Temptation
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Lol, thoughts on this?
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KingLeo10
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Nothing compares to the beautiful game - it’s the sport of the world and the masses
The SuperBowl is a commercialized glamour show with more focus on celebrities than actual gameplay
Also no doubt a City - Pool PL game gets bigger numbers than SuperBowl
Temptation
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The American guy's take on this got me thinking.
At the end of the day: What's the biggest metric of success? It's finances.
Superbowl generates more money. Even though most of that is riding on Taylor Swift and Usher's popularity and commercials every 5 minutes. Football gets so many more viewers but the revenue is relatively low.
Interesting how a sport only 1 country cares about can generate so much money.
KingLeo10
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That's a byproduct of the US being by and far the richest nation/country/empire in world history
The entire world's stock market is like 100 trillion or so - 50 trillion of that (50%) is just the US (NYSE) by itself
There's like 6 or 7 tech companies in the US that are worth 2 to 3 trillion each - aka the size of France and Germany and Italy's economies on their own
It's really a shame most Americans are clueless about football or obsessed with the discount rugby that is NFL or obsessed with funding wars and displacing governments - the Middle East sheiks would get lil bro'ed if not
jamrock
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Is line of reasoning is dumb af.
The NFL and all American sports is setup to me commercialized, they have time outs every game where, advertisers can put ads in front of the largest consumer base in the world, by revenue.
Of course they'll make more money.
If the EPL or the CL allowed as many ads the revenues would match or exceed the NFL.
The average EPL game gets at least 80m views world wide, drop a few ads every 5 minutes and watch the money rain in.
The NFL and all American sports is setup to me commercialized, they have time outs every game where, advertisers can put ads in front of the largest consumer base in the world, by revenue.
Of course they'll make more money.
If the EPL or the CL allowed as many ads the revenues would match or exceed the NFL.
The average EPL game gets at least 80m views world wide, drop a few ads every 5 minutes and watch the money rain in.
Rassvet
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Nah
Viewership would nosedive if there were ads every few minutes and average PL audience worldwide is much less affluent than NFL audience so ads wouldn't be worth as much
Messi983
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One person has died and 21 people were wounded in a shooting in Missouri at the end of the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade.
Nine children aged six to 15 with gunshot wounds are being treated at Children's Mercy Hospital, chief nursing officer Stephanie Meyer said.
Nine children aged six to 15 with gunshot wounds are being treated at Children's Mercy Hospital, chief nursing officer Stephanie Meyer said.
jamrock
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Naah you're worth
The viewership may drop but not nosedive, fans won't stop all of a sudden loving the lost popular sport in the world by a country mile because games now have ads, doesn't add up.
Note as I said in my response NFL has the biggest commercial audience by revenue in the world, so I accounted for that in my line of reason.
But that's gets out weighted by the fact that the average NFL game has around 15-17 US and maybe 20-25 worldwide viewers, average EPL around 80m, would wide, just on a wholesale level, that will make up and likely exceed NFL ad rev advantage
20-25m alone in the US and Europe watches the EPL every week, that counters the NFL affluence advantage.
Messi983
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Great pick imo, love Big Penix Energy, he's my top 2-3 QB this class.
I know they just gave all that money to Captain Kirk but he has injury concerns and they can get out of his contract after two years.
But yeah, didn't expect this.
Strange draft overall, 6 QBs in top 12 and first 14 picks all offensive players. Never happened before and probably never will again.
My Seahawks did well by staying put and pick Byron Murphy imo although I wanted to trade down (we now have a big gape until our next pick at #81) but there was probably no good trade available. Jaguars just behind us traded down to #23 and only got 2025 3rd and 4th round picks. So drafting arguably the best defensive player at #16, I will take day every day.
We reportedly also tried to trade up for Penix but price was probably to steep.
DonAK
President of FC Barcelona
I like Penix as a player, but he has his injury issues and durability concerns himself, and is also an older prospect. He's not a top 10 talent IMO.
I saw that Atlanta pointed towards Green Bay's model but both Rodgers and Love were picked in the 20s when we drafted them and not in the top 10, and both were 20/21/22 years old and sat behind HOFs.
Byron Murphy is a great pick for the Seahawks tbh. Sometimes you just gotta do the simple thing and get the best player available instead of overthinking about amassing more picks.
Messi983
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Bumping this thread.
We are almost two full weeks into the season. Falcons@Eagles still playing MNF today.
Seahawks are 2-0. Defense has shown signs of big improvements, especially in first game vs Denver. They had problems to stop Patriots run game yesterday and Hunter Henry in 1st half. OL is problematic as expected but Geno still did a great job, both DK and JSN finished with 10+ catches and 100+ yards. We missed KW although Charbonnet did have a TD but run offense never really took off.
Most surprising team so far are probably the Saints who scored 40+ points in both games. Doing that vs the Panthers (who still look to be by far the worst team in the league) is one thing but they also destroyed Dallas yesterday. Tampa is also 2-0 after beating Detroit. As are the Chargers under new HC Jim Harbaugh.
Arizona beat the shiet out of the Rams. Kyler Murray to Marvin Harrison connection already in full force.
OTOH Baltimore started 0-2 for the first time since 2015 and only second time under John Harbaugh. Nothing wrong losing against the Chiefs in opening game but didn't expect them to lose at home vs Las Vegas.
also, in injury reports Tua suffered another concussion (think it's his third in the NFL but also had one or two at Alabama IIRC) and will met doctors this week. Could be out for 8-12 weeks. At what point do you put health in first place and start thinking about ending career?
@DonAK your comment about the season so far.
We are almost two full weeks into the season. Falcons@Eagles still playing MNF today.
Seahawks are 2-0. Defense has shown signs of big improvements, especially in first game vs Denver. They had problems to stop Patriots run game yesterday and Hunter Henry in 1st half. OL is problematic as expected but Geno still did a great job, both DK and JSN finished with 10+ catches and 100+ yards. We missed KW although Charbonnet did have a TD but run offense never really took off.
Most surprising team so far are probably the Saints who scored 40+ points in both games. Doing that vs the Panthers (who still look to be by far the worst team in the league) is one thing but they also destroyed Dallas yesterday. Tampa is also 2-0 after beating Detroit. As are the Chargers under new HC Jim Harbaugh.
Arizona beat the shiet out of the Rams. Kyler Murray to Marvin Harrison connection already in full force.
OTOH Baltimore started 0-2 for the first time since 2015 and only second time under John Harbaugh. Nothing wrong losing against the Chiefs in opening game but didn't expect them to lose at home vs Las Vegas.
also, in injury reports Tua suffered another concussion (think it's his third in the NFL but also had one or two at Alabama IIRC) and will met doctors this week. Could be out for 8-12 weeks. At what point do you put health in first place and start thinking about ending career?
@DonAK your comment about the season so far.
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Messi983
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Forgot to mention this.
In one of the most stunning and compelling moves in college football history, six-time Super Bowl-winning coach Bill Belichick was named the new head coach at North Carolina on Wednesday night.
North Carolina officials said the sides agreed to a five-year deal, which was approved by the board of trustees during an emergency meeting Thursday.
Did not expect him going to college football at his age.
In one of the most stunning and compelling moves in college football history, six-time Super Bowl-winning coach Bill Belichick was named the new head coach at North Carolina on Wednesday night.
North Carolina officials said the sides agreed to a five-year deal, which was approved by the board of trustees during an emergency meeting Thursday.
Did not expect him going to college football at his age.
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