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Iceeman7ll t1_ismrkcu wrote

Reply to comment by Slight_Author_8386 in [OC] Number of NFL Teams by State (based on the location of their home stadium) by Slight_Author_8386

NFL is a perfect embodiment of how a nation as big as American (see data chart about) is focusing wealth of the establishment in only half the states instead of the whole country.

I agree college football is the alternative, but that’s not professional sport in the fact that the students don’t get paid.

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JCPRuckus t1_ispdhln wrote

This is such an, "I don't understand how the world works" comment. People aren't spread evenly across the country. There are huge swathes of the country with almost no people at all, and other parts with a million people in a few square miles. You don't just put things in the middle of nowhere where there aren't enough people to justify it. You put in where there are already lots of people to use/pay for/run/enjoy/whatever it.

Compared to how much of the economy they actually account for, cities are vastly under-invested in. Cities subsidize suburbs and rural areas (if you account for where people in the suburbs actually work), and could actually do so just as much, while being nicer themselves, if people like you weren't constantly demanding mal-investment that makes the whole pie smaller for everyone.

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Skeptic_Juggernaut84 t1_ispljkw wrote

I was thinking about where they would put a team in a state like Nebraska. That state is nothing but corn fields and small towns. They don't have the extremely large cities to accommodate an NFL team. No large city means no revenue.

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BUSFULOFNUNS t1_ismtld6 wrote

** cough cough ** scholarships, free ride, pay no tuition, don't have to buy overpriced university textbooks they only use one semester, free housing ** cough ahem cough ** You're right. Students don't get paid.

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