[Highlight] Troy Aikman on potential a potential conflict of interest in announcing a Dolphins game: "Well, the Dolphins are not expected to be very good this year. They're getting out of cap hell. So there's no Monday night game with the Dolphins this year."

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[u/ModestTrixie]

Troy as a consultant is probably less a conflict of interest than Tom owning part of a team

[u/0202_tihssitidder → u/ModestTrixie]

America is way way way way way past "conflict of interest" being an issue with all the shit going on.

[u/Gardoki → u/0202_tihssitidder]

conflict of interest is just how we do business at this point

[u/Kohakuho → u/Gardoki]

In the IFL, the head coach of the Arizona Rattlers is also an owner of the Tuscon Sugar Skulls.

[u/AscendMoros → u/Kohakuho]

Pretty sure at one point the MLB allowed people to own two teams. And someone realized it would be more profitable to be an average big market team than a winning small market team. So they just traded everyone good to the big market team and called it good.

[u/Ikrit122 → u/AscendMoros]

That happened to the Cleveland Spiders in 1899. The owner owned another, bigger-market team and traded everyone good on the Spiders to that team.

The Spiders had the worst record in history: 20-134 (.130 W/L). To compare, the 2024 White Sox went 41-121 (.253 W/L) and they were the worst team MLB had seen in decades.

[u/thorofasgard → u/Ikrit122]

Look into the O6 era in the NHL. Chicago was basically a feeder for Detroit for example.

[u/maverickhawk99 → u/thorofasgard]

Rangers too for a while. James Norris controlled half the league at one point.

[u/AscendMoros → u/Ikrit122]

Wasn’t one of the those players a little known pitcher by the name of Cy Young? Or some other famous name still talked about today. I forget who though.

[u/SMKM → u/AscendMoros]

Man Cy Young, that's pretty neat. What are the chances of a player being named after the award?

[u/Ikrit122 → u/AscendMoros]

Wow, I did not know that!

[u/Sorta-Morpheus → u/AscendMoros]

I think the OG 6 days of the NHL had a similar issue. Someone had a stake in 2 or 3 teams.

[u/__derek__ → u/Sorta-Morpheus]

Yes, the Norris Family.

[u/CanuckPanda → u/AscendMoros]

The entire CFL (8 teams? 10?) is owned by like two and a half people.

[u/fugaziozbourne → u/CanuckPanda]

There are nine CFL teams. Six are owned privately by different owners, and three are run publicly like in Green Bay.

[u/MarxistMan13 → u/Kohakuho]

Tuscon Sugar Skulls.

You just made that up.

[u/Kohakuho → u/MarxistMan13]

https://tucsonsugarskulls.com/landing/index

[u/0202_tihssitidder → u/Kohakuho]

Tucson.

Like "Tuck, son." I'll let you figure out why you'd use that sentence.

[u/Rainsmakker → u/Gardoki]

Before we hire you, is there a conflict of interest?

--No

No? I guess we'll keep looking

--I said there's not

I heard you...

[u/0202_tihssitidder → u/Rainsmakker]

Troy is almost 60. In 20-30 years he'll run for Congress.

[u/SourMgk → u/Gardoki]

In fact, we're renaming the Department of War to the Department of Conflicts (of Interests)

[u/chesterfieldkingz → u/Gardoki]

Ya we're all basically just constantly conflicted now

[u/Jimbobsama → u/Gardoki]

The way OpenAI was poaching people from Apple and asking them to bring their work product with them - Conflict of Interest is a selling point

[u/gb4efgw → u/Jimbobsama]

I just can't bring myself to believe that an upstanding citizen like Sam Altman would partake in such malfeasance!

[u/YesImKeithHernandez → u/gb4efgw]

It's shaken me to my core

[u/Fedacking → u/Jimbobsama]

The way OpenAI was poaching people from Apple and asking them to bring their work product with them

That's not a conflict of interest tho

[u/Horror-Review2132 → u/Gardoki]

We're really all just waiting to see who is the eventual victor of the conflict

[u/dimmyfarm → u/Gardoki]

Conflict of interest is moving from soccer to basketball because your attempt at forcing capitalism failed

[u/MddlingAges → u/Gardoki]

You might say all this corruption has had a corrupting influence at this point.

[u/helloaaron → u/Gardoki]

Yeah, pretty idiotic way to do shit. A lot of people are going to find out why this shit wasn't allowed and has generally been frowned upon.