PREDICTION: Few years later you will be making another video on similar topic .. this time instead of comparison to European "Soccer" Leagues ... you will be comparing IPL and you will be explaining why American Sport League growth slowed and meanwhile IPL saw exponential growth
4:01 The Giants haven't won in the last decade. They last won in the 2011-2012 season. The Eagles have won in the last decade in the 2017-2018 season so you need to fix your graphic. 4:05 Video evidence of the Eagles Super Bowl.
The title of this video is inaccurate at best and misleading at worst.You're basically suggesting that very rich bureaucrats are the measure of success in a socialist economy. There are 32 ownership groups in the NFL and THOUSANDS of players. Why would you analyze the wealth of a few dozen billionaires instead of the wealth that flows down to the thousands of players (or the citizens that subsidize their stadiums)? You described the European soccer leagues as hypercapitalist because of how much they spend on the players. The more useful analysis would have been a comparison of the NFLPA as a collective bargaining unit to the systems or institutions that exist for other leagues.
At the end of the day it's about business, that's why their industry is so big compare to european. It's crazy how 1 country can owned the whole continent.
A very interesting point he made though was that NFL is so popular because there aren't that many games a season. F1 needs to understand that and know that having 25+ races a season reduces the magic and spectacle of each race
The 2 minute warning existed before television. It was created because in the early NFL, there was no game clock visible to the fans or players. The 2 minute warning was the only way for the teams to know if the half was almost over.
Also I think it's very good for the game. Forced timeout at the end of the game or before the half is massive. College football doesn't have it and it's a shame imo
Also, the video didn’t say the 2 minute was created for commercials..it said it was maintained for the advertisement commercials. That makes sense, by that point the 2 minute warning wasn’t needed like it use to be needed but it was financially beneficial to keep it
@@gregorymoisan6854I don’t think that’s a good reason to have a 2 minute warning. Why not just have a 1 minute and 4 minute warning as well? It’s just a random rule when looking at it through todays context (in the past players couldn’t see the time left) but which serves as a financially beneficial rule to the nfl
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson cus 2 minutes is simply what works the best. 1 minute is too late and 4 minutes is too early. 2 min is the sweetspot. And yes it benefits the NFL but it also benefits the quality of the game so win win
Blame the locality's sheepish bureaucracies for that. If anything, good on the owners for finding a way to hold cities hostage for millions in funding and tax breaks.
I also think regional sports networks dominating NBA and MLB rights has hurt viewership and potential TV revenue. Most teams have an RSN that limits viewership to people with one or two cable companies or a dysfunctional streaming site with a high subscription fee. A lot of NFL games are on channels that both people with and without cable can watch because they're OTA, meaning more viewers and higher paying ad spots
Very much this. MLB and NBA chased those RSN dollars thinking people would keep paying for cable to watch. Now the RSNs are going bankrupt and dragging them down with them.
It's a huge reason why viewership is so much higher in the NFL. A $10 antenna gives you access to a majority of NFL games at no monthly cost. In any other sport you miss most of it without a subscription of some kind
One problem that isn't mentioned is the global nature of football. American football has one real professional league with a couple of real minor Spring leagues. There are 37 professional soccer leagues in Europe alone. They all started independently and in competition with each other. If the PL instigated a draft and a cap, the best players would just leave for somewhere else and the PL would lose status. The NFL doesn't need to worry about that.
@261i7 you know I'm English right? And I live less than 30 miles from 4 of the biggest football teams in the world? I've also been to both PL games and NFL games in America. They both have their upsides and downsides, but I suspect NFL fans have a better time of being a fan than do PL fans.
@261i7 if you're after a genuine answer, I'll give you one. If you can accept the rather obvious fact that football fans like watching football, and NFL fans like watching NFL then IMO their experience is better. In over 30 years, only 7 teams have won the PL and actually only 4 teams have won 27 of them. Worse than that, only another 3 teams have genuinely challenged for a title. That is 10 title challengers out of 50 clubs that have been in the PL. In comparison, 16 NFL teams have won and another 9 made a Superbowl in the same period. And the PL is one of the better leagues in this respect (look at Spain, France, Germany, Scotland etc). Then you have the games itself. If you're an NFL fan of a local team, all of your games home and away are on free-to-air TV in your region. Yes there are a lot of adverts, but I'm not sure they'd rather pay for Sky Sports, TNT Sports and Prime Video every month instead to still not watch all the games. Then there are the games, which are a whole day experience with tailgate parties etc. The atmosphere is jovial with almost no animosity between fans. In the PL, the atmosphere is often dominated by negativity and vitriol. I've been at games where the away end has just spent the whole game spouting abuse. There are advantages to the PL, more games and competitions etc but overall it's too much like groundhog day.
