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   Bronwyn Harris (bronwyn@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 07:58:40 JST Bronwyn Harris

   Soccer/Ted Lasso question:

   Do British football players really make this much money? They never say but for example, Colin, who is not at all one of the superstars, has a giant house and a Lamborghini!

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 07:58:37 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @Bronwyn @luis_in_brief British football is popular globally (people in Asia get up routinely at 2am to watch matches) so they can really make a ton of money beyond Europe

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     Bronwyn Harris (bronwyn@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 07:58:38 JST Bronwyn Harris

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     @luis_in_brief that is a ludicrous amount!

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 07:58:39 JST Luis Villa

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     @Bronwyn median salary in the Premier League (the top level of the sport, what Lasso's team is trying to climb into/stay in) a few years back is 3.6M UKP a year, plus endorsements: https://offthepitch.com/a/new-salary-database-premier-league-players-now-earn-twice-much-laliga-players

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 08:36:40 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @luis_in_brief @Bronwyn this reminds me of the US ambassador to singapore getting censured for his many failures, including 'trying to organize a superbowl watch party in a country that doesn't know or care about NFL'

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 08:36:41 JST Luis Villa

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     @skinnylatte @Bronwyn on the one hand, it's a lot of money; on the other hand what other group of 500 people regularly persuade two *billion* people to watch them do anything on TV? If anything you could easily make a case the players should make more (and the owners less).

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 08:38:49 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @luis_in_brief @Bronwyn noah lyles the olympics sprinter got into so much trouble by the US sports establishment for running his mouth about how no one else in the world cares about US sports. he's right tho. maybe just NBA. definitely not baseball or football

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 08:38:50 JST Luis Villa

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     @skinnylatte @Bronwyn it's pretty bonkers that the NFL is basically unwatched outside the US and still has more revenue than the Premier League.

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     Camilo (cam@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 08:46:56 JST Camilo

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     @skinnylatte @luis_in_brief @Bronwyn fwiw baseball has a huge following around the Caribbean countries and Japan but then they went and called the MLB championship the World Series.

     In terms of N. American sports with international following, I think it'd probably be basketball, then hockey, then baseball, and then nothing really worth mentioning.

     I know NASCAR and IndyCar are trying to get more international footing but they're *very* steeped in american-ness, kinda like US football, so...

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 08:05:35 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     @johnmark @luis_in_brief @skinnylatte @Bronwyn

     The NBA champ would beat any other team in a "best of 7" championship.

     But a French All-Star team would beat a US all-star team ~5 games out of 10. And France is improving faster than the US.

     The gap in US basketball fans' minds, is much greater than the gap in NBA players' NBA coaches' and NBA team owners' minds.

     If it weren't for Steph Curry going heat check mode at the end of the game, France would have won gold.

     https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qhVWl2Xlq0I

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     John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ (johnmark@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 08:05:41 JST John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️

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     @luis_in_brief @skinnylatte @Bronwyn Don't doubt that at all. I freely admit that Lyles was trolling. I'm just saying I enjoyed it the troll lol - but I do get annoyed with any pro team, and these are usually American teams, calling their champions "world champions". It always irks me. I don't doubt that an NBA champion would likely thump any other international team, but we can't actually know that if there's no competition.

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 08:05:43 JST Luis Villa

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     @johnmark @skinnylatte @Bronwyn meh? I take the semantic point; it's pretty silly in "foot"ball in particular, since no one else even really plays the game.

     But if you had a FIBA Club World Cup akin to UEFA Champion's League, does anyone really doubt the NBA titleists would be both the regular winners (by larger margins than the US wins the Olympics) and regularly the most-watched games outside the US? Among other things, NBA club teams cherry pick the rest of the world's talent.

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     John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ (johnmark@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 08:05:45 JST John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️

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     @luis_in_brief @skinnylatte @Bronwyn Yes for sure - but Noah's point was that NBA champions calling themselves "world champions" was absurd. You can argue the NBA champion is the world's best but his point stands.

     So when USA men won gold last summer they made sure to throw shade at Noah like... you happy now? lol

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 08:05:46 JST Luis Villa

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     @skinnylatte @Bronwyn basketball seems genuinely pretty internationally popular at this point? Like the Prem having all the money and therefore attracting global talent, the NBA has outsize impact, but there are leagues and players everywhere (definitely unlike baseball and “foot”ball…)