Notable quote

[robster2001]

From Deadspin.com blogger Barry Petchetsky in an article about the Phoenix Coyotes bankruptcy sale ruling... emphasis added...


A strong centralized power is essential for a league's legitimacy and solvency. Without it, it's not a league; it's the new ABA. And one day Bettman will be long gone, but at least he'll have preserved the NHL's ability to control itself. The right to make bad decisions is a necessary byproduct of the right to make one's own decisions.
Full article (http://deadspin.com/5371533/the-nhl-gets-its-way-and-paradoxically-so-do-the-fans)

[a1sports]

also thrown around at the AF1 meeting this past week, >> "Lets make sure we are NOT like the ABA"

so it looks like Joe has contributed to the vocabulary of minor league sports.

ABA = disorganized, unrecognized, teams with no money, league with no schedule, no credibility, no integrity at the top level.

so far, past few years we now have: ABA -ish, NEW ABA, Not like the ABA,
all meaning the same thing.

[Paul S]

This is why Joe's greatest lucky stroke is the media thinks his league is such a joke that they don't publish any stories or report on this "league". If the ABA story was more dis-seminated it would be known lexicon.

Joe is oblivious to the fact he is oblivious.............or Joe is acutely aware that this is his saving grace. I don't know which sometimes.