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re: Why do Americans tolerate socialist, monopolistic sports leagues?
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:38 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:38 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Does getting drafted prevent a player from playing in another league?
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:39 pm to athenslife101
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Your basic premise that monopoly and socialism go hand and hand is wrong.
I don't think they necessarily do generally speaking.
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:40 pm to LSUTigerfaninHtown
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Does getting drafted prevent a player from playing in another league?
What other league could say, Jameis Winston, play in?
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:41 pm to Pierre
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Wrong. The NFL is the company. Dallas is the manager.
Still don't understand Congress's role in the nfl but that's too deep for tonight
The Supreme court said the NFL is 32 separate companies.
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:43 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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What other league could say, Jameis Winston, play in?
The Arena Football League, but that's irrelevant. The NFL has the right to create its own rules, regardless of whether or not it has a monopoly over the sport of football.
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:46 pm to LSUTigerfaninHtown
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The Arena Football League
that's not a viable alternative and you know it
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The NFL has the right to create its own rules, regardless of whether or not it has a monopoly over the sport of football.
#1 "The NFL", according to the Supreme Court, is not a single entity.
#2 Am I to take it that you would be okay with my engineer or lawyer hypothetical?
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:46 pm to Draconian Sanctions
I've always thought this but it makes for way better all around leagues. The ironic thing is people call soccer un-American yet the way the leagues are run in Europe is way more "American."
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:46 pm to heytigerfans
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I just want a college football player to not sign up for the draft, wait a while then sign with their hometown team
That's not how it works
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:47 pm to Draconian Sanctions
They are private businesses so they can do what they want.
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:47 pm to apfour21
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but it makes for way better all around leagues
What are you basing that on? Don't say parity because academic study after academic study have show that greater parity actually decreases fan interest.
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:47 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Because the NFL is like a live-action board game with rules in place to make it "even" amongst the competitors sitting at the table (the owners).
It's a competition.
So it's no fun to compete against a guy who can buy the best team.
It's entertainment... not the economy.
It's a competition.
So it's no fun to compete against a guy who can buy the best team.
It's entertainment... not the economy.
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:48 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Having a draft is ridiculous. I would absolutely hate it if I were a player. I would definitely try to pull an Eli Manning. I would refuse to play for a city I wouldn't want to live in.
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:49 pm to PrimeTime Money
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It's entertainment... not the economy.
It's as much a part of the economy as anything else.
You're talking about human beings not game pieces on a board. That kind of mentality is the heart of the problem.
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:50 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Your little progressive world is crumbling all around you, so you resort to making retarded threads on the MSB. You're pathetic.
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:51 pm to Sellecks Moustache
excuse me?
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:51 pm to Socratics
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Are you afraid your Spurs wont be able to complete with the Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks?
Nah, just giving DS shite
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:51 pm to Draconian Sanctions
CFL?
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:52 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Because you feel like everyone has a chance to win a championship whereas in Europe the same 4 or 5 teams always win. It's cool watching Barcelona and Real Madrid square off and I'd love to see two teams like that in the NBA go at one another. However imo it's much more interesting to watch American leagues top to bottom.
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:54 pm to apfour21
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Because you feel like everyone has a chance to win a championship whereas in Europe the same 4 or 5 teams always win. It's cool watching Barcelona and Real Madrid square off and I'd love to see two teams like that in the NBA go at one another. However imo it's much more interesting to watch American leagues top to bottom.
Go read Soccernomics, they have an entire chapter dedicated to the "parity makes it more interesting" fallacy.
Posted on 4/11/15 at 10:54 pm to Draconian Sanctions
spell check solicalist
its not socialist.
its capitalism.
its a compromise between the labor union and the billionaire boys club.
its not socialist.
its capitalism.
its a compromise between the labor union and the billionaire boys club.
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