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Unlucky-Cake-6773 t1_iqw8sfa wrote

Reply to comment by BigDKane in TIL that in 1996, Dallas business man John Spano bought controlling ownership of the NHLs New York Islanders for $165 million dollars. After nearly a year it came to light he didn’t have nearly enough funds to complete his purchase of his team. by Mrpink415

I loved that 30 for 30, but I dont think they made it seem like he was ever close to pulling it off.

He said in the interviews he was wide awake all night thinking of how he would come up with another excuse. The closest thing was one person said they heard another company was going to give him a few billion dollars in loans if he got a TV deal or something, but that would have just been kicking the can a bit since he could obviously not afford to pay that back

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BigDKane t1_iqwkrra wrote

Might have just been the vibe I was getting.

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