Posted on 12/17/2018 5:54:07 AM PST by C19fan
That is one of the reasons the Patriot’s consistency over the last 15 years is so incredible. The only player throughout that time period has been Brady. It also helps to have the Hooded One for coach.
OK, Pats haters bring it on!
Hardly. Most NHL fans I know could have identified every player on their favorite team without any names or numbers on their uniforms. Historically, hockey was the one sport that had very few casual fans.
Most careers of top players in sports are at least as long as the time it takes a child first getting interested in sports to reach the age of 18.
When I was young I followed the New York Giants from their abysmal years of the late 1970s through their success of the late 1980s. The roster changed a bit every year, but that championship team was built through years of solid drafting and some key free agent signings from the USFL.
If they lost Lawrence Taylor to free agency in 1984 and then signed Joe Montana as their starting QB in 1985, I'd say my interest in that team would have disappeared.
And in general people root for the name on the front, not the back, every Yankees owner has known that.
Yankee fans root for winning teams. That's why their attendance has never returned to its peak in the new Yankee Stadium back in 2010 -- the first year after they won their last World Series.
In the 60s, even when the Mets were bad, they outdrew the Yankees.
Almost all of the top players of the 1970s and 1980s spent their entire careers with one team -- aside from perhaps a season or two at the very end when they were just hanging on before retirement. Even to this day you can't even think about these stars without associating them with their teams: Walter Payton (Bears), Dan Marino (Dolphins), Joe Montana (49ers), Lawrence Taylor (Giants), Jack Lambert (Steelers), Dan Fouts (Chargers).
When you think of Deion Sanders, which team is he associated with? How about Adrian Peterson? How about Frank Gore -- the NFL's current career rushing leader among active running backs? How many teams did Randy Moss play for?
“In the 60s, even when the Mets were bad, they outdrew the Yankees.”
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Seriously?
I always thought that the Yankees were THE New York team after the Dodgers skipped town.
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Full disclosure: I'd have far more respect for that team if they weren't 0-2 in the Super Bowl against two slightly-better-than-average Giants teams.
A lot of New England's success was built on mystique and fear of Bill Belichick by opposing coaches. The Giants never had that problem in the Tom Coughlin era because Coughlin and Belichick were assistant coaches together under Bill Parcells in the early 1990s.
It kind of makes sense, on second thought. The Yankees play in the South Bronx, which was an absolute sh!t-hole from the 1960s through the late 1980s. The Yankees drew 4 million fans every year from 2005 through 2008. They didn't even reach the 2.5 million mark -- playing in the same stadium -- for the first time until 1979.
Yankees were bad in the mid- to late-60s.
Just think about that for a moment. What a lot of fans today don't realize is that even great teams back in those days didn't draw a lot of fans when they were playing the mediocre teams around the league.
Here's another indicator of just how tough it was for even the Yankees to sell tickets: When Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's record with his 61st home run on the last day of 1961, there were only about 23,000 fans in attendance at Yankee Stadium.
Televised games would have had a lot to do with it IMHO.
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Maybe. But attendance for the Yankees was pretty marginal even from the 1920s through the 1940s. They didn’t broadcast on TV until 1947.
Well, you won’t have to see Baker’s either.
In all the years I've followed Football, that is the single-most stupidest thing I've ever heard of.
Average attendance for baseball was about 5,000, until they started playing games at night.
Yeah, the Pat’s under Tom/Bill suck they have ONLY won 5 Superbowls. They have won the AFC title 8 times under that combo. MN and Buffalo have a much better Superbowl record.(SARC) :)
Brady takes voluntary pay cuts to keep his team competitive. He cares about winning championships, not money. He can do this because he’s married to an international supermodel who makes more money than he does (it’s true, look it up.)
Baker is a rookie who led the Browns to some wins.
I hope POS, drama KaQueen Rodgers stews all off season.
But, hey, his boyfriend can comfort him
Brain fart on my part. NFL. Although as the shields get in place NHL is getting it too.
Average NFL career is 3 years. With a 53 man roster and one third of the team out every year, add in helmets and it’s an anonymous league. Free agency is really a small part of the turn over teams go through. And a lot of that free agency “loss” is really the team deciding they don’t want the guy anymore, usually cutting them in the weeks before free agency even begins. By and large nobody really loses anybody to the cap anymore, they’ve all learned how to manage it at least that well.
You do realize none of those guys moved around because of the cap. Deion just liked to move around. AP got cut because of his injuries and suspension and now is in that “don’t want to retire” wander. Frank Gore is also on the retirement tour. And Moss got cut for discipline, then hit the retirement tour.
Will there ever be a dominant running back again? Once AP and Gore retire the active running back that’s highest up on the all time rushing list of LeSean McCoy who is thousands of yards away from them.
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