Posted on 03/01/2014 8:12:58 AM PST by ReformationFan
And no, a team doesn't just have to sit around and weight until it wins -- ask the Lions or the Browns.
A situation where the largest city with the largest media market always gets the best players and usually wins the championship, as was the case with the New York Yankees for a long time, doesn't look much better.
Don't laugh ... it's getting closer and closer to that.
The league's national TV contract pretty much eliminated any disadvantage that small-market teams may have had.
Ironically, city and state income taxes in the Northeast are putting many of those big-market teams at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to signing players to big contracts. In purely monetary terms, a team like the New York Yankees has to offer at least 10%-15% more money to a free agent in order to "match" an offer from a team in a state with no income tax.
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