Lockout IV: One likes to believe in the freedom of hockey (Moderated: see post #2)

[NinthSpoke06]

The owners need no skill, they are money men and they are successful. As far as your MLB comparo, who are the most successful teams lately? Tigers...lots of money to put a good team on the field and fans support to make them financially successful. Yankees...same. Giants...same...Marlins...Red Sox...Rangers...Cardinals...all big teams that spend big money. You have to spend money to put out a good product, with a good product comes good fan support and good fan support means you are capable of sustaining yourself. The whole viewership and attendance being lower is something can be argued with bad economy, I bet if it was broken down by region, like Tigers being watched in Michigan, Yanks in New York, Boston, etc..viewership is roughly the same as always. People will watch a good team with good owners and management and the opposite see less support. Paying more for a team of great players makesother owners either spend more to put a better product on the field or fold. Thats basic business, make a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Giants and Tigers World Series this year was one of the least watched World Series in YEARS.

Baseball's business model of spend outrageous amounts of money on average players just isn't very interesting anymore. It also excludes the owners of small market teams from ever being successful no matter how well run they are solely because they don't have as much money to spend. It is a ridiculous concept.

Well run teams should be able to spend a limited pool of money they that are given on the right talent and be successful. Not just spend more than others because you can.

 

[NinthSpoke06]

The NFL is a smaller league with a better fanbase in a smaller area and more of their revenue sharing comes from an insanely great TV deal. If you check, you will see that the more successful teams are the teams that spend the money to put out the best product possible. Its not really the same.

The Jets would argue against that principle. The Patriots in the opposite way.

Either way, the NFL has a rule that states that teams must spend to within 99% of the cap over a 3 year period...so everyone is spending the same amount anyway.

 

[Ducks DVM]

The NFL is a smaller league with a better fanbase in a smaller area and more of their revenue sharing comes from an insanely great TV deal. If you check, you will see that the more successful teams are the teams that spend the money to put out the best product possible. Its not really the same.

The NFL has 32 teams to the 30 in the NHL, the geographical distribution is only marginally smaller because they have no Canadian teams, and they have that great tv deal at least in part BECAUSE they have parity and thus get watched everywhere. Also, nobody spends more than Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones and those two franchises are a joke as far as NFL success is concerned.

Edit - beaten to mocking the NFC L(East) by SaintPatrick33

 

[THW]

Tell that to Danny Snyder and Jerry Jones.

Do you think Jerry Jones or Daniel Snyder would not leap at the chance to run out and get the best team they could? Do you remember the Cowboys of the 90's? And those teams were fun to watch unless you hated them and you watched to see them lose.

 

[Morgoth Bauglir]

Edit - beaten to mocking the NFC L(East) by SaintPatrick33

I'm from Washington DC and a Redskins fan so I've had the misfortune of watching Danny Boy's circus for years now

 

[Morgoth Bauglir]

Do you think Jerry Jones or Daniel Snyder would not leap at the chance to run out and get the best team they could? Do you remember the Cowboys of the 90's? And those teams were fun to watch unless you hated them and you watched to see them lose.

Those Cowboys teams of the '90s were built through the draft and trades before full free-agency and then had to operate UNDER a salary-cap throughout the '90s.

 

[Fugu]

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