 dogmaXYZPremium
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Boulder City, NV
kudos:1 | reply to The Dv8or
Re: The 10 highest-earning American athletes + My bad. I hand transcribed the list from the referenced link. Shaq makes $15M in endorsements. Fixed.
With respect to team payrolls decreasing, I don't think so. The marquee professional sports products [NFL/MLB/NBA/NASCAR] look to be recession resistant. I wouldn't count arena Football or Pro beach Volleyball and other 2nd/3rd tier sports entertainment products. Thy simply have not built the celebrities needed.
See this for some detailed NBA current payroll and future salary commitment status:
»hoopshype.com/salaries.htm |
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 The Dv8orJust call me Dong Suck Oh, M.D.Premium
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Denver, CO | said by dogma:The marquee professional sports products [NFL/MLB/NBA/NASCAR] look to be recession resistant. SO SO SO not the case! The NFL laid off a number of front office staff. Tom Hicks' fortune is in the shitter, and he needs to sell off the Rangers. There's the other examples I gave earlier. NASCAR has lost major sponsorship deals, and with GM in the shitter, they're looking to make a deal with a foreign engine maker. The Detroit Tigers lost their 2nd largest sponsor. And thats just off the top of my head.
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 hardflipMindfieldPremium
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Andover, MA | said by The Dv8or:said by dogma:The marquee professional sports products [NFL/MLB/NBA/NASCAR] look to be recession resistant. SO SO SO not the case! The NFL laid off a number of front office staff. Tom Hicks' fortune is in the shitter, and he needs to sell off the Rangers. There's the other examples I gave earlier. NASCAR has lost major sponsorship deals, and with GM in the shitter, they're looking to make a deal with a foreign engine maker. The Detroit Tigers lost their 2nd largest sponsor. And thats just off the top of my head. This is true, although you've seen an impact on the NFL, NBA and NHL, I think the economy really got bad during or right before their seasons where contracts were largely already in place. I think this coming season you will see a huge impact which is more in line with what MLB has been seeing...
As for Kobe, for a long time he was marketing poison, it's just in the last year or two he has started to come out of it.
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The Dv8orJust call me Dong Suck Oh, M.D.Premium
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Denver, CO | The impact will be less on the NBA, NHL, and NFL than the MLB because of the salary caps in place, but there will be an effect.
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hardflipMindfieldPremium
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Andover, MA | said by The Dv8or:The impact will be less on the NBA, NHL, and NFL than the MLB because of the salary caps in place, but there will be an effect. Maybe the larger discrepancies in projected players salaries may not be as severe but in terms of drops in attendance or ad revenue it should be similar.
You see a lot of deals around the league for a particular game on a particular night or just a general freezing or dropping of ticket prices in MLB. I think you will see similar signs in NBA, NFL and NHL this next year as a whole that things are worse.
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