As nuts as placing an NFL team in London?
Because THAT is happening
Some of you have no basic concept about soccer.
Soccer clubs are not franchises like in America. These teams play for the city where they are based at. They can’t and will never, ever move.
Franchises vs media markets. Someone is telling us that the MLS is not in the top 25 tv markets. Again that same someone is wrong.
Here is for everyone to see:
New York (#1) – 2 teams
Los Angeles (#2) – 2 teams
Chicago (#3)
Dallas-Fort Worth (#4)
Philadelphia (#5)
Houston (#6)
Atlanta (#7)
Washington, D.C. (Hagerstown) (#8)
Boston (Manchester) (#9)
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose (#10)
Tampa-St. Petersburg (Sarasota) (#11) = 2.2M’s to 5M’s if you include Polk County that is also part of the Orlando media market
Phoenix (Prescott) (#12) = 2.2M’s
Seattle-Tacoma (#13)
Detroit (#14) = 1.8M
Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne (#15) = No NFL franchise
Minneapolis-St. Paul (#16)
Denver (#17)
Miami-Fort Lauderdale (#18)
Cleveland-Akron (Canton) (#19) – 1.5M
Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto (#20) – No NFL franchise
Charlotte (#21)
Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville) (#22) = 1.1M
Portland, OR (#23) = No NFL franchise
St. Louis (#24) = No NFL franchise
Indianapolis (#25) = 1.1M
Nashville (#26)
Pittsburgh (#27) = 1.1M
Salt Lake City (#28) = No NFL franchise
Baltimore (#29) = 1.2M
San Diego (#30) = No NFL franchise
Canada
1. Toronto, ON 6,202,225
2. Montreal, QC 4,291,732
3. Vancouver, BC 2,642,825
MLS is indeed very well positioned. Again who would ever doubt that? We know who. One more time the MLS franchise map is almost a carbon copy of the NFL. Garber the MLS commissioner comes from…the NFL. He was put in place by the MLS/NFL owners. I will bet every single day on an NFL owner investing into the MLS than any coogfans poster that has no clues about the soccer media markets or how the league has evolved.
MLS isn’t in the Phoenix, Tampa, Detroit, Cleveland, or Sacramento markets, AS I SAID.
They are also not in San Antonio.
And instead are in some relatively small markets like Columbus and Austin.
MLS is definitely missing out on some larger markets.
Not really.
There are NFL markets that lack MLS teams, and vice-versa. Also, there are no NFL teams in Toronto, Vancouver, or Montreal.
Mods why do you allow trolls on Coogfans?
Since when did stating facts constitute “trolling?”
It’s just a debate. Feel free to opt out of it if you’d like.
That’s not happening. Already bad enough they added an extra game to the regular season.
Those aren’t small markets Law. There is a reason the SEC invited tu. Austin is a growing, booming market! Good NIL opportunities there.
Columbus is #35.
Austin is #34.
All the while there are 11-20 markets being neglected, not to mention #31 San Antonio.
As I said…MISSED opportunities.
UT got invited to the SEC not because of the market, but rather, because of their BRAND SIZE, which is among the three or four largest in college football (#1 according to at least one source I read).
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I posted the above facts. It includes every market where the MLS is. Clearly the MLS is positioned as they want to be positioned. MLS expansion franchises are going fast and the waiting list looks like every major city in the U.S.A and Canada wants one.
Let’s just say that if they are positioned where they want….then the MLS finals rankings suggest that that strategy isn’t working.
lol no it’s not. The logistics simply don’t work out. It’s why the Jaguars just signed a new thirty year lease to stay in Jacksonville.
And that nonsense aside, the Premier League couldn’t relocate teams to the US even if they wanted to. Their system doesn’t work like that. You’d basically have to establish a new club at the semipro level and convince the EFL to let you in, and then run hundreds of millions of dollars in the red for like a decade while you worked your way through the pyramid.
Both leagues will eventually settle on just playing a handful of games overseas every year.
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Yeah. Well they already have preseason games here in the summer (yes, it’s preseason).
Serie A has the Italian Super Cup played in Riyadh. It wouldn’t shock me to see the Champions League final being played here in the U.S. SoFi Stadium would be an excellent venue.
You know what’s wrong with the MLS in the US? The season is confusing to the average sports fan. It makes sense in other countries, since it’s basically the only sports they have. But playing for this cup, or that cup, really waters down the season. And with the big three sports all staking claim on the seasons for the US geographic climate, its hard to keep up with MLS. That’s my opinion.
My son who has researched and written about the rise and growth of soccer in the US describes the rapid expansion of MLS franchises as a type of Ponzi scheme that may collapse in on itself in time with the newest owners being left to hold the bag. There are so many new multi-millionaires due the stock market, real estate, and crypto that want to be “team owners” and they see the MLS as a quick way.
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Go ahead and post what your son wrote so we can have a better idea about his Ponzi scheme analysis.
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Deadspin | Is MLS A Ponzi Scheme?
Here is a link that says the same thing.
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the MLS should become establish a promotion/relegation system…those last place matches become super interesting in those leagues lol
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The owners would never go for it.
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