This is such a great video. I study Sports Economics, and the amount of times that I hear analysis mention anything other than competition it drives me mad. So great to see this kind of content.
The TV rights being equally split as well as the salary caps are a must for European soccer. The UK already has some sort of equal split of the TV revenue which enabled them to be the biggest and best football league. In Portugal we lack behind. Only 5 teams ever won the league and two of them only won once. The others won 19, 30 and 38 times. Sporting Porto and Benfica respectively
@261i7false. Germany, England, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and Japan are into American football. There is even a European American football league that is already catching steam.
Soccer was an English term. It stood for association football to distinguish it from ruby 'football'. It was popularised by prep school boys - so really Soccer is a very English term
Awesome video. Love the mix up of sports and business. Few video suggestions: Maybe cover companies fighting for control in sport like Nike vs Adidas? Do a video on Tennis and how the top players dominate the earnings and why it’s incredibly hard to make it. Take about the atp tour redistributing prize money. Maybe do another video on Rugby and how it’s collapsing. Love the channel
@@Peterigepan I follow every top 5 European league and they are very entertaining. But none of them are as competitive and even as the NFL. Wayyy too top heavy and title races are rarely that exciting.
But only if you have a team in that league. What if you're an aspiring team in the Championship wanting to go up. Can't put a price on the emotion of being promoted or escaping relegation
Speaking of salary caps, I would love to see how the NHL having it harmed some smaller market teams or specifically, most Canadian teams. I’ve always heard that the weak Canadian dollar and implementing a salary cap typically doesn’t go well (I assume this is an exception with teams like the Maple Leafs and the Canadiens).
The main problem with Canadian NHL teams are that the owners have almost no incentives to be competitive. It’s not to say they don’t like winning, of course they do, but at the end of the day they win regardless of the standings. If you look at the average attendance when a Canadian team is bad compared to good, it’s almost the same. Compare that with a team like Carolina which struggled with attendance for years and only got it back with good play. The correlation between on-ice success and revenue increase only exists for less hockey-centric markets.
What I noticed is that in order for a sports league to completely get the kind of revenue results the NFL has gotten. The sport has to be insanely popular in the geographic area that the league is operating in. That is why the NFL has been booming. It is also a strong part of the reason the IPL has succeeded. Cricket is more or less a religion
But Europeans and South Americans love football more than Americans could ever love nfl… literally all you need to do is watch some videos comparing fan chants and it becomes night and day
@adamcolyer2799 my bad, bro. I didn't explain my point well. I meant that for the NFL’S kind of economic system to actually work, that extreme passion for the sport has to be there. An example of this is the U.S. actually, they don't love basketball, baseball, and hockey as much as American football. Hence, the ridiculous financial value of the NFL. India's IPL is also very valuable because of India's crazy love for Cricket .
@@kiweping5 I guess what he is saying, is you can really only have 1 wife Europeans love football to death. But because they love football to death, are they really going head over heels about handball, or waterpolo? Sure those are great sports, and its a great time to watch them. But are we going out in droves to buy handball jerseys?
@@danielobiagbaoso7676 You've got cause and effect the wrong way around. The NFL was a distant #2 behind the MLB, "America's pastime" before they went another way. It's only since the salary cap was introduced in 1995 did its popularity explode. Seems like people like unpredictabilty, excitement and every team having a chance to win. The way the NFL is run, its economic system created that extreme passion for the sport, not the other way around. It wasn't always used to be the most popular sport.
While the nfl is the most popular in America. Sports like baseball and basketball still compete with football in other aspects such as youth participation, regional viewing, salaries, etc. and it’s those other sports that have helped each other by consistently looking for improvement. If football was the only popular sport in America it would not be as entertaining, as they would not have any direct competitors. initially, the nfl was chasing mlb for Americas top sport and mlb did little to evolve. Now the nfl knows the threat that one day those sports could do the same. I believe they all work off each other to create a better product knowing that the other is working to get to that #1 spot. And the USA is so big that if you look at the countries geography there are states and regions where baseball and basketball are more popular than football. So while yes Americas love football, it’s can easily be swayed over time. Americans once loved baseball far more than they cared for football
This was a great video that shifted my perspective as a lifelong soccer player/fan. I would still like to burrow down and explore some of the more nuanced implications of the European clubs being so intertwined with their communities and how something that is supposed to be so community-driven can become "hyper-capitalist." I think maybe the socialist vs capitalist narrative paints over the more human aspects of what is happening. What I mean by this is, I wonder if their ought to be some analysis of the influx of capital into these European leagues and how maybe it is a problem of incompatibility and poor regulation?.. hence the massive protests in response to the Super League. And what role does television play in the destruction of amateurism? You could tie in college football and the paying of college athletes into that question. To me, it's no longer open vs closed because those small clubs in Europe already existed. There was nothing comparable in the history of the NFL (I don't think). So the more powerful analysis might be on the death of amateurism and how that plays into narratives of capitalism vs socialism and community vs franchise and the nature of spectacular television vs supporting your local club? Follow the money, sure. But what are the broader structures feeding into people's perception. On a personal level, professionalism makes me feel like there is no point in personally progressing through my sport because I can't be paid for it, therefore it is not worth my time. Just some thoughts.
