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Originally Posted by Goody
Perennially good teams are because the top players usually don't jump around until the point they lose their jobs.
Its not so bad that the Steelers are good for so many years in a row as long as the reason isn't because they keep buying the top 5% to 10% talent away from other teams.
If the NLF was like the MLB, the New York Giants/Jets, or Chicago Bears would already have added Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Troy Palomalu and Adrian Peterson to their teams a couple years back.
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Except, again, the revenue sources in the NFL are completely different from those in MLB. If you took the salary cap away, the Giants and Jets would do worse, because their revenues are actually in the bottom half of the league. Local markets just don't matter in the slightest in the NFL, which is why it doesn't make a lick of sense to compare its financial system to MLB's. You really need to compare the NBA or NHL to MLB if you want to look at financial issues and solutions.