Not even internationally I think Brand recognition sure merchandise probably But in the end of the day America can sold out Europe biggest stadiums NBA can't The NFL make more money and it's worth more So like the NBA it's really beating the NFL internationally on what? Preseason Tours?

Also nfl games are starting to be in diffrnent countries but nba has way more international icons

Also if u don't live in the US you can still have fun watching the superbowl but the nba finals are harder because outsiders have to keep up with atleast 4 games

The two leagues have different approaches, the NBA focuses on expanding globally, while the NFL puts more emphasis on maintaining their popularity in the US, so I don’t think surpassing the NFL in the US is what the NBA cares about at all, so this video is kinda pointless

@@JJC_T When Basketball reach soccer lever popularity internationaly, is going to be game over for NFL,

Same I always thought basketball was way bigger

Globally is not even close

As I am non american as well I agree about the general popularity of basketball. but did you ever watched a game of NBA or do you watch some compliation and highlist on youtube?

Wait till you hear about football or as us Americans call it here soccer

@@rkeogh3467America is obsessed with football bc it’s a single day event on Sundays.

Mock the format all you want but then explain why NFL viewership has remained steady and even grown a little bit while NBA viewership has declined.

@@unc54 Nba ratings declined? Actually they only gather ratings from the Usa but outside the us nobody watches football well American football because the real football(soccer) is their main sport followed by basketball and baseball, which are vastly more popular than the Nfl if we are talking about worldwide.

The NBA ratings suck!! Not global basketball.. I like global basketball but the NBA sux ass

It'll decline eventually.

It's 60 minutes of play.. not 15

and thats way more admirable than just being the most popular domestically. the nfl will never fw the nba in terms of international popularity, because you can only play american football in the us. Basketball is played all over the world.

@@young_fenix Why are you sounding defensive, I never said one was better than the other. But also I don’t know…those Brits sure do love the NFL. And Canada already has Canadian football (which is pretty similar but it came first). There’s potential there. I mean, there is.

@@regalcartoon3952 yeah lol i just fw the nba heavy lol, my bad

@@young_fenix Nah you’re good. I’m a huge American football fan myself, so I get it. I mean, I wasn’t being biased here. But I can be pretty biased towards American football over other sports. Kind of hard not to, you know? 😂

@@regalcartoon3952 yeah very true

That's not even true though. Germany and the UK have already established a strong NFL presence and those are 2 of the 3 biggest economies in Europe....lo and behold they are also 2 of the 3 biggest populaces. But as it stands the NBA has been stagnating severely for about a decade in the US, they are in danger of falling away. Btw, did you know that the World Series is still more popular than the NBA Finals? Basketball might not even be more popular than baseball still.

@Scott B the problem with "football" is simple: their father rugby 🏉 exists. I probably underestimate the impact of the NFL, but i believe that, internationally, basketball will always be more popular than American football 🏈 (that is another thing: for American football to succeed, I believe the need to seriously rebrand its name: after all, internationally, another sport is called football ⚽️

@@ulisesvilasanchez1996 That's probably true that basketball as a sport will remain more popular (it is safer, cheaper to get into, etc) but that doesn't guarantee the NBA will be over the NFL. Europe has a lot of competitive popular leagues that overshadow the NBA there. NFL doesn't have that. You're probably likely to see the NFL try something like "NFL Europe" again (which is why the NFL is big in Germany where many NFL Europe teams were from when it existed) with a rebranded name for the sport more than the NFL rebranding its name. But you might be right that a rebrand would do them better internationally.

@@scottb3034 That's a crazy fact that I did not know. I love baseball, but the monotony is excruciating at times, and it's the kind of sport I definitely love to play more than watch. Football is opposite though, and there's a large appeal with the variety in it, the action, the intensity, and the stakes. Those aspects make the game seem surreal, which is why it's so useful to keep people at bay and not questioning the severe corruption of the government. Anyways, that fact you gave is wild. I imagine it can't be by an insane margin, but definitely not to "close either".

@@hihunter7 it's a couple billion between MLB and NBA. the gap between football and MLB is 5. Baseball is also the 2nd most attended sport in the US. Baseball has the 2nd most valuable teams although the average value of an NBA team is more (this means the NBA is more consistent across the league but teams like the Yankees and red sox rival some NFL teams in value but also have some very unvaluable teams). Average salary of the MLB is higher than all leagues but the NBA. Baseball has the most successful minor league in sports. And yeah, as mentioned the World Series outdraws the Finals almost annually (jordan's tenure flipped that on its head a few times). Also saw some data that says New York, LA, Chicago, Houston and Philly local markets (the 5 biggest in the US) are massively skewed toward baseball viewership too. Baseball just does a poor job marketing itself and its stars to make it seem like they are falling behind. Plus as you said they have some issues with excitement. But they are working on it.