It's the competetive nature of the NFL that's appealing to me as a European. Regardless of soccer league, you can always rank it by power: England #1, Spain #2, Italy or Germany #3 and so on. The big clubs are always competing for the biggest trophy, and the national leagues always gets won by the same 3 teams, or in some cases the same team. Over and over and over again. That's something extremely rare in the NFL. Patriots was a dynasty, but the last season they were awful. The Detroit Lions used to be the joke of the league, now they might go all the way to the Super Bowl for the first time in history. That's what's great about the NFL. Every season, every team has a shot. Every team has the same salary cap to work with, regardless of how much money they got in the bank. It's actually brilliant.
Sure, but you are looking only at recent years. Chelsea dominated for 10 years, but now it looks like they are going back to their status as a 'middling' club. Man City have the money and the manager, but at some point Pep will go - will they sink like Man U? At the start of the Premier League there was talk of the 'big 5' dominating. That was Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs and Aston Villa. Two of those have never won the PL, and Villa went through a rough time until recently.
You could wonder about how competitive it is as its still a closed league: there's no way any other than the 'monopoly' clubs can join. If you could make a distinction between 'entertainment and sports' and 'competition and sports', European leagues would more qualify for the latter than the former. The NFL is the other way around
@@rogink Do you seriously believe Chelsea will become a midtable club? Two seasons from now they will be back on the Top 6 places. It's also hilarious when people mention the Premier League while completely ignoring that, for the majority of european leagues, it's always a fight between three teams at most. Just look at countries like Portugal, Spain, Germany, Russia, Turkey, Greece, Scotland... I could go on for days.
@@joaofigueiras1106my go to example is the Bundesliga. 11 years straight of domination and it was a crisis last year because Bayern wasn’t winning hard enough. Leverkusen is having a Cinderella run right now, but we all know the clock will strike twelves soon enough because the system is rigged against them from the very start.
The game design is what truly makes the NFL successful and all they’ve had to do over the past 50 years is keep there spots on top. Regular ad breaks, more frequent highlight plays, hidden strategies, more diverse play styles, easy to track stats, being a weekly activity and pacing allows the NFL to reach a wider audience with a better viewing experience.
@@gmailalt6928Canada, Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, Germany, England, Russia and Japan are now beginning to watch American football. You are just in denial.
I always find the discussion about “which is sport is bigger” very interesting. People tend to focus on viewership, and yet American football is far more profitable than other sports with far more viewers.
Lol, that's not how it works, buddy. The NFL literally has a monopoly. There's no other competitive league to watch, so they have high revenue as a league. But as a sport it is low compared to football (soccer) which has a lot of competing leagues splitting the revenue but overall the sport is the highest revenue generating by far.
We don't want sports to be profitable lol. Commercialization ruins everything. European football supporters are actively working against the Americanization of the sport.
@@albinjohnsson2511and yet American sports leagues are more interesting than the premier league. The amount of parity is insane. Anyone can win it on any given year. Not just the same 4 teams
I think the constant breaks in football make it conducive for tv ads, but soccer only really has halftime to air ads. Edit: by ads I’m talking about commercial breaks…
One fun little fact is that all of this nearly didn't happen, as at the turn of the 20th centaury the most popular global sport was Rugby, and would remain so until after WW2. But as there was a factional divide over professionalism within the game it spilt, and the Union code would not 'open' their code until 1995, and so not really do anything to commercialese the sport. The other code, League, while professional, was the smaller of the two and was basically excluded from some places, like the south of England. If they had agreed on being professional instead of splitting over the issue, it is entirely likely that both Europe and North America could have had the same sport as the most popular.
Rugby was hugely popular but too violent and was threatened with being banned if they didn't change the rules to be safer. Thus we started on the path to what we now know is Gridiron or American football.
Americans like to reinvent / modify existing sports only they care about or are good at. American Throwoccasionallykickegg vs. Rugby Union , Baseball vs. Cricket , Basketball. The English like to codify and export their sports -- Association Football , Cricket , Rugby Union , Field Hockey , Tennis , Golf -- while barely winning trophies in their "own" sports. So far only one FIFA World Cup , one Cricket World Cup & one Rugby World Cup. still not a single Field Hockey World Cup. The US however completely dominates Gridiron Egggame , Baseball & Basketball for example.
