How the NFL used 'socialism' to get rich

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The only problem I have with the NFL is that it constantly interrupts the advertisements I'm trying to watch.

I feel a lot of this also applies to F1, and why the existing teams are so reluctant to let another new team enter

The 2 minute warning existed before television. It was created because in the early NFL, there was no game clock visible to the fans or players. The 2 minute warning was the only way for the teams to know if the half was almost over.

Let me guess, because every game is 90% ads?

Not rich enough to fund own stadiums though 😂

The thing too is that college football is like the second or third most viewed sport in America, and that not even a professional league (yet)

As a Chelsea fan, @7:09 hit a little bit too close to home...lol

The animations you and your team produce are second to none. Its so easy to understand

I also think regional sports networks dominating NBA and MLB rights has hurt viewership and potential TV revenue. Most teams have an RSN that limits viewership to people with one or two cable companies or a dysfunctional streaming site with a high subscription fee. A lot of NFL games are on channels that both people with and without cable can watch because they're OTA, meaning more viewers and higher paying ad spots

the salary cap and draft makes it much more compelling than pay-to-win European leagues

This is such a great video. I study Sports Economics, and the amount of times that I hear analysis mention anything other than competition it drives me mad. So great to see this kind of content.

I think the constant breaks in football make it conducive for tv ads, but soccer only really has halftime to air ads. Edit: by ads I’m talking about commercial breaks…

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The European Super League may still happen but i think the essence & excitement of soccer is that it has the danger of relegation. Yes it probably makes teams hold back to playing all out but it adds a whole other dimension & jeopardy that makes the league more exciting. As a leicester fan i certainly wish there were more spending restrictions, especially at the top & to restrict the gap between the various levels. But us winning the title and going down later is what makes soccer so great, it's a whole other form of anguish that you just don't necessarily get in american leagues tbh

One fun little fact is that all of this nearly didn't happen, as at the turn of the 20th centaury the most popular global sport was Rugby, and would remain so until after WW2. But as there was a factional divide over professionalism within the game it spilt, and the Union code would not 'open' their code until 1995, and so not really do anything to commercialese the sport. The other code, League, while professional, was the smaller of the two and was basically excluded from some places, like the south of England. If they had agreed on being professional instead of splitting over the issue, it is entirely likely that both Europe and North America could have had the same sport as the most popular.

The NFL is also the most popular league in the richest country in the world, along with there being a relatively low amount of teams in it compared to the population. If the English premier league scaled up its teams up with its population to the USA, thered be close to 140 teams in it so each NFL team can command a higher population