Ireland and Nepotism

[DKphin]

Shows you how an incompetent baffoon can become the GM of our football team.

From the very top of the
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
, the league's owners, to the absolute bottom, the laundry room and ball boys, the NFL is about who you know.
Not what you know.
Jeff Ireland, the
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
' general manager, served as a ball boy with the
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
as a child. He became a scout because his grandfather was an NFL executive.
He landed his present position because
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
was impressed with him in Dallas, and brought him to Miami.
Ireland retained his position because former
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
executive Carl Peterson, who is buddies with Dolphins owner Steve Ross, once hired him, and subsequently endorsed him to Ross.

To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

[Wishfishin]

"Who you know", it's a fact of life in just about every profession.

[Nublar7]

Organizations and people hiring others they know, feel comfortable with and feel they are good at the job. Shocking!

[roy_miami]

The 10 year experiment: Why not the ball boy?

[Hayden Fox]

So what?

[NY8123]

Let's not forget these guys too!


To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

[roy_miami]

Let's not forget these guys too!


To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

60 names there and we ended up with the two biggest fruitcakes of them all, typical.

[Vaark]

Maybe it's time to start consolidating all these Ireland threads - especially the oft-regurgitated ones into a merged "I Hate Ireland" Master Thread. Ya think?
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

[beanh8er]

Wait you mean a guy got an entry level job from his grandfather and worked his way up by himself and then he made friends with and impressed the people he worked for and they like that? You don't say?

[MarshallFin1]

Pretty much he was giftwrapped his Job, didnt have to earn it. Nice to know .

---------- Post added at 09:44 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:43 AM ----------

Organizations and people hiring others they know, feel comfortable with and feel they are good at the job. Shocking!

lol, anything is defendable eh? shocking.