The addition of the salary cap has made American football much more entertaining to watch than European football in my opinion. I love my team (Bayern Munich). But man, it gets old watching them and other rich teams in other European leagues win the title every single year since they can just buy the best players and call it a day.
I've been increasingly falling out of love with Association Football because of this uncompetitiveness and because of sportswashing. The sport desperately needs some sort of revenue sharing to ensure its long-term success. I'd love to see something like a soft salary cap where the richest Premier League teams, for example, send money down the pyramid. Unfortunately, it's likelier we'll see a closed super league where the richest teams just share money with each other. Indeed, the new Champions League format is basically the "super league by stealth", if not a completely closed league, yet.
Americans see this all the time in Baseball so we're familiar with the feeling. The MLB has no salary cap - it's not uncommon for one player on a wealthy team to have a salary higher than the entire payrolls of the poorest teams. The current largest contract outranks 8 team salaries
@@Rextraordinaire I'm gonna only half-agree on this, because MLB is chock-full of cheap ownership that is fine with coasting off the shared revenue generated by a successful sports league. The lack of a salary cap isn't the issue, its the lack of a salary base.
@@DIAC1987 that's a good point and leagues with a salary floor use it to curb tanking. I remember a year or 2 ago the Chicago Bears were several million under the floor and were purposely giving players front-loaded contracts to get within range
The NFL is also the most popular league in the richest country in the world, along with there being a relatively low amount of teams in it compared to the population. If the English premier league scaled up its teams up with its population to the USA, thered be close to 140 teams in it so each NFL team can command a higher population
Very true. College football is probably the closest thing to an American equivalent. Especially with the addition of NIL. Would be interested in seeing a similar dissection.
hmm ... meanwhile India is now has 3rd largest GDP (PPP) and fastest growing .. and largest population (4.5x USA) and IPL has only 10 teams .. all games played within span of only 2 months approx. so imagine the scale of growth possibility
@@scyber_avatar that is very true, especially because it is a developing country so many of it's citizens will be gaining disposable income which will really add value to the teams there
@@joeym5243 Funny thing is .. now some Franchise team owners of IPL are so rich .. that they own franchise teams in leagues of other nations too ... including Major League Cricket (MLC) in USA 🙂
a big factor for the NFL's success is that there are no other professional leagues (at least none that matter). you have minor leagues in most other US sports, you have some popular baseball and basketball leagues outside of the US and in soccer you have multiple top tier national leagues in europe plus lower tier leagues that still draw lots of viewers. the 2nd league in german soccer has an average attendance of 28k, in england even 5th tier teams have thousands of fans at each game. meanwhile anybody in the world who wants to watch football goes for the NFL
what's the point when they'll get related the next season, and even if they somehow manage to stay up they'll just float around the bottom half before eventually being relegated. A super league would have been a net positive for European football but the fans are too reactionary
@@AbdiHassan-uz3wg You will probably change your tune when MLS starts outspending the EPL because it's making more money while having fewer fans. (To be clear, I'm not saying this is a good thing necessarily, but it does seem inevitable.)
Can you cover the 2012 Football season? (The year of underdog comebacks) that saw Chelsea win the champions league, City win the Epl and Dortmund win the Bundesliga. How each of those teams had to overcome adversity and win at the very last minute in dramatic fashion. The journey they all took to get in that position. And the effects that season had on the footballing landscape going forward.
Chelsea were owned by an Russian oil oligarch that bought their way tp success. Manchester City did the exact same, but on a grander scale since they're owned by Qatar. Dortmund is now relegated to Bayern's youth academy, they can only sell players.
@@NoCluYT and all of those clubs rose to challenge the status quo. If it wasn't for them we'd be watching united win it's 30th Pl trophy and bayern... Well. Bayern would probably still be as dominant. But you get the idea. Plus it's not like the old big clubs weren't already using their wealth to dominate. These clubs just found ways to compete and win even when the whole system was set up to prevent newer teams for ever achieving more than just being also rans.
A soccer football league won't work as well as the NFL has for the simple reason that its too late. There is already 100s of massive teams in Europe nowadays and fans prefer to see their teams face the rivals they've had for decades. It is also important to note that soccer teams are based far closer to each other as they are split up by countries and in the biggest cities.
The Super League madde a new format that can still work in that way, but English fans would rather watch Man City win everything every season while paying for a ton of subscriptions
@@dym6464 its a curse for cricket. Carribbean Cricketers are more interested in making money in IPL than to play with west indies Indian Audience have overhyped T20, making Indian team weak in other segments Other sports have no chance BCCI is even more corrupt I miss good old days, of ODI, Ashes, Test (Real Cricket)
@@akshit318 most hilarious thing is that even awards are commericalised Over ends --------> Ads began. Ceat tyres Strategic bs Upstox prayer of the match Old Yes Bank big sixes
Fantastic video Sam! If you’re looking for content for future videos, it might be worth investigating WHY EPL fans revolted against the super league. The idea of a meritocracy is really important to PL fans and having no relegation was a big deal for us!
