Posted on 09/23/2013 2:39:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
So his plan is to deprive the NFL from selling a valuable product and the “winners” from actually owning what they win.
Not sure what you mean. They make an awful lot of money for not being capitalists. In my lifetime Pete Rozelle, a marketing wizard, and the owners dethroned baseball and made the NFL the dominant spectator sport in America.
Taxpayer-funded stadiums, an exemption from anti-trust law, revenue-sharing, barriers to entry, a reward for doing poorly (via draft pick), and tax breaks . . . yeah, that’s capitalism all right.
The things you decry are what make the NFL so successful. A small town like Green Bay really can win the Super Bowl and they have fans all over the country. In contrast, the small market teams in baseball play at a huge disadvantage to get to a World Series and that fact depresses attendance, viewership and revenues.
I’m decrying the fact that you call it “capitalism,” nothing else.
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