NFL exec: 'Not fair' to ask billionaire owners to finance their own stadiums

With Los Angeles expecting at least one NFL team to return to the city in the near feature, NFL Executive Vice President Eric Grubman expressed some views on stadium finance that can only be described as absurdly unpopular.

Grubman, a recent guest on the "Bernie Miklasz Show," got into a debate with the host when Miklasz intimated that if he were worth $7 billion, he would choose to not burden the people of his city by asking of for as much public money as possible to build a new stadium. Grubman had a sharp response to Miklaz.

"I don’t believe you, and you don’t believe yourself," Grubman said. "What you just said is, 'If I’m worth $7.2 billion, the difference between $400 million and $300 million as a public contribution isn’t going to change anything, and I’m going to work with them at $300 million even if it’s not $400 million.' I call B.S. on that."

The conversation, which then shifted to the topic of billionaire St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke and his stadium plans in Los Angeles, only got more tense.

"That’s not life. Life is: [Kroenke’s] got options," Grubman added. "Everyone has options, and they have to weigh those options against one another, and it’s not fair for you to bring up a person’s net worth to say that makes the difference between $400 million and $300 million."

Whether he is right or wrong, for us non-billionaires, Grubman sounds awfully out of touch.