We've seen the price for pro U.S. sports franchises skyrocket but NASCAR's fortunes have not been as good as the other sports leagues, as recently as 10 years ago we were starting to talk about maybe NASCAR as the fifth major league in the United States and nowadays no one is talking like that anymore.

Victor Matheson

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The decline can probably be explained by the fact that this was a fairly unappealing matchup, then also a boring game.

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Everyone outside of New England is tired of seeing Brady and Beli... by Victor Matheson

Everyone outside of New England is tired of seeing Brady and Belichick in the Super Bowl.

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They are still able to command higher and higher amounts of money for their advertising, because sports are one of the last things we watch live, which makes it much harder for people to avoid the commercials.

Victor Matheson

We probably aren't going to get the large increases in youth soccer participation that we did after 1994.

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There are hugely militarized zones where nobody goes unless you are a reporter or a delegate, it keeps the regulars away.

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These things become economically obsolete before they become phys... by Victor Matheson

These things become economically obsolete before they become physically obsolete.

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It’s not as if their stadium is obsolete, it just isn’t as fancy as some of these others – and they have a case of stadium envy.

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If you’re the Chargers, you don’t want to pay a full half of the money to build the stadium without getting half of the benefits from the development deal.

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You saw real issues with taxpayers piling money into stadiums for billionaire owners while simultaneously laying off teachers, firefighters, and police officers.

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