Great take

The nfl is not popular in the slightest, what world are you living in?

@@Mdksupreme1 I’m saying in the US. Which it is. But the NBA is more popular and is more international than the NFL

Isn't it better when the margins of error are bigger? Basketball is the best sport in terms of "it's not over until it's over"

nfl is also a lot slower and there isn't really much going on lol basketball is constant action

This might be the dumbest comment of 2024 so far😂😂😂 go back to the drawing board with this one

As someone who watches both sports so intensely, it may seem that way because NFL Football is a lot slower than NBA basketball, so it's easier to make out those game changing plays , but that's definitely not the case, basketball is a game of runs, and is way more momentum based, so it doesn't stop, however 1 play can change the entire landscape of the game, nba plays are way more climactic, where as NFL plays a lot of things have to go right for u to win a game, your quarterback can have an excellent passing game or your receiver can be cooking the defense, but if the defense falls short it can cause a loss of the entire team despite the quarterback having nothing to with that If you stop to think about it some of the biggest most impactful players in sport are in basketball, Lebron's block on Iguadola, Kobe's lob to Shaq, Ray Allen's 3, Jordan's push shot in the finals, magics baby hook, and so many more. You can even hear it with all of the emotions in the commentators

The last sentence summarizes why the NFL is so popular here in America and why it will always be king here.

People don't play American football in the rest of the World because the rest of the World plays rugby and rugby is also violent and dangerous.

I mean we just talking in the US nfl is the more popular sport in the US than the nba. The NBA is more superstar driven with mid rivalries no dedicated fanbase we see fans be fans of teams because there favorite player plays there. Also long regular season in today's league you don't know if the superstars are playing or not and the lack of important regular season games also no matter how big of a nba fan you are you can name the division where teams play for. Shorter season with December football being important for teams who can't win there division. Rivalries are still hot like cowboys vs eagles or steelers vs ravens tons more. Also it won't be long for the nfl to become popular outside US.

NBA owns Christmas but was beat by 20 million views but yeah NBA is more popular fs👌🏾

Nfl is thinking of expanding internationally tho which would definitely grow its worldwide popularity

The NBA is more popular on a global scale, in the US though the NFL gets more regular season and playoff ratings and the only time the NBA Finals ever had ratings comparable to the Super Bowl was in the 97 Finals during Jordan's era since then the Finals don't compare to the Super Bowl.

​@@kinglightning5256 exactly in fact Chris Broussard and Rob Parker said this on their show, the NBA is super star driven these days most NBA fans are fans of a certain player rather than a whole team while the NFL has star players the teams as a whole is what keeps the ratings up Cowboys fans are gonna watch them play no matter what player isn't playing and the same for many other teams.

You’re not winning the championship if you’re a 5th seed or lower, the 95 Rockets are the only exception. Your team HAS to be a 4th seed or higher and most like it’s mostly a top 3 seed winning it all

@@Grievous_ yeah but there’s 82 games so you can always cover your mistakes. You can lose 10+ games in the NBA and be a 1 seed. To do that in the NFL you have to basically go undefeated

Nba has fantasy but it ain’t as fun as nfl fantasy.

The nba can somewhat replicate 2 and 3, I agree on you with 1 tho, the nba needs to lower the amount of games to 30

@@bothwayscdqNah I need Curry to get as many 3’s as he can, so once he retires then I guess they can lower the games

You also gotta add that people spend their week planning tailgating and escaping the sadness of their lives at work to watch their favorite team play

@@Grievous_ Curry's record will be broken 100% because he was injured a lot in his early career and didnt shoot as many 3's in the early 2010's. Like even someone like Trae Young will break it if he stays healthy and plays 15+ years

The NBA still hasn't even surpassed the MLB yet, don't hold your breath on passing the NFL unless they are shut down over safety concerns. And the NBA is facing a ratings conundrum that they haven't solved yet. MLS isn't close either.

