It’s so weird when you watch clips of Malcolm Glazer and reading into his life story, and you wonder how the family can be so distant as owners. Malcolm Glazer has a fairly inspiring life story, born into a large family of immigrants in New York, humble beginnings in a family watch repair business, lost his father at 15, started work early to support the family, worked all his life basically and then he’s buying real estate and TV stations and finally a failing NFL team and within 8 years winning the Super Bowl. In those Bucs clips of him, he looks passionate and inspiring. Almost like the owner you hope for.
In retrospect, it feels like the sons were really the ones who were buying United rather than him and he was just the figurehead. It’s disappointing they don’t seem to have his characteristics that made him so successful. I guess they didn’t have to go through the hardship he did.
Aren’t their businesses been in the decline since his passing? It feels like that trope of the siblings not being good enough to keep the business going. Malcolm Glazer was like 75 when United got taken over and probably too old to be starting something of that magnitude.