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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Huge wads of TV money for every team will do that for you. There's no such thing as an NFL club with an internal budget.
That, and McDavid only plays on half of the rink. If that's your best player and you cater to him, your whole team is going to be flawed, even if your management is otherwise good.
True, but the bottom few markets are so small that they're at a major disadvantage. If I had to describe the Tampa, Colorado, and St. Louis markets, I would call them all ‘big enough’. They all support teams in other major-league sports. You can't say that about the likes of Columbus, Winnipeg, or alas, Calgary.
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The small market thing is just code for Canadian. Even a market like Columbus (2.2 million) is not much smaller than St. Louis (2.8 million). There are no really small markets in the states.