MLS needs to worry about the EPL

@@greg2502 the EPL smokes every American sport combined so dont drag it into the convo

@@neynmarrrrr The NBA is on parmwith the EPL fanboy

@@greg2502fuck no it is not lmfaooo

And barrier's aka height

You're more or less correct on that. The NBA has a massive worldwide following, with tons of international players making strides in the league. Guys like Yao Ming and Dirk Nowitzki definitely helped spread basketball's popularity across the world. The NFL, meanwhile, is extremely popular here in the US, with niche followings in the UK and Germany. As far as I know, Gridiron football in general is only really popular in the US, Canada, and Australia, with each country playing its own version of it. That said, NFL revenue numbers far outstrip any other sports league in the world because of how much it's commercialized. Games have something like 16 ad breaks per match. I personally think American football is extremely boring to watch, but most of my fellow Americans disagree xD. My favorite sports to watch are actual football and basketball.

@@arthropod-doctorI agree with everything you said and especially the fact of finding football boring to watch. In my humble opinion I think its quite undeniably the most overrated sport of all time, even though I myself played during middle school

It also growing in Germany

@@tdjkhazard4522 I imagine it's a lot more fun to play than it is to watch. I thoroughly enjoyed playing baseball with my friend back when I was younger, but watching an MLB game bores me like little else can

Number of games is the number 1 reason it's most popular. To be a fan of a team all you need to do is put the TV on at 1pm on Sundays. Most people even then don't sit and watch every play

This the dumbest argument ever when comparing to the NFL😂😂😂

@@cheeseballs9579 I mean kinda but 82 games is still a lot like cut it by 10 games and maybe change some of the early play off games to best of 5 instead of 7.

@@tylionn what’s the issue? NBA is the best basketball league in the world. They aren’t in competition with the nfl

You can't be serious lol NFL players are definitely seen as celebrities, the more well known ones

Nailed it especially with the nba all star games I feel like kevin hart is an nba player at this point

Fax I used to watch more Nfl over the Nba back then, but now it’s flipped, now I find myself watching every Warriors game a season and numerous other Nba games a night, love the sport of basketball like Uncle Drew aka Kyrie Irving, it’s the most reliable sport in the world, you bounce the ball, comes right back to you. Also the Nfl is just kinda lame now, they don’t allow those big hits anymore that I saw when I first started watching, and every other play is a penalty, also i a huge Brady fan and now that he retired I simply wont have the love for the nfl that I used to have, Brady literally carried these last 4-5 nfl seasons and now that he’s gone I just don’t really care as much, but hey im still a Pats fan and im hoping we can do something here in the next few years but in terms of fan interest and intensity I just root harder and go crazier when the Warriors are on opposed to the Patriots NOW, I say “now” in all caps because when we had Brady the Pats were the team to die for but now when Brady left and evidently retired the team to die for is now the Warriors lol, I still watched every one of Brady’s games with the buccs btw and rooted so hard for them It felt like the Patriots rebranded and were renamed for those 3 years lol

This

People are also not all "big fans" of the NFL. It's on Sunday. People put it on. If a team is good they wear a dress down t shirt on Friday of the team. They follow the record because it only changes once a week. I have had this explained to me by many different casual fans. You bring up other sports and they say "Ptsh I can't keep up with all that". Look at fantasy football vs hockey. You need to quit a day job to be active in fantasy hockey. Same with the NBA. Every game has the importance of one 6th of a 17 game season.

But the nfl is trying to go global and replicate the nba strategy of recruiting prospects from other countries. What is to say the nfl becomes less American as it tries to become a global game?

@@midnightman5139 it's apples and oranges. Football is still a sport nobody cares on mainstream outside of North America and all its players are Americans. BBall is popular in some countries of Europe and Baseball is very popular in Japan, and their current superstars are all foreign players, that's not gonna happen any time soon in NFL

lebron and luca

@@tiredquokka Lebron has led the NBA to its worst ratings in years, still can't lead the NBA past the MLB in ratings or revenue. Doncic who knows...he will probably good for international growth along with jokic and giannis....but the NFL got a foothold in the UK and has had one for 40 years in Germany.

