god you're so depressing.

hey, if we believed you, the Sounders wouldn't have sold out their seats and had to expand the seating area, and gays would just sit quietly and let themselves get beaten up ...

stop being so defeatist ...

The FC United of Manchester model?

Another problem with the Packers model is that the business model of the Packers remained viable, the team can still make the oodles of money that is required to field a successful team.

Can the not-PI maintain an obsolete business model on what amounts to charity rather than communal ownership of a successful business.

duh name it the green bay packers

Hey, why not name the paper the Puget Sound Journal?

Didn't the original one go out of business ...

Clearly, it should be called the Post-Post-Intellegencer.

There's hope--pledges are being collected to start the SeattlePostGlobe at SeattlePostGlobe@yahoo.com. Read here:

http://tinyurl.com/bve84u

Hey, actually you know only part of the story. The P-I reporters are considering a consumer/worker cooperative and other models, not just the Packers plan. A UW prof seems to favor the cooperative model:

http://seattlepost.wetpaint.com/page/Coo…

Here's a more succinct summary:

http://seattlepostpi.wetpaint.com/