NFL

[VirtualSmitty]

Originally Posted by Stephen

It's my opinion that while each franchise has a seperate owner, the business is MLB (or NFL/NBA/NHL). You see them as a separate entity. That seem about right?

Exactly right. Each team is it's own brand and business

The minimum is always three minor league clubs. It gets cloudy after that, there are some teams that exist and compete with no major league affiliation. Minor league teams also change hands rather frequently, i've lost track myself to be honest

And just to be clear, i'm enjoying the conversation thus far. Kudos to everyone contributing constructive posts I like the back and forth and wasn't suggesting anyone was making the thread sour. I'm just surprised it has gone on as long as it has so well, on the old boards I remember a thread like this going south in a matter of hours

Oh and I pulled this from a site comparing 2010 baseball salaries and 2009 football salaries:

Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball's average salary per player in the 2010 season was $3,297,828. These numbers only encompass players on the major league roster, but all the teams in Major League Baseball also have an extensive minor league system, which would drastically reduce the average salary.

National Football League
In the 2009 National Football League season, the average player salary was $1.1 million. This number is severely skewed as there are several players on a team making a salary of around $7 million to $8 million, while a larger number make toward the league minimum. The league minimum for rookies in 2009 was $193,000.


Read more: The Average Salaries in Professional Sports

[chippewastud79]

Originally Posted by VirtualSmitty

Oh and I pulled this from a site comparing 2010 salaries:

League minimum for 2010 was $310,000 not $193,000. Maybe they were accounting for the tax man, but it would be even lower.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by VirtualSmitty

Exactly right. Each team is it's own brand and business

Which is why we have the differing viewpoints.

Originally Posted by VirtualSmitty

The minimum is always three minor league clubs. It gets cloudy after that, there are some teams that exist and compete with no major league affiliation. Minor league teams also change hands rather frequently, i've lost track myself to be honest

Right on. I thought it was like that but haven't followed minor league baseball all that closely for the past decade.

Originally Posted by VirtualSmitty

And just to be clear, i'm enjoying the conversation thus far. Kudos to everyone contributing constructive posts I like the back and forth and wasn't suggesting anyone was making the thread sour. I'm just surprised it has gone on as long as it has so well, on the old boards I remember a thread like this going south in a matter of hours

Yeah, on a sports message board that I post at from time to time, this thread would've gotten ugly, and ugly fast. Then of course Godwin's Law would've been evoked somewhere a page or so ago and that would've been the end of that.