@@scottb3034 ratings are misleading. most of nba viewership come from youtube. so yea ratings are down but viewership and revenue is up. so I'd say lebron was part of growing nbas younger demographic. especially during cavs vs warriors rivalries. So ratings will definitely drop if RSN model is basically doing worse and worse each year. Lebron is the probably the main reason for higher revenue and viewership (if not the main reason he had a big impact) from about 2004-2019. luca is more of a guess but i'm not sure as of late because of how he complains during and after a play. even lebron isn't as bad as he is. also will be a spike in viewership for wemby. anyway you get my point. don't use ratings to judge how big a sport is. china has a larger viewer base than in the US. and ratings tend to skew towards people who grew up before the "internet/youtube" blowup. cause there the ones still paying for cable not the younger and wanna say larger audience (

@@scottb3034 nba has and will most likely always have a larger foothold on the international viewership than all other american sports. not sure why this was brought up.

@@tiredquokka I don't think Doncic alone will carry the brand. the crop of international stars will. Doncic might lead that group though. The younger demographic isn't the largest yet. In a decade or two they will be (because they will take over the majority of the 18-54 demographic which is the largest in television for instance) and I am sure ratings will be adjusted to included streaming views...that said while you might be right that YT kills accurate looks at viewership, that also still applies to MLB and NFL since they too also stream their games (especially the NFL whose thursday games every week are ONLY on amazon/twitch which is a massively young audience skewed platform...the NFL is actually forcing their older audience to learn the tech). So while the NBA might have deceiving viewership, so does the MLB and NFL that lead them. Alternatively you can look at revenues of the leagues and MLB and the NFL are the two biggest singular leagues in the world in revenue earned (2nd and 3rd if you lump the soccer leagues into one big sum). Lastly going back to ratings, I will say that I had completely neglected that streaming isn't counted in ratings, so I will admit to that but I am still unsure of how will the league grew in viewership in 20 years....at the very least it's had a problem since the global crisis of 2019-20 (then again almost every sport has). Good comment.

Would be awesome but I kinda like the series

@@TheBBCSlurpee I'd say a 3 game series in the playoffs and a single elimination in the finals would draw a lot more ratings.

@@Calikid331 Less is more. I think there's too much basketball that many people struggle to follow it. Each game is also less important. Basketball could become a 20-40 game regular season and each game would be more impactful.

international 14 year old zombie hordes be like: i ain't paying none, but as a fan? count me one!!!!

Because he is American

Well said my man. Everybody knows who Jordan and Kobe are. The whole World was sad when Kobe died.

The NBA wasn't more popular in the 80s. What made the 80s so important/special is that those 80s stars you mentioned showed the league was worth watching and investing in. CBS wasn't showing the Finals live in the 1980s until 86 or 87 and was pre-empting it for other programs even. But they brought the NBA into the MLB/NFL discussion and forced the networks to show the league live. It reached its peak in the 1990s when the NBA was outdrawing the MLB in ratings (before falling behind again post-MJ) but it never seriously threatened the NFL in ratings and revenue and is also behind the MLB in revenue. I agree about the salary cap...but think the schedule allows fans to think their teams have a chance until week 8-10 (unless they are the worst team in the league). It also helps that players don't run the asylum yet in the NFL which harms the NBA product.

@@scottb3034 Like the Texans lol

@@SftSidelines mhm

These guys made another video about NBA rivalries that touches on it very well

MLB is still more popular tho China doesn’t count

What if the NFL went to flag which it’s heading because of all the injuries/CTE’s. Would it still be big?

the more injuries people see and the more people realize how the sport turns your brain into a walnut = less and less parents letting their kids play every year = less players growing up wanting to play it = less overall interest decades from now. it will always be popular to watch but what happens when the greatest athletes of the country slowly start picking basketball or soccer over football because an increasing amount of them dont find it worth it to destroy their brains for a few years on the field? especially considering how much more money NBA players make, how much longer they play on average, and how much more “power” they have within the league.

@@nomorepartiezz Baseball has experienced the biggest growth from NFL's issues....well I guess besides soccer. MLB has managed to maintain a lead on the NBA despite being a "dead sport" and "dead league".

@@scottb3034 What growth lol? The MLB is only watched by an older demographic, it will die out eventually. The NBA is only increasing in popularity, not only in America but globally also. That popularity will only increase further the more international players are coming in to the league as we're seeing now.

