October 10th, 2003, 01:19 AM
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Re: OT: why football is better than American football
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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
Well, money talks and bull doody walks. Show me a soccer team with an 80 million dollar payroll. Show me a soccer team that Forbes values at .98 Billion dollars. That $980,000,000.00 for you Brits. Show me any team other than Football that has sold out 85,000 seats through 2038.
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So what ? You have one league with about 50 teams(sorry, don't remember exact number ) in 150M people market. In Europe, there are 30+ leagues with THOUSANDS of teams competing for about the same money. No wonder there is no such monopoly .
In fact, in 2-3 years superleague may emerge if top football clubs get their way with UEFA . I hope it will never happen. Football is a people game still.
If American-style sport businees prevail, we will see Barselona moving to Turin, because of the LOW tax break for a new stadium 
Can you imagine this ? Just read Thermo' post again and get to grip that it is all about money folks, not about national pride or any such nonsense. Just pay, you suckers  Or we will move Dodgers back to NY
[ October 10, 2003, 00:24: Message edited by: oleg ]
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