I was too young and not all that interested in football to follow the details at the time, but someone I was talking to claimed the City of Baltimore was set to forcibly take the team away from owner Robert Irsay by the power of imminent domain, which is why he moved the entire team in the middle of the night to Indianapolis. Is this true, was Baltimore set to seize the team?
First, it’s eminent domain. Second, you weren’t too young at the time. It was only twenty-four years ago. I’ve met you, and you were certainly in your twenties at the time if I can guess your age at all well.
Ohhhkaythen.
If I produced my ID and proved to you that I was too young, would you think about actually answering the question? I’d still let you point out irrelevant facts if you wanted to do so.
There were certainly talking about it.
http://www.sportslawnews.com/archive/jargon/LJEminent.html
They might have succeeded, they might not, but it wasn’t going to be pretty.
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That was unnecessarily snarky, Wendell.
Use of Eminent domain bully-bow tactics really doi sour the economic climate in a city. UNless you’re the politicians’s pal, you’re vulnerable, and things like prove it. The fact that the gov then tried to yank the team back was a sordid joke, and Baltimoreans have noone to blame but themselves for tolerating this kind of nonsense.