On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Because he's a *big* campaign donor, of course, NY Jets owner Woody
> Johnson will be appointed ambassador
> <http://sports.yahoo.com/news/president-elect-donald-trump-picks-jets-owner-woody-johnson-as-uk-ambassador-194951598.html>
> to the UK (Yahoo link)... his younger brother Christopher takes over the
> team...
>

Obama appointed Dan Rooney, the Steelers' owner, ambassador to Ireland. The
ambassadors to friendly countries are not, as a rule, career diplomats and
are usually used to reward big donors.

>
> ...and the Raiders today filed the needed docs to apply for relocation
> <http://sports.yahoo.com/news/raiders-officially-file-paperwork-to-move-to-las-vegas-with-nfl-owners-vote-pending-173132964.html>
> to "Lost Wages," (another Yahoo link) as a now-departed scribe once called
> it...
>

I always think of Lost Wages as coming from MAD Magazine. If it came from
somewhere else... that would be interesting.

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