For the unaware there are two things which you need to know about the NFL: First, the league's business model is communistic as fuck. Second, the NFL is the richest and most profitable sports league in the world. By far.
And the second point is a direct consequence of the first one. You see, people in charge discovered that the best way to keep customers watching the games was to ensure that no winner was predictable, thus keeping the whole season exciting. In order to do that the NFL had to make all teams about equally strong and they did by implementing a draft system, salary cap and revenue sharing. The draft system allows the weakest teams to chose new rookies first so they get the best ones. The salary regulates how much every team is allowed to spend on players salaries. They can never go over that limit, this way big market teams can't buy off the best players from small market teams. But more importantly, since players salaries make up the biggest costs of any franchise, it doesn't allow them to overspend. And lastly there is revenue sharing. Every team gets the same amount from the TV money, which is their biggest income source. Now everyone can also compete financially on equal terms, which is important when some teams from big markets such as NY could use their monetary advantage to compensate for a weaker squad with better training infrastructure for example.
The result is that the NFL makes by far the most money out of all professional sports leagues. In fact 4 of the 5 richest sports leagues in the world operate in a socialistic model.
Now whenever you to say that socialism doesn't work and point at failed countries such as Venezuela or the USSR remerber that the reason why socialism works in sports and not in politics is because in sports the rules are enforced and corruption is combated.
>keeping people on an even playing feel to ensure proper competition That's capitalist oriented regulation, or it would be if the analogy between NFL and an entire economy wasn't retarded.
Dylan Smith
Still by far the most vievew and most profitable league in the world. Plus their biggest competitors, MLB and NBA, follow the same model.
Bentley Gonzalez
>most profitable How can you be communist and have profits?
Josiah Taylor
i especially dislike how this private for profit organization socializes the cost of it's new huge stadiums onto the local population's taxes.
inb4 hebrew professional sports team owners ...
David Martinez
SEC operates on a similar model, they pool bowl money amongst themselves. Running a sports league is a poor analogy for running a government.
Carson Anderson
This, the players are nothing more than slaves/cash cattle for the nfl
Gavin Diaz
Ants living in communal colonies prove socialism works.
Angel Peterson
Why does Jow Forums allow itself to get caught up in fundamentally stupid discussions like this?
Nicholas Morgan
>ends up in pain, broke, and with mental issues checks out
Levi Rogers
It's capitalist in a sense that the owners of the franchises want to maximize profits, but the inner economy is socialism pure. Basically the same concept as how communistic countries still need to compete in global economies.
Adrian Young
Why doesnt the guy selling peanuts make as much as the starting quarterback?
Jace Gonzalez
Are you saying that socialism only works when everyone pays massive amounts of taxes, some plain and honest in the open, and many more hidden and obfuscated, while the amount of people actually cared for is less than 0.00001% of the actual taxed population? Are you claiming socialism can only work when a small number of tasks are handled by it, while the vast majority of required tasks are handed off to a shadow economy to get its needs filled? Are you saying that socialism can only handle a small number of pre-planned events and never any random outside events? Are you saying socialism only works if you have an 80% population of slaves whose IQ is under 80?
Could you be more specific in how NFL socialism works? In the NFL, thanks to team caps, the average length of an NFL career is 2 years, and the average salary is $120K. Only star players have contracts that keep them employed for a decade of their life or more. And only star players earn more than $120K.
Please specify where the NFL meets socialistic model. Because despite team salary caps, its the same dozen of teams or so that is always in the chase to be league champion, while the other teams are never expected to be invited to the dance. That's with all the "biggest loser gets most draft picks and goes first, etc etc etc."
Oliver Hughes
Shills shilling shills. I'm convinced that only 25 percent of the posts here are from real people.
Grayson Cox
The peanut guy gets bullied and his money taken by the big boys because he doesn't enjoy socialistic regulations.
Ian Gonzalez
So the NFL is not socialist
Hunter Gutierrez
Why 28/32 teams suck every year: the post.
Carter Long
By this logic nearly every corporation is communistic. Of course it works when everyone involved has a clear, obvious common goal (i.e. make money by entertaining people). It goes to shit when you make it so all-encompassing that your only goal is some vague thing like "The common good".
Thomas Lewis
what about the stadiums being subsidised?
Angel Gutierrez
Nah didn’t read. Thread hidden.
>multi millionaire athletes and rich Jew owners >socialism
Hahahahaha
Daniel Ward
>doesn't understand what taxes get used for and why it's necessary to also provide services that are used only by a small number of people >doesn't understand that sports are competitions with NFL being the best football league >doesn't know that coaching, training and tactics exist You my friend are a massive retard.
And how did you come to that conclusion?
>By this logic nearly every corporation is communistic No you're mistaking the point of communism/socialism. It is to make people financial-wise all equally, since this boosts the economy more so than having a few rich people and many poor people. Good examples are all countries with a large middle class, the are generally doing better economically than countries with large income disparities.
