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Originally Posted by Skipaway
"Turn down tickets" for what price is the key. Those tickets are definitely sold at high prices, and free market mechanism means the price will always raise to the degree where just enough people are turned off because of the price.
Also, is TV viewership of those games low? I wouldn't think so.
"Equal competition" doesn't help interest. Casual fans only tune in for dominating teams. American pro sports aren't generating more interest by making teams more even. They are intentionally suppress supply by limiting how many teams are out there, to ensure all existing teams can extract more money out of consumers with the limited supply, and the "equal competition" part is just an excuse to implement salary caps and what not to help the owners control cost. Suppressed cost and supply means guaranteed profit.
There are 130 teams in the Scottish football pyramid. Look at that and you know how American pro sports are set up in ways that favors the very few owners and screw all consumers.
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I did read an interesting article about the runaway finances in football (soccer) earlier, which may temper enthusiasm for that model in US sports
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/foot...cid=spartandhp