Ben Gilbert: evaluation

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…Interesting, that makes a lot of sense. Because the existence of this merger now causes one of the league ownership rules to be in violation, which is no two teams can be in the same media market. Well, we now have a problem and we need to compensate you for that. I think the Giants actually got more because Joe Namath was the other one in their city. What you also start to see because of this deal is the real modernization of the NFL. They decided that anyone with less than a 50,000 seat stadium needs to change that. They said that for what football has become after this merger, modern NFL in America, that's not a suitable place to play football anymore. You either need to build a new stadium or expand your stadium. And then the other final thing that is a consolation prize for the AFL is that they actually got to bring their records over. Whereas the AFC, I don't think they did. I don't think those counted as NFL records. I did find this is linked in the show notes in our sources. I kept reading about the NFL records and the NFL rule book and I was like, does this exist? Or is this like theoretical? Every year the NFL publishes a 1000 page PDF of all of the historical everything, all the scores, all the games. Oh, that's awesome.…

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