mmmmsnouts
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Nothing turns a bunch of working and middle class leftists into hidebound Tories faster than someone trying to change the football in any way
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Todd Boehly. A man...who wants an all-star game.
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Whats happening in this gif?
mmmmsnouts
Player Valuation: £40m
One team ran a fake punt and the punter is trying to run for a first down, no one's really that arsed, but then a safety on the other team comes flying in and decks him short of the line to gain
Azza
Player Valuation: £80m
The problem with an 'All Star' football game is that it's supposed to be a showcase of talent in its guise in US sports. Now I don't watch NFL / NHL / MLB all star games but I do watch NBA when I can.
NBA have faced issues recently where they've had to change the format of the game and how the scoring is done to make them interesting and competitive, they've also had to give big (not ridiculous) bonuses to players to get them to play in the All Star game, players would rather take the rest / not risk injury.
Those would be massive hurdles for football on their own.
Back to the showcase element, it's very very easy to do that on a basketball court. Defense drops off, players don't put in lots of effort so it's easy for players to throw up a few half court shots or do nice dunks on a fast break etc. Football is completely different. It's very hard to artificially create a wow moment, what would happen the ref gives generous free kicks so KDB can try a 30 yard rabona free kick? Or defenders drop off so Mo Salah can try an overhead kick from the edge of the area - which of course he wouldn't try incase he got injured trying something stupid. Imagine seeing Bernado Silva doing a bunch of step overs and tricks and ghosting past a defender, but he hasn't done that because he's fooled the defender it's because the defender has put in zero effort. It would look crap and completely unnatural from a footballing perspective.
It would basically be like a glorified Soccer Aid.
NBA have faced issues recently where they've had to change the format of the game and how the scoring is done to make them interesting and competitive, they've also had to give big (not ridiculous) bonuses to players to get them to play in the All Star game, players would rather take the rest / not risk injury.
Those would be massive hurdles for football on their own.
Back to the showcase element, it's very very easy to do that on a basketball court. Defense drops off, players don't put in lots of effort so it's easy for players to throw up a few half court shots or do nice dunks on a fast break etc. Football is completely different. It's very hard to artificially create a wow moment, what would happen the ref gives generous free kicks so KDB can try a 30 yard rabona free kick? Or defenders drop off so Mo Salah can try an overhead kick from the edge of the area - which of course he wouldn't try incase he got injured trying something stupid. Imagine seeing Bernado Silva doing a bunch of step overs and tricks and ghosting past a defender, but he hasn't done that because he's fooled the defender it's because the defender has put in zero effort. It would look crap and completely unnatural from a footballing perspective.
It would basically be like a glorified Soccer Aid.
Blueclouds
Player Valuation: £35m
How would you even pick the North team? Be full of rs players
Toffeeslam
Player Valuation: £35m
They have a different sporting culture over there and stuff like this wows the locals in the US but doesn’t fly here.
They don’t have relegation or promotion so it’s francises and not a meritocracy it’s design to make money.
Plus US sports do not in general have an international calendar so plenty of spare time for sommit like this, here we got too many games already
They don’t have relegation or promotion so it’s francises and not a meritocracy it’s design to make money.
Plus US sports do not in general have an international calendar so plenty of spare time for sommit like this, here we got too many games already
mmmmsnouts
Player Valuation: £40m
It's too bad the international calendar is stuffed with Nations League now. Using a friendly to raise money for non-league might actually work.
Toffeeslam
Player Valuation: £35m
But is it a game that we would want to watch though ?
Seems like something star struck yanks would watch so how much would it really generate?
mmmmsnouts
Player Valuation: £40m
Isn't that up to you? Not my country. Boehly threw out an idea to raise money for the English non-league and instead of talking about its merits or lack thereof, you all were like THE GAME'S GONE YANK GO HOME
As a lifelong New York Mets fan, I would love this tbh ?.
Come on over, Mike Ashley
The revenue of the top 4 American sports league generates far more than the Premier League, even the NHL generates more revenue so no, that logic doesn't work unless the British league are generating more money.
Nah, no way the NHL generates more revenue than the Premier League
Toffeeslam
Player Valuation: £35m
Talking gash as usual mate
The premier league has generated €7.1bn for the 22/23 season whilst the NHL for 2022 has just reached the $5bn due to a huge increase in rights from ESPN so with the current exchange rate there is a $2bn difference in the EPL’s favour and that a conservative estimate.
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The link above suggests that the EPL’s true worth is just under $10bn which puts it roughly on a par with NBA and MLB.
For the NFL then you are talking some $17.5bn which would be just under all revenue generated by the 7 major leagues in Europe which is apt considering the size of the US is basically the size of continental Europe
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