Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Yep, I think during the dawn of the TV era, I think they were counter positioned against Major League Baseball in that while decline in revenue from the gate by adding TV certainly was a hit to them, it wasn't as much of an existential hit in the way it was for Major League Baseball. The NFL was more able and willing to experiment with the new business model of TV as the primary revenue source than baseball. Yeah, certainly. I think generalizing from that, I agree with even more that this for the greater good mindset was easier to do when everyone's individual franchise was smaller. But when you've got these team that have already been around for a hundred years, like good luck talking them out of a machine that already works well. Right, there's no way even in 1949 that the Yankees would have agreed to a league first mindset.…

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