@@marcelo1458 The MLB is only watched by an older demographic despite outdrawing the NBA for the last 77 years on TV and in attendance AND IN REVENUE (still the 2nd richest league in the world by quite a bit)......right....... Let's also forget the humongous presence the MLB has in Latin America and the Far East....two massive demographics. MLB was the international American league before the NBA tried to break in. The NBA's ratings and revenue are dropping in the states....that is not "increasing in popularity". People don't like the disloyal, legacy hounds of this NBA generation, a lot of them hate their social justice outcries (people prefer their athletes just be athletes...if you want to be an activist then get into politics) and most of all they are bored to death of Lebron, the Warriors and the defenseless gameplay (certainly caters to the finesse Europeans that hate playing defense, hate physicality and love their superstar players)....too bad the NBA has to compete with Spanish pro leagues, Italian proleagues, Slovakian pro leagues, Croatian pro leagues, etc just for coverage in those countries. MLB and the NFL don't have to worry about that. (Giannis [and he wasn't the first one] even has said he wasn't sure he wanted to go to the NBA....some draw the NBA is if international stars prefer their home leagues). The NBA peaked with Jordan and it hasn't returned since. As I said, basketball may remain bigger in europe but the NBA doesn't have nearly the same certainty. But yes "LOL".

@@scottb3034 Who cares about what the attendance the MLB draws in the present and the past, we are talking about the future. Look at the social media following of baseball's biggest stars like A-Rod, Ohtani and Trout, they have lower counts than some NBA benchwarmers. Fact is that the MLB doesn't have a young following which will lead to it's demise in the longhaul but not presently. They'll eventually go bankrupt once the ratings plummet as soon as the boomers kick the bucket. Especially when considering that their contracts are unsustainable and their union won't accept any paycuts. The NBA's popularity in China alone is more than MLB's entire Far East and Latin American market and that's without accounting for the NBA's popularity in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia. The MLB's following in Asia is mainly centered around Japan and only a few small Carribean and Central American countries in Latin America. Secondly, I'm from Europe and I know how big the NBA is here compared to the MLB and NFL, it's not even comparable. Only Germans and a few Brits care about the NFL and no one watches the the MLB. The NBA is followed throughout Europe and the local basketball leagues are not watched much, only the Euroleague is. Thirdly, you can't account for NBA ratings in the traditional sense like you can with the MLB and NFL precisely because the older demographic of those leagues watch traditional cable and TV, whereas the more younger demographic of the NBA use legal and illegal streaming more. But still, if you account for total numbers, domestic and international then the NBA dwarfs the NFL and MLB in ratings. I do agree with you in that the general public don't care for SJW antics from athletes but that hasn't been too much of a detriment to the NBA, funny how you didn't point out that the same is occuring in the NFL as well and yet the last SB had the third highest ratings. So that point is a little overstated. Anyway, overall the NBA are in the best position going forward out of all three leagues, they have both an older and a younger demographic, the league is only getting more popular globally especially since international players are increasingly dominating the league and after the 2024 new TV deal, some top players will be earning near 90 million per season, which will subsequently make even bench players earn 40 million. The MLB with their 15 year 250 million contracts can't compete and let's not even talk about the NFL. You've got 6p per game roll players earning more than some QB's in the NFL lol. I know if I were to choose then I would be an NBA player all day rather than being tobacco-snorting fat baseball player in a damn four hour long 200 games per season dead senior citizen sport or have my brain scrambled on an unguaranteed contract within a savage sport like American football, that's for sure! But hey, to each their own.

You’re fine you’ll surpass the nhl for #4 in no time.

Who cares, America is the main character and football is its main sport 🙏

Worldwide it already is by a wide margin

Basketball in general is bigger on a global scale, but here in the states I know more people are into football than basketball and the ones that do watch basketball don't start tuning in until the playoffs start, NFL ratings remain steady during the regular and post season.

No basketball is bigger but the NFL as a league is bigger than the NBA as a League. International fans like their own basketball leagues over the NBA with exception of following a foreign PLAYER like giannis, jokic or doncic. NFL doesn't have any leagues to compete with in its sport.

@@scottb3034 The NBA is the most basketball followed league. Internationally, it is not even close. Just like the dude said, the social media numbers are a reflection of that. The NBA might lose in the US, but it destroys the NFL when it comes to overseas ratings. The Bubble's final in 2020 was a record of almost half a billion people watching online. It flopped on US tv, but it surpassed the Superbowl numbers.