Would love you to do a video on the Australian Football League (AFL). Awesome backstory that traces its league origins to the 1850s , has been modelled on the NFL system for the last 40 years, and attracts the fourth most attendance of any league in the world and rising.
I am just amazed by IPL looking at the stats, while NFL was started in 1920 103 years ago is at 17 Billion, IPL was started in 2008 still it managed 13 Billion very close.
@@benedictcase4290 Its not like American Football introduced in US in 1920s either .. its there since 19th century ... infact Cricket has older history in USA than it
It’s about technology. If our cricket league was started in 1947, we wouldn’t have grown this much until we got access to tv and internet. Due to this modern world benifits, ipl grew much faster
One thing that wasn't really mentioned here is that the NFL treats its teams as these franchises/brands. Whereas in football, at least up until now, our clubs are more linked socially to the cities and its people. That's one of the reasons why i think this closed system is highly resisted here. I do think football across Europe needs some sort of salary cap system, though, because it really is getting ridiculous.
What you're describing is actually very similar to the College Football/Basketball system we have now. The other college sports don't make money, but the few that do they've now created an unregulated pay to win system (to put it roughly). The colleges are all socially linked to cities and the culture of the region, which has been slowly cut down in recent years. in the US, the mini associations (conferences in our case) were regional and created a unique atmosphere depending on the region of the country. Now that they're all merging due to money, the identities are getting lost.
Fascinating! Sounds a lot like NFL is socialism benefiting the owners over players (workers) while European soccer leagues are capitalism benefiting the players (workers) over owners! The background history lesson was amazing to learn. I always wondered how they went in different directions
Another league that does a very similar thing is the Australian Football League. It's a far smaller market so it isn't exactly as profitable as the NFL, but the changes of a closed league, salary cap and player draft, along with every club being fan membership owned, makes the league one of, if not the most even leagues in the world, with almost every club having either a premiership or a period near the top in the last decade or so. In fact, just this year, we're seeing the closest season, possibly ever, with almost 3 quarters of the teams in contention for the finals series, with second place down to 11th on the ladder separated by 2 games. It's incredibly hard to predict who will even make it to finals this year, incredibly exciting.
Great video. I wonder what the money would be like if u evaluated the whole FA Pyramid vs NFL, rather than Prem vs NFL. I think that would be more of an accurate comparison of the systems bc the Prem has to support the lower leagues w their revenue.
@@Wolky324 it’s not the same league system comparison (closed league vs merit-based league). While its not technically professional, adding CFB would definitely be interesting to see where it ranks
I come from Switzerland and I prefer to say soccer to avoid ambiguity. The correct name however is "association football". In fact the term "football" could once refer to "rugby football"
You should do an episode on the fact that there's a Law in England that prohibits the live broadcasting of all Football matches between 2:45pm to 5:15pm on Saturdays. This time is considered the "Traditional Time Slot" as almost every game on a weekend amongst all tiers of English Football are played at 3pm. The thought being that TV audiences wouldn't attend games in person.
I say Johnny's poll about Search Party and I was like "Why is he asking this?" First off, I like the video. 2nd Off I probably wasn't going to look for Search Party until I saw the poll but I enjoy all your videos. 3rdly I can see from the fall off in the views why he was taking the poll. I hope you guys get more views. I like the channel.
The relegation part is crucial to understanding football leagues around the world. It is the worst it could happen sportingly to a club. It is unimaginable to think of a closed league. The backlash, as it happened with the super european league, would be huge. Really nice video.
@@mattbray_studio Its all about money. no matter how you look at it. Open or closed its all money. Unlike Association Football, every team in the NFL is worth billions, and has the money to be able to participate on an equal level. Chelsea and Manchester united buy ever good player and never get relegated, Manchester city bought their way to a champions cup, Munich has been 1st in Bundesliga for over a Decade, Real Madrid and Barcelona own LaLiga. Meanwhile lower teams have to suffer through relegation to these absolute giants. Meanwhile the NFL draft allows teams like the Houston Texans to go from dead last to being one of the best teams, winning their division and beating the wild card game. Also, you lose drafting position if you purposely throw the game, so it's not that easy to get 1st draft.
