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I can't understand how NFL fans tolerate this shit. The team always ransoms the city for a new stadium and its either cough it up or like 30%-70% of your cities culture moves to some other state. The franchise always makes more money than god but never pays for the their own stadium.
I always said the cities providing the handout shoiud demand shares in the team.
So when they sell it to the next batch of mercs who offer a buck more to move the team to Schenectady, thry at least get their investment back.
TBH, I expected this game to die recently. With Las Vegas holding a team now, aren't most, if not all cities big and wealthy enough to support one set for it? You're not going to get far giving Los Angeles five teams, or trying to place a new team in Mesa, AZ because the one in Glendale, AZ is a 90-minute drive for half their catchment area.
TBH, I expected this game to die recently. With Las Vegas holding a team now, aren't most, if not all cities big and wealthy enough to support one set for it?
The restriction of each professional sport's League to 30-32 teams is a powerful limit that they will never change.
With the national population that grew over the 20th century and then continued urbanizing, there are now over 50 metro areas more populous than Buffalo, the smallest city with multiple pro sports teams (excepting New Orleans, which was larger than a few others of these pre-Katrina). Austin, Hampton Roads, Richmond, Fresno, Birmingham, Grand Rapids, and Hartford all are within the presumed capacity for a pro sports team, without having one.
Fanbases are not elastic from sport to sport, thus a city with a team in one sport can always be vying for another in a different sport. The cutoff for having multiple teams in the same sport is fairly high, with only New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago achieving this. The unchanging 32-team limit, along with the increasing number of cities since the leagues' founding that are capable of hosting one, ensures that there is a perpetuity of a reserve army of cities vying for scarce teams in competition against each other.
The question is how many of those 50 cities are "major leage ready"-- big enough suckers to toss a billion dollars at a team, and prestigious enough that they're a viable marketing play?
Even if they splashed the cash, I can't really imagine the ads for "Chicago Bears vs Fresno Knuckle-Busters." It might impact the percieved legitimacy and value of existing franchises if suddenly "lesser" cities/metro areas got on board.
Buffalo (and Green Bay) are to an extent outliers, grandfathered in from times when the economics and league structures were quite different. Would they be able to float a successful team bid today if they didn't already have one?
You're missing the point by getting into tangential semantics.
There are 43 cities that do currently have pro sports teams, 3 of which have the ability to double up. That is more than enough to make sure that there is a scarcity where each of the league's 32 teams will always have the option or at least the threat to go somewhere else. "Legitimacy" and "brand recognition" of a team have already proven to be a joke, totally manageable by the budget and monopoly of the major leagues where they can move a team around and nothing really changes.
There's a supporting point to be made about the conservative nature of American society, but if you're doubting that a new sports team could be brought into a league, you're denonstrating that point.
The main point is about the outcome of fixed supply and increased demand, not about "will people actually go to watch live sports" (spoiler alert: they will).
Bears are asking for $885 million for their next stadium too. Highway robbery
About 1/3 of the league doesn't play in the city they are named for, it will be OK.
a dying sport for a dying country
, looking forward to president xi converting the nfl to flag football