David Rosenthal: evaluation

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…The NFL is control the message. And that's also reflective of the sports themselves, right? NFL players wear helmets, basketball players don't wear helmet. That's little stuff, but it doesn't matter as a business, NFL's fine. They're totally fine. Yep, while we're contrasting leagues, there's this pretty interesting thing that I've been thinking about, which is this cooperative capitalist communism thing that the NFL did. It was really good at creating parody among teams to be the most competitive, but let's take it to the level of the players.Interestingly enough, the NFL has been the best of any of the leagues at creating the narrowest band of player compensation in the same philosophy that they applied to the league competition. Now, of course, is nowhere near equal pay among players. Yes, it's a bummer that while Aaron Rodgers makes $50 million a year, there's a long tail of players that only play one to three years making league minimum and then turnout, which I think is mid single digit millions of lifetime compensation from football.…

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