RolStoppable said:
The NFL has a salary cap and the draft. The salary cap allows each franchise to spend only a certain amount of money on player salaries. This makes it impossible for any franchise to buy up a large number of great athletes, simply because the best players will be able to get much better contracts at teams that aren't already loaded with star players. Since almost every franchise is owned by a billionaire, there are no poor teams who don't even get close to reaching the salary cap due to a lack of money. The draft lets the worst team of the previous season pick first from the pool of upcoming talents while the Super Bowl winner gets to pick last. This in conjunction with the salary cap makes it hard for teams to have consistent success. You can't buy up all the good players, you don't have access to the biggest talents. The competition in the NFL is much more dependent on management skills than football. Money is not really a factor. If the UEFA added rules that greatly diminished the weight of money in their competitions, then yes, I would probably watch club football again. There was actually a bit of hope that something like that would be implemented when Platini took the reigns, but once PSG got stuffed with money, all of those plans were dropped because Platini didn't want to hamper a French club. The biggest drawback of the American franchise system is the lack of relegation. Losing is not only without real consequences, it's actually kind of encouraged because of the draft. But that's a lesser evil than what is going on in Europe where the competition is dishonest and distorted because a bunch of billionaires are allowed to simply buy their way to trophies. |
yeah,NFL is a much more complicated sport too compared to football on/off the pitch it suits the franchise system well and of course the usa is one country
when the eu finally becomes the USE i guess we will have a "soccerbowl" too with the minor leagues made up of clubs that are left in individual states where players are bought from like a draft system
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