@@mattbray_studio.. at the end fans want high-skilled play and entertainment high-skilled play happens when there is players get access to good salary, modern training and infra ... all of that possible only when more money in sport high entertainment also possible when more money in sport
I enjoyed your video but would like to point out some things which did not get enough emphasis (in my opinion): 1. Soccer did not come out of the owners themselves per se. They were heavily local clubs with very strong community grassroot support. Even today, they were never as owner-dominated as american teams are (NFL, NBA, etc). Furthermore, even that is mostly valid for british soccer clubs. Other European clubs are even less beholden to owners (when they even exist) and more dependent on their members. 2. The size of the league is important but it seems to me you don't really give it the importance it needs. 16 games (previously 15, if I am not mistaken) is a factor of 5 less than what the NBA offers. Same goes for the playoffs. An NBA team needs to win 16 games to be champion. An NFL team can make do with 3. The stakes are higher. 3. I don't particularly enjoy the comment that american leagues are more "socialist". That's like calling the medieval courts "socialist" and saying the dukes and counts and so on were "equals". Or that the members of an exclusive club with 100kUSD entry fee are socialist because they have equal standing. They may be equal, but you have to be rich to enter and the barrier is quite high. I cannot create a club with my friends and slowly climb the ranks. I can only be very rich, get a city to pay for a stadium for me and then apply to enter, moment when the league will decide if I am rich enough and if they will get rich enough by allowing me. European leagues are therefore more akin to a free market where few restrictions exist but the barriers to entry are few. You just have to start at the bottom.
yeah i really struggled with the comment that the NFL is socialist, and the european leagues as hyper capitalist. The plans for the european super league had absolutely nothing to do with socialism, and far more to do with hyper capitalism. The NFL and proposed ESL are hyper capitalist with a rigged market, the european leagues are more like free market capitalism.
Regarding your third point: I think he was trying to say that the Nfl as a closed system has socialist parts. They all work together towards a common goal and split their rewards evenly. Of course the gatekeeping plays a huge role in this success but if you just focus on the already active players you could say the NFL is a socialist construct.
@@devoarco absolutely. But it looks socialist only when inside the club. Well, we both agree. And in any case looks like the socialist countries built before. They are like USSR's Politburo, the elite where they are equals, but much above anyone else. So in that sense... yeah, socialist 🤣
@@devoarcoYup they have socialist traits from revenue sharing to a salary cap (which was created to *reduce* labour costs and not *improve* the competitiveness of the league) very socialist principles for the most capitalistic country in the world And this is even before what they do to states when they decide after 25 years they want a new shiny stadium
You have got to make a video about how the GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association - Ireland's Gaelic Sports) became the largest amateur sporting organisation in the world. Originally it came from people who wanted to revive these sports while under British rule, and it became a central part of restoring Irish heritage and the independence movement. They are now the most popular sports in the country and with Ireland's large diaspora, it is played across the world by people of all backgrounds. Just last week in the Connacht Football Championship, New York hosted Mayo while London played at home to Galway. Many of those players are American or English-born. Now the GAA is a national institution used to spread Irish soft power in a cultural and political context. You're wearing a Lahinch Surf top from County Clare, as a Clareman all I can say is - take a look at the GAA, it's going to surprise you.
Promotion/relegation is a part of football. It ensures the leagues are a meritocracy and stops teams, and owners, from coasting. You can't close a league with promotion and relegation as the fans won't accept it
Yeah, but a draft means that bad teams can become better, so you can always can compete. Look at the texans: Dead last for almost the entire season but got a new rookie QB and changed their coaching, won their division and beat the wild card.
@@epicow_1973I don’t think an individual player in soccer is as valuable as quarterback is in football so a draft wouldn’t yield as big of a change for soccer teams. I actually think a draft for soccer would be more similar to baseball where there’s a lot more development needed for each player and even after all that the guy only pitches 1/5 days or only hits 3-4 times
nonsense. no teams can coast for more than half a season or so because it is very bad press and can lead to loss in revenue. yes, deliberately making your team bad to get a highly-rated young player in the upcoming draft is occasionally a problem, but it's better than having only 1-2 teams dominate a league indefinitely, which is what happens in most association football leagues around the world. it produces a much more boring product, as the outcome of any given game is usually not in much doubt. clinging to old rules simply because they've been around for a long time is stupid.
@@MC-be5gg the MLS has a draft and it works big time. Also, I think that an individual soccer player is more valuable than a football player. A QB doesnt play for the defense or the special teams, and for a really good portion of those plays they just handoff to a Running back. Not to mention they have to be backed up by a legion of coaches, playcallers, and Offense linemen, every single play. Meanwhile an Association football player plays usually for offense and defense, and doesnt have a whole team & coaching staff backing them up (at least not like it is in the NFL), and his individual effort is generally more backed up.
European football leagues are far from meritocracies, that why a handful of teams can dominate for years. And why big teams that are trash are saved from relegation because of their deep pockets.
