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Re:US owners find greed doesn't play well in European soccer by solidasparagus on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:02AM (#26889821)
There's only 32 NFL teams and even when the crappy ones play internationally, they draw huge crowds. And that's because it's a closed circuit so the level of play of the worst teams is much higher than the worst teams in European football. The NFL as a league is also designed to have a much higher degree of parity than European football. There are also fewer games, which increases the importance of each game. These rules are dictated by the NFL (more or less) because the goal of the league is to make the league successful by being fun to watch.

The NFL might distribute money evenly, but only among the select, limited number of teams that the NFL allows to be a part of the NFL brand.

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Re:US owners find greed doesn't play well in European soccer by martin8412 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @03:35PM (#26894383)
Of course 32 teams will be better than the literally 10 thousands of teams in European, which all have a chance of playing at the highest level, albeit not a huge chance for most of them. My local football team is part of same pyramid as CL, despite them only playing for fun. Small local teams have risen through the ranks to the best national leagues.
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Re:US owners find greed doesn't play well in European soccer by throw_nbvc1234 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:23PM (#26891744)
The "draft" plays a role in this too where the worst teams, in theory, get the best players further increasing the chance of parity. Unless those terrible teams are terrible because their management sucks and just repeatedly make terrible decisions over the years.
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