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How much did Mr Ducksworth offer to pay the league?

posted 9 years ago by eoilersfan1
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Did anybody else think that Mr. Ducksworth definitely offered to pay the league off in order for Adam Banks to stay with the Hawks? I highly doubt that Mr. Ducksworth, Mr. Banks, and Coach Reilly just simply asked the league nicely to consider making an exception pertaining to which team Banks was legally supposed to be playing for. When Mr. Ducksworth told Gordon that the league wanted him to cancel his protest I got the impression that the league's board of directors had a big fat check waiting for them if Gordon would have honored the request.

[–] sandman81 8 years ago

They probably didn't even need to offer them a payoff. Think about it; A partner of a high powered law firm, who is also one of your sponsers, the father of your best player who I think is also a lawyer, and the long tenured coach who has won more titles than the rest of league combined are asking you to undo a minor rule change that you did last year that no one noticed and didn't enforce. If I'm running that league I'm doing what they're saying, I don't care what Bombay says.

More Questions:

Why did the league change the boundaries in the first place? Were they trying to create more competitive balance, and break up the Hawks? Why did Reilly not know about this, or if he did wouldn't he have fought like crazy to stop it? Does it seem likely they would put some very rich suburbs with very poor inner city kids? Did they make the rule to help District 9? But then why did no one enforce it from the league or the team? They had a coach for most of the season before Bombay. Wouldn't other Hawks be moved to District 9 too?

[–] SuperBobster 8 years ago

District 5 mate.

District 9's hockey team have their own problems: getting pads and uniforms that fit for a start! 😀

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 5 years ago

I think that Ducksworth, Mr. Banks and Riley just had a lot of influence over the league and the league was like "OK we'll get Banks back on the Hawks but you gotta get Bombay to stop protesting or else it will be a public relations nightmare for us" which is the reason why Ducksworth tried to bribe Bombay by letting him come back to work and not have to deal with kids anymore. Basically everyone was going to get what they wanted: 1) Riley and Mr. Banks would get Adam back on their team, 2) Bombay would get to be a lawyer again, and 3) The league would be able to save face, except for the Ducks who would have been forgotten in the process and Bombay was the only one who was looking out for them.

[–] Sandman81 (1509) 4 years ago

Just rewatched this last night, and one of things I noticed was Bombay had to do 500 hours of community service. But if you figure that Bombay does 50 hours a week (which he wouldn't for pee-wee hockey team), he would have to do it for 10 weeks. If the Ducks played 1 game a week (unlikely), then he would have only done 4 weeks at the point of the meeting in Ducksworth's office. But Ducksworth says is service is complete. That didn't make sense to me until read this thread, and now it makes sense. Ducksworth got the judge to agree to end Gordon's community service early as a way to entice him to forget about the Ducks and come back to work.

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 4 years ago

Knowing Ducksworth he struck some kind of a deal with the judge to shorten Bombay’s community service after he heard about him pressing Adam to play for the Ducks. He thought if he could get Bombay back into the office the whole issue would die down and Adam could stay on the Hawks. All of this is speculation but that seems like the kind of thing a slimeball like Ducksworth would do.