RE: Tim Tebow. Divinely Inspired.
January 18, 2012 at 3:48 am
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2012 at 3:53 am by Rokcet Scientist.)
(January 18, 2012 at 3:12 am)Minimalist Wrote: If baseball teams played only 16 games per year their ratings would be sky high, too.
Add up all the viewers over a 162 game schedule.
For that matter, The Dallas Cowboys drew under 700,000 fans while the Yankees and Phillies drew nearly 4 million.
It's apples and oranges because of number of games played and the capacity of the stadiums.
The core value of those sports markets, any sports markets, irrespective of the size of their stadiums or numbers of games played*, is their public image. It needs to be protected at all costs. That's what they do by keeping the USA's best national team out of the global competition. To keep the fairy tale alive, hiding behind a regulation that could of course be amended if they wanted. But they don't. Too risky for the image.
* Oh, and you forgot the media and seasonal multipliers there.