@@guizaoacc The NBA being the most followed basketball league doesn't mean jack. There could be a family with 10 followers, 4 followers follow the dad, 3 the mom and 3 the son...the dad is technically the most followed one in the family but that is still a pretty small number. Or it's is simply a product of being the biggest league. That doesn't preclude, for instance, the spanish leagues being more popular in SPAIN...and that spanish people follow that league first and foremost and the NBA is just a cursory interest. Also, citing social media means very little. It's a terrible barometer. Great, I didn't say the NFL has caught up to the NBA yet. I merely said that the foreign basketball leagues are more popular in the foreign territories and the NFL doesn't have that problem. Also that in the territories that the NFL *has* poured resourced into they've eclipsed or are breathing down the NBA's neck in popularity (AKA the 2 biggest markets/populations outside of russia in Europe--UK and Germany). If/when the NFL expands further, the NBA better be prepared or it may lose its grip on USA league dominance in europe. Not only is your comparison not analogous (the "bubble" finals did not occur at the same time as the Super Bowl--Super Bowl was pre-Pandemic, the Finals were in the autumn of the pandemic) but unless you provide numbers from an objective source I'm going to call bullshit on your claim. Or better yet, I'll just claim the Super Bowl was watched by more, it's the most watched singular event in the world every year outside of a World Cup Final (and has 1/5 of your purported finals viewership in American television viewers alone).... And that's without streaming services being counted.

... football is already miles ahead of NFL

@@neynmarrrrrlol there’s a “Europ*an” spamming in the comment section ☕️

Come on football/soccer is the most popular sport in the World. Is NFL even in top 10?

Basketball is bigger internationally. NFL is bigger than the NBA internationally because the NFL has no competition.

True

It was Kevin Garnett you noob

what about the future genration z and alpha

MLB still owns the NBA's postseason and total revenue too.

Even the MLB is getting somewhat hot

People tune not the for game but for the half time performance in super bowl

@@angelopillai2553that’s not exactly true. super bowl gets a lot of views because in the USA and Canada people have super bowl parties where a bunch of people go to one persons house and they watch the super bowl together. they watch the whole thing including the halftime show. super bowl parties are a big reason the super bowl gets many views. you cannot have a party to watch the final game in the NBA because you don’t know which game will be the last game in the finals, unless it goes to game 7. also the nfl is a better league for women to watch because women tend to enjoy talking to each other and socializing more and that’s easy to do when football is on because of the slow pace. with basketball you have to be constantly watching or else you will miss something.

Superbowl isn't PPV. What planet are you from?

Fair and balanced take. FWIW, the NBA is struggling to pass the MLB in America but internationally it seems to sell better. The NBA needs to get on this World Cup though because the NFL has a hold of Germany and is seeping into your homeland. Anyway, Cheers.

@@scottb3034 The other thing is over in Europe we are used to 'Leagues' with cup competitions on the side. The NFL the 17 games are short enough where every game matters and is crucial in deciding your seeding/Homefield. Sure, in the NBA at least every team plays each other home and away but we can't grasp the concept of games not really mattering, to the point where a top player just won't play for multiple games a year because 1 game has so little meaning and the prize for having the best record is nothing, in fact, it brings further derision if you then don't win the title. The NBA could become popular with regards to the playoffs - although the whole 7 game series will take some adjustment, but the NBA regular season is unlikely to ever become mainstream popular over here (Europe). A competitive world cup every game would matter and the playoffs are the only hope.

*outside of Jokic how many STARS are outside the top 20 picks?* currently, only Jimmy Butler comes to mind (he was selecten no. 30 in the draft of 2011)

@@KC1996LFC Excellent, excellent points that I agree with. NBA was at its most popular/liked internationally when it went Olympic with its Dream Team and the Olympic format is a lot like World Cup play with pools and then single elimination tournament. Unfortunately the NBA will never adopt that for their official league but if they sponsored a world cup it would print money and popularity in europe and allow European fans to root for their home team in the tournament instead of a native player on a random NBA team. This is something ripe to exploit and the NBA is dragging its feet for some reason. I am glad you see the value, entertainment and drama of an NFL season, but I guess that makes sense given you are a football fan of I would guess the Premier League who have a similarish premium placed on regular season and playoff games.

@@scottb3034 The Olympics are great, but right now it’s pretty much just the USA invitational. It’s only a surprise if they don’t win. An international all star team could give team USA a game, they have stars but depth is a huge problem. PG - Shai/Jamal Murray SG - Luka/Bogdanovic SF - Giannis/Wiggins PF - Lauri/Siakam/Sabonis C - Jokic/Embiid/Wemby I’m probably forgetting someone obvious It’s going in the right direction, but it will take time.