An Internet-owned hockey team, for the price of a few beers?

Owning a profesNFL jerseysional or minor league franchise has always been an expensive venture, NFL jerseysrequiring deepNFL apparel pockets to cover costs.

Enter Toronto-based Alan Kasperski, who's trying to bring the idea of Internet ownership of acheap nfl jerseys sports team over from Europe -- and applying it to a junior hockey team.nfl merchandise

The price of ownership? Itnfl merchandise might be as low as $50; or as the Toronto Star put it, steelers jerseys"four beers at a big-league game."

The idea of fans owning saints jerseya team via the Internet began three years ago when the website MyFootballClub took over lower level English soccer team Ebbsfleet football jerseyUnited. About 27,000 fans joined the site and each paid ￡35 to help buy football jerseysthe club nhl jerseyand become part owners.

From there, the ownersnhl jerseys would vote nhl team jerseyonline on things like ticket prices, hockey jerseyplayer transfers,nhl hockey jersey player selectionjersey devils, advertising campaigns, and jersey designs. A main board and management teampenguins jersey was set up to help run things from above, but majority of the blackhawks jerseydecisions were left to the 27,000 owners to decide online.

In the club's first year under this unusual ownership, Ebbsfleet United captured the FA Trophy, a tournament that features all semi-professional clubs in Engmlb jerseyland.

Back to Kasperski, who wants to do the same in Canada. He's already approached Hockey Canada about the idea and the CBC about kicking off the campaign during Hockeymlb jerseys Day in Canada on Feb. 12. He isn't looking to attempt this with a major junior team, with the high price tags associated with those franchises; rather, a Junior "A" team whose value is much more affordable to suit his idea.

As he told Dave Perkins of the Toronto baseball jerseyStar, Kasperski says that sometimes fans are the one's with the good ideas, not the few executives running the ship in expensive suits:

"If one man with lots and lots of money can own a team, why couldn't lots and lots of people, each with a little money, own a team, too?" he wonders in his proposal, adding, "the wisdom of the crowd says that a big bunch of people are verybaseball jerseys often smarter than a small group.

"It's the ultimate rotisserie league. You would get to make real decisions aboumlb baseball jerseyt real people using real money."

Which leads us to the big-picture question: Could the Internet own and operate an NHL franchise under thisphillies jersey plan?

With the amount of love thrown the way of the Phoenix Coyotes because of their off-ice issues with ownership and cloudy future, there are enough people out there willing to chip in $100 or so to help buy the team, no? We'd only need about 1.4 million investors ... which could make online voting a little chaotic.

Hey, maybe it could work -- as long as we make sure there isn't an overabundance of money flowing in from the province of Manitoba. Otherwise, there might be a surprise appearance of Mayflower moving trucks one night in Glendale ... cardinals jersey