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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Did you factor in all the TV revenue that gets paid to the players?
You're making one-sided assumptions too.
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The TV revenue is utterly irrelevant to what money
you are spending on the Flames and how locally efficient that is. And I'm not assuming anything, especially not that some of the Flames income gets redistributed outside the city, and thus there is not 100% local efficiency for money you put into their coffers.
I don't think it's impossible there is some small economic stimulus to having a major sports team. However, experts have been looking for evidence and not finding it, which is usually a good indication it's not there, regardless of all the simple, but wrong, reasons why it supposedly exists.