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Old 02-28-2023, 07:38 PM   #106
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The last paragraph is key. Team sports are great when the team is representing something that is meaningful to the fan. A country, school, city etc.

Made up teams don’t work.

If you want to grant golf franchises to cities, have them play home games, maybe it could work if you were very, very patient. But again there need to be reasons for the players and fans to care about winning. And LIV was designed specifically to remove that pressure from the players, it’s a series of exhibitions.
They've tried team tennis forever and it's never gotten off the ground really.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_W...mTennis_season
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