NFL franchise to the Carolinas -- not a transferred one, but one we could call our very own and for that he deserves our thanks. How he acted after that, well, a fellow can just tarnish the hell out of his own reputation. 

Thanks for the team, but he dug the ditch his reputation was left in.

[45catfan]

1 minute ago, 4Corners said:

Yes. Better yet, they are maced in the face, smacked Upside the head with a nightstick and drug out by the sperrys or affliction shirts. Don’t like it? They can choose not to come. 

This clown.

[Cookie Lyon]

Public safety issue? That statue should be tossed in the water along with the other statues.

[onmyown]

9 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

Not to derail the thread here but one thing that would go A LONG way in rebuilding and helping our country is to do away with non disclosure agreements. It’s almost a get out of jail free card for the wealthy. We need to hold people accountable especially people who are supposed to be leaders in our community. 

100% agree. 

But you can’t FORCE people to talk...it’s their right not to, non disclosure or not.

And like JR...you offer someone enough money to set them up for life...people are going to take it. 

But I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment, it’s BS.

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, Bronn said:

Supposedly this is "temporary."

I suppose that remains to be seen.

Not buying it.

It's an awful lot of trouble to move something that large. To move it back would be just as big a deal.

Plus you'd have to want to.

I don't think Tepper does.

Tepper reportedly removed everything that referenced Jerry Richardson from the inside of the stadium shortly after acquiring the team. It seems pretty clear he didn't care about Richardson's legacy.

Richardson, of course, cares a lot about it, but so what?

I think the whole "public safety" thing is an excuse, and one they can cite for years to come.

(or at least until Richardson isn't around anymore)

[vorbis]

if nothing else, it's the perfect symbol of the ultimate end of the Jerry Richardson era. I guess the final nail will be when the permanent stadium is erected out of the shadows of BOA.

[onmyown]

2 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

He has a couple of billion dollar bills to wipe away his tears. He'll get over it.

He did bring us an NFL franchise to the Carolinas -- not a transferred one, but one we could call our very own and for that he deserves our thanks. How he acted after that, well, a fellow can just tarnish the hell out of his own reputation. 

Thanks for the team, but he dug the ditch his reputation was left in.

The taxpayers of the Carolinas, the demand, and PSL owners willing to front the cash had much much more to do with it. JR isn’t special, if it wasn’t him it would have been another rich businessman.  One who possibly would’ve represented the team in a much better way.

How does one pay thousands in PSL fees to support a stadium built and renovated mainly by local tax payers offer so much thanks to a cheap billionaire who only cares about profits? I’ll never understand. 

[jfra78]

When they put it back, it will be rearranged to where the two panthers are feeding on JR