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> It has a terrible potential to corrupt sport That ship sailed a looping time ago. Sports teams in the US are franchises. Like McDonalds. They exist to make p
by grecy 2y ago
> It has a terrible potential to corrupt sport
That ship sailed a looping time ago.
Sports teams in the US are franchises. Like McDonalds. They exist to make profit. Lots of it.
It has nothing to do with sport.
- astrange 2y agoNothing to do with sports except for all the time and effort they put into playing games?
- to11mtm 2y agoI think one of the uglier examples was an NFL team local to me. They had one of if not the 'worst' season in the last 15 years or so and really didn't care. But a huge part of that was because the way all of the season tickets, merchandise deals, etc etc, didn't matter if the team was any good. Semi-Ironically the economics were explained by a huge fan of them; he appreciated the business savvy.
- grecy 2y agoYou should look at how other countries do professional sports. The teams are not franchises, they can not simply "buy" whatever players they want, etc.