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RE: Breaking away, the English experience
(05-29-2014 12:21 PM)TomThumb Wrote:  
(05-28-2014 06:09 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  The creation of the Premier League turned it into a more American style pro sports league...just with promotion and relegation still attached.

I find European soccer way more crass and commercialized than American pro sports these days.

American pro sports is downright socialist and quaint compared to the Europeans.

Over Memorial Day Weekend, I watched part of a game between Ethiad and Azerbaijan. I mean, we make fun of once-a-year bowl games with stupid corporate sponsors, but in Europe they sell the team's jersey to the highest bidder!

And the MLS has followed that route which I find disgusting. No way I'm ever going to cheer for my local MLS team which sports a walking billboard for a pyramid scheme.

And let's not even talk about the owners of some of those European clubs...

I find it amusing that Europe home of social welfare is home to almost complete free market capitalism in sports while in the US we'd be just as horrified if the NFL were run that way as we would be to a social welfare state
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