Well, it's great for the owners. Also, it is interesting how a lot of owners (mostly NFL owners) are purchasing European football teams backing up the European Superleague thing, to enforce American sports ideas into European football.
@@mktf5582 I'm talking about leagues. You need to think about that again when clubs like City, Bayern and others always dominate leagues. You can have your own biases, but stop saying current europeans leagues are that better than americans leagues.
Your forgot to mention the importance of NCAA and how college sports contribute the professional leagues. The equivalent in Europe would be an academy team of each professional teams, but nobody watches and cares about that. Throughout college unto professional leagues, you get to watch many prospects growing up, getting drafted, and becoming stars on national TV. That's why NFL draft is as important and popular as in-season games. In Europe, you just hear some young player in a smaller team from a smaller league gets traded to bigger team, only seeing the professional side of story.
You forgot one thing,Premier league are selling it's tv rights globaly(in France,Italy,Germany,USA and so on) and there NFL dosen't have the same reach,but thanks to the streams I can watch NFL as well 😊
@@russelljones2281 Its only valuable for the owners of those clubs, not the fans. Doesnt give them an advantage over any one else either since its a closed league.
@@russelljones2281 If they are more valuable that doesn't mean they are bigger. Sorry my man but Patriots and Chiefs aren't bigger then Real Madrid and Barcelona. NFL teams are big in USA and that is all. Pat Mahones can easily go to any European, African or Asian city and he wouldn't be recognised while Messi and Ronaldo are known everywhere.
Wow!! That's a very detailed explanation on why the NFL and the Indian IPL earn more than the soccer leagues. Thank you for sharing this crucial information brother.
I think it would be interesting if you looked into Australian football. (It's a completely different sport! - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u_SqfNNfhmM.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Football_League ) Our major league, the AFL, has been around longer than the NFL, and it's system is very similar to the NFL, with a fixed amount of teams in the league, the player draft based on how a team finished the previous season, and so many more elements of the league. I would love to see your take on the changes of the league over time, and compare it to other sporting leagues, too!
The European Super League may still happen but i think the essence & excitement of soccer is that it has the danger of relegation. Yes it probably makes teams hold back to playing all out but it adds a whole other dimension & jeopardy that makes the league more exciting. As a leicester fan i certainly wish there were more spending restrictions, especially at the top & to restrict the gap between the various levels. But us winning the title and going down later is what makes soccer so great, it's a whole other form of anguish that you just don't necessarily get in american leagues tbh
Spending restrictions in Football would only work if it was implemented worldwide, which would be difficult. The Premier League attracts players cos it has the highest wages. Before it was Spain and Italy. So players always follow the money. Even if they tried it in Europe they'd probably move to Saudi or wherever.
As a season ticket holder of a major PL club and a diehard NFL fan, i have to admit the NFL puts out a far better product for fans. Set backs like ads and timeouts no longer effect me. The only thing stopping me from calling the NFL my #1 sport is if the off season wasnt so long.
No it doesn’t put out a better product at all? Could you imagine if every time the ball goes out of play a short advert plays, or a full ad break happens every time a goal is scored. You disgust me and you’re clearly not s season ticket holder
@@gmailalt6928 Most commercial breaks are placed during timeouts, in between quarters, or when there's a change of possession. There's no such thing as getting a short ad each time the ball goes out of play. You've clearly never watched a full NFL game lol
@gmailalt6928 which isn't that accurate to the nfl. Ads will not play simply whenever the ball goes out of play, only when a long period of time goes by, which only really happens during scoring plays, timeouts and injuries. You guys always exaggerate the amount of ads in the nfl, it really isn't bad at all and football in the end is a way better product than soccer
@@mech-x-xavious What you on about, I’ve tried multiple times to get into the NFL and it is almost every time a play is made it cuts to adverts 😂 in actual football this only happens at half time, and never after a goal is scored. How on earth is it a better product to? Do you not think it wouldn’t be far less popular than actual football if it was a better product😂
@gmailalt6928 that's ridiculous. A play is a single down. It's impossible that they play an ad after every down. Maybe you're watching bad games where the teams are constantly punting on 4th down, but a decent football game has solid 7-12 minute intervals of uninterrupted action. It really isn't bad at all. As for why it isn't more popular, the rest of the world simply hasnt grown up with it and thus doesn't appreciate it. I didn't grow up with soccer, so I don't see how 90 minutes of aimless running with occasional scoring attempts is any fun. If anything, I'd appreciate commercials in soccer to give a break from the nothingness that constantly goes on. But in football, every play is crucial, every play can lead to a great loss or gain of yards, every play could lead to a score. Football is simply a superior sport to soccer as a spectator.
