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MalabarJag · 02-07-2020, 12:12 PM

(02-07-2020, 10:54 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:
(02-07-2020, 10:39 AM)Talented Kalamari Wrote: Jacksonville is more than capable of supporting our team. Nobody wants to go to games where it’s 105 heat index and our players aren’t even trying. You’d be hard pressed to find any fan base that would stand for that. This is all about Khan’s greed and nothing more. [BLEEP] Khan.

Jacksonville is capable of supporting a team, but they cannot provide as much support as a large market, and since revenue is shared, especially the TV deal which is shared equally, the large market teams, since they bring in a lot more revenue, resent having to share equally with a small market team like Jacksonville. It's an open question as to whether small market teams will survive in a league that shares revenue, because the large market teams will accuse the small market teams of not pulling their weight financially.

There will always be teams in markets that make less than average. That's what "average" is all about. The rich teams need other teams to play, and the other teams need to be competitive, hence the revenue sharing. Teams like Dallas also make boatloads of unshared money in things such as jersey sales and local advertisement dollars. Claiming that Jacksonville is not pulling its weight is just spin to support Khan's slow creep of the team to London.

Sure, be the frog that sits in the pot hoping the warming will stop. It won't.

With every game available on TV these days, there's no need to have a local team except for the stadium experience (and my last stadium experience was pretty miserable). I guess that does imply that the loss of home games are no big deal from a fan perspective, except in how it affects the roster in the case of London. But it also implies that you can cheer for and watch any team you want.

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