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> Teams will often threaten to leave their respective city trying to leverage new and expensive facilities in other places from their current cities. We've see
by Tiktaalik 5y ago
> Teams will often threaten to leave their respective city trying to leverage new and expensive facilities in other places from their current cities.
We've seen this happen time and time again.
I wonder how viable government regulation around this would be, to effectively ban the concept of moving a sports club by making the barriers to moving so high that no one would ever want to do it unless the team was in genuine financial distress.
- browserman 5y agoThere have occasionally been (completely wishful) proposals in the U.S. to have a team's IP (the name, logos, record, etc, basically the whole team's 'identity') belong to a city or a public corporation representing the region they draw their fanbase from.