Motivation Quote by Jim McMahon

Jim McMahon lands this line like a quarterback throwing sidearm: casual, a little cocky, and exactly aimed at a uniquely weird target in American sports. The Packers are the NFL’s civic unicorn, “owned” by shareholders rather than a single billionaire. McMahon flips that feel-good mythology into a jab: sure, you’ve got “lots of owners,” but they’re faceless, symbolic, and powerless. Meanwhile, the rest of the league has the familiar villain archetype - the hands-on tycoon whose ego is louder than his football IQ.

The comedy runs on a clean reversal. “Community ownership” is supposed to sound enlightened, democratic, almost wholesome. McMahon’s subtext is that this democracy is mostly pageantry: the average shareholder gets pride, not control. It’s a roast of Green Bay’s self-image and a sideways critique of how fans romanticize ownership structures without interrogating what ownership actually buys you: decision-making power.

Context matters. McMahon isn’t an economist; he’s a swaggering, Super Bowl-era Chicago Bear, speaking from inside one of the NFL’s most tribal rivalries. So the line doubles as NFC North needlework: Packers fans brag about being different; McMahon replies that “different” doesn’t automatically mean better. And he’s also trolling the broader NFL reality that many owners really don’t know “squat” about the sport they monetize - they just know leverage, real estate, and how to hire the people who know football. The punchline stings because both sides of the comparison are true enough to laugh at.