ESPN Loses 621,000 Subscribers; Worst Month in Company History

Re:ESPN Loses 621,000 Subscribers; Worst Month in Company Hi... by seibelj on Saturday October 29, 2016 @11:59AM (#12824518)

When you are a football player, and this is what you have been training and dreaming of your entire life, making $15mil instead of $30m, or maybe $1m instead of $2m on the low end, would not make you stop playing football and start selling insurance or whatever.

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Re:ESPN Loses 621,000 Subscribers; Worst Month in Company Hi... by maxerickson on Saturday October 29, 2016 @12:01PM (#12824534)

I was simply commenting about where the money goes. Players capture a lot of the revenue, a decline in revenue will thus likely be reflected in a decline in their compensation. To your point, they can go down quite a lot and still be viable.

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Re:ESPN Loses 621,000 Subscribers; Worst Month in Company Hi... by seibelj on Saturday October 29, 2016 @12:07PM (#12824573)

Gotcha, I was just saying how I doubt it will result in worse player quality, at least not immediately.

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Re:ESPN Loses 621,000 Subscribers; Worst Month in Company Hi... by geodel on Saturday October 29, 2016 @08:07PM (#12827267)

Not player quality but maybe, just maybe extremely ostentatious lifestyle will be less visible.

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Re:ESPN Loses 621,000 Subscribers; Worst Month in Company Hi... by 36bydesign on Saturday October 29, 2016 @12:07PM (#12824570)

Well that's tragic /s

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Re:ESPN Loses 621,000 Subscribers; Worst Month in Company Hi... by Touche on Saturday October 29, 2016 @03:18PM (#12825783)

It's more about young athletes who have the choice between sports where your brain turns to mush and make half as much as you used to or other sports that are easier on the body. Look whats happened to boxing.

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