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Originally Posted by Seahawk
This is interesting:
Those aren’t great numbers for three-letter broadcast TV. That said, and as noted by Sports TV Ratings, NBC’s audience for spring football was larger than its Premier League number
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My theory on the PL having poor numbers is NBC jerking around the viewing audience. They got everyone hooked around 2013/4 and were showing matches on NBCSN, USA, CNBC, NBC and on certain days all across the entire NBC platform. Then they came up with some NBC Gold pay garbage. Now it is Peacock. They do stupid ****e like putting the commentary on Peacock after the match or putting top matches on Peacock.
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Originally Posted by MikeSid
Nope, but the players do it for rent and ego.
I stayed at a cheap roadside hotel in Eastern Washington and met a few players. They lived in the hotel and had a meal allowance.
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They do similar in England for players in lower tiers. A friend of mine back in the day wasn't even close to good enough to play in big league but was offered a lower tier contract for football (soccer) and the club was going to find him work to subsidize.