Something Similar was adapted by the League second to the NFL in that chart aka the IPL. Right now the league is far bigger than the Teams in it but slowly even the Teams will be bigger
Soccer does not own the word 'football'. There are seven major football codes that are most popular form of football in one place or another : Rugby Union, Rugby League, American Football, Canadian Football, Gaelic Football, Australian Rules Football and Association Football. Rugby union is actually the oldest among all of these.
@@NuncaSeMeOcurreUnNik Then come with facts to challenge his argument. However, you'll find it hard to dispute that association football has the only claim to football. It's also why the word soccer exists. First it was English blokes in the 1880s taking association and making it "assoccer" which later became simply "soccer". It took another 40 years before the United States used soccer regularly to describe association football.
@@corgg2 football is a sport you play with a ball and your foot, while Australian, Gaelic, Canadian and American football are sports you play with a ball and mainly with your hands. So it's quite logical to call soccer just football and quite dumb to call the other sports football. And that's why Australians, Americans, Canadians and Irish says this kind of bullshit: because they are dumb.
Not sure if this is true or not, but I feel you were greatly inspired by Jon Bois and/or Vox. Or is it just me? By the way, this is an outstanding video.
Really great video! It was great to see an explanation of how the NFL became the more dominant sport in the US and how the NFL is the wealthiest sports league in the world. Is there any chance that you might do a video about hockey/NHL? It would be interesting to see how come it isn't more popular in the US and how come the NHL is the poorest sports league in the US. I would think that more people would like hockey, as it is fast paced and intense.
The NFL's biggest advantage is that of the 4 main US sports it has by far the fewest regular season games so all their games can be easily aired on broadcast TV. While some games are being split up on various streaming services now they are all nationally available and not particular expensive. No overpriced RSN's that have blacked out games most of the time like the MLB has killing interest.
Love the video. Kindly make a video on the Rise of T20 Leagues in the World. Now Every major Cricket playing Country has it's own T20 League. IPL, PSL ,BBL , SA20, BPL etc. How these leagues make money. Are their teams Profitable. As Recently CVC Capital bought an IPL Team & Glazers of Manchester United bought a Cricket Team in UAE T20 League (ILT20). PSL 🇵🇰 will also sell two new teams in 2025.
and sometimes in American football@@ftmws293 we do use our feet. Sometimes for 3 points, sometimes for 1! It's all very clear once you dig a little deeper! /s
Bad for players maybe but it's great for fans. As a small market fan myself, it's awesome that my team isn't just trampled every year by the richest teams
@@AC-im4hi until your team leaves for another city. and fans need to pay much more. also, i don't think you can get tickets for less than 20$ in any NFL stadium, but you can get them at most european soccer clubs (unless it's the premier league)
@@NR-fd9wv you can at some stadiums. And so what? theres only 17 nfl games in a regular season, compared to the hundreds that soccer or baseball teams play per year. Thats why baseball tickers are also so cheap.
have been watching NFL, IPL and EPL, I have to admit having salary caps increases the competitiveness and adds so much to the game rather than teams having unlimited amount of money to spend. NFL and IPL teams are more unpredictable and any team can win the championship which makes it more interesting while EPL and Spanish leagues, same four teams are always in the contest of winning the whole thing.
@261i7 there are 7 different winners in 15 years out of 10 teams. Mumbai Indians and CSK are most successful coz they have the best captains of that format. In cricket, captain matters a lot just like in NFL quarterback matters a lot. In soccer, captain are mere rubber stamp.
@261i7 are you 12 year old? In NFL and cricket, captain and quarterback have the same level of responsibility as managers in football albeit litttle different. and stop replying every 5 seconds.
@261i7 great! the video isn't talking about the popularity of the sport if you pay attention. You don't have to tell me football is the most popular sport, everyone on the planet knows it.
Great video. As someone who's lived in England my entire life, I love how any team can come into the Premier League for example when I was a kid my home town team Crystal Palace were in the second division(championship) but in my teens there were promoted to the Premier League and now I can go see the best players in the world. The way American Football have done it is also super smart but most likely it was the only way because of all the logistics that comes with American football. Imagine having more than 1000 clubs/franchises competing in the NFL, it wouldn't work. We have more than 1000 clubs in England alone but having a closed league with be impossible. I guarantee the super league wouldn't work for this exact reason. The Indian Premier League however is the more likely to take over the NFL in my lifetime as Cricket can be structured that way.
I only watch my the NFL whenever my favorite team plays, or the Super Bowl game. Commercials take halfthe game time. Players stand around for a good 30-40 seconds waiting for the play call. It has its moments, but the commercials really kill it.
One thing the NBA doesn't do that the NFL does is revenue share. There's a reason the Golden State Warriors are the third most valuable franchise and the Lakers (most popular NBA team) are 15th. Those who follow the sport know it became an issue recently and led to drastic salary cap changes
