http://espn.go.com/page2/s/2001/0710/1224543.html

Maybe he already has.

I don’t like the idea of painting a man as a Mr. Burns without all the facts.

Being a UB School of Management grad, I am very much aware of the Jacobs’ philanthropy to the college. But here is the seamy underbelly… rare is the time that they do anything for the community out of sheer altruism. Underneath the veneer of a donation is usually some quid pro quo for beverage pouring rights, a Sportservice concession contract or some other side deal to benefit their bottom line.

As for Bucky I have said it before and I will say it again… he is a pretty good darned journalist. I have watched him work and I am a fan of his hockey column and he does his job well. I just don’t understand why he has gotten this bee in his bonnet on this issue. Raising ticket prices a good thing? Sort of like saying raising gas to $5 will help us because oil companies will have reason to seek out new energy sources.

Let’s take Bucky’s argument to an absurd degree… let’s raise ticket prices to an average of $500 ticket. Sabres fans will bail on buying tickets, idiot Leafs fans will snap up the 18,000 tickets for their four games because those morons will pay anything. End result? $36-million in revenue from the Leafs games, empty arenas the rest of the time, and Bucky proclaiming that yes, he was right all along… Fans are no longer buying tickets and it’s all because Quinn and Regier are to blame.

Product pricing… it all affects supply and demand… something I learned in college in Economincs 101.. while sitting in my beautiful classroom in the Jacobs Management Center. (Right down the hall from the Sportservice cafeteria.)

someone who has given almost nothing back to this community, Delaware North’s Jeremy Jacobs

And you seem to know a lot more about Mr. Jacobs lack of giving back to the community than do the UB web site and Roswell Park web sites, each of which is littered with these apparently false claims of his “giving back” in time and money, to UB, the United Way, and Roswell:

http://www.buffalo.edu/ubcouncil/members_jacobs.htm

Mr. Jacobs has provided distinguished service and leadership to the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County, which has designated him a member of its Million Dollar Roundtable of donors.

Under his leadership, Delaware North has received countless awards for social responsibility, community service, and environmental stewardship; the company and the Jacobs family have donated millions of dollars back to the communities where the company operates.

Mr. Jacobs and his family have enhanced UB’s academic programs through many generous gifts, providing scholarships to female student athletes and undergraduate honors scholars, and enabling UB to fund special needs and opportunities as they arise. …Mr. Jacobs gave more than $1 million to help fund two academic chairs and support the School of Management’s MBA program in China. … Mr. Jacobs donated the architectural landmark Butler Mansion to UB for use as a continuing education and training facility.

http://www.roswellpark.org/Giving/About_Us/Newsroom/Jeremy_Jacobs_Family_Makes_1_Million_Gift

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
March 12, 2007
Endowed Chair will honor the
late Dr. Lawrence D. Jacobs’ research legacy
(BUFFALO, NY) Jeremy Jacobs, Chairman and CEO of global hospitality company Delaware North Companies and owner of the Boston Bruins, has provided a $1 million gift with his family to support an endowed chair in Immunology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI). The gift was made to RPCI’s Leaders for Life endowment campaign in honor of Mr. Jacobs’ brother, the late Lawrence D. Jacobs, MD, an internationally renowned immunology researcher who died in 2001.
Jacobs family members expressed their desire to fulfill Dr. Jacobs’ vision for additional landmark advances in the field of immunology through the gift. Dr. Jacobs’ research of relapsing multiple sclerosis during his lifetime led to the development of Avonex, the most widely-used drug to treat this debilitating form of the disease.
The Jacobs Family Chair in Immunology will support innovative research led by Kelvin P. Lee, MD. Dr. Lee was named Chair of the Department of Immunology and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine at RPCI in October 2006, when he joined the Institute from the University of Miami Medical School/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. His work focuses on developing new vaccines and antibodies, and advancing novel immunotherapies to fight cancer.

“I used to watch hockey until Jeremy Jacobs bought the Bruins.”

If there is one person you DON’T want to be taking advice on what to do with your hockey team it’s him. Boston went from being a hockey town before his arrival to the Bruins being an afterthought since he took over. The guy could easily make the top five of ‘worst owners in sports’ which is probably why the worst columnist at the paper thinks it’s a good idea to ask him what he thinks.

I think your muslim references are totally funny. I can just imagine a cartoon of Bucky wearing a dark hood with Saudi Arabian alphabet and letters and holding a AK47 with Quinn kneeling on the ground awaiting his beheading.