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Originally Posted by Goody
Its not really ironic. Its the flaw. Its the entire reason for my lamenting.
When Green Bay faces Indianapolis in the NFL....plenty want to watch.
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The NFL doesn't have markets, though. The vast majority of their money comes from national TV contracts, which pay Green Bay the same amount of money that they do New York. Tickets sales make up a miniscule part of NFL team revenue (and supply is so limited that revenues don't have much relation to on-field success) and local TV contracts (the vast majority of MLB revenue) don't exist. It's an entirely different model, and one which you can't conceivably compare with baseball's.
The NBA and NHL are far more similar to MLB in revenue streams, so it'd be worthwhile to see how well their salary caps have done in creating competitive leagues. The answer, I fear, is not very well, though.