Chapter 781： Rugby is the business

It’s a good idea to move the team away from Charlotte. The key is where to stay. If the city is not as good as Charlotte, it is better not to move.

However, the 32 NFL teams in the United States have basically covered most of the first-tier cities, and even New York has two clubs, it is impossible to accommodate the third, not to mention that there is no venue, and the thickness of the fans is also difficult to match New York. The Giant competed with the New York Jets.

However, Los Angeles can be considered. There is only one Rams team in Los Angeles. To be precise, it is still called the St. Louis Rams. The league approved to officially move back to Los Angeles after the start of the new season. Of course, the results of this team are not mentioned. It was cursed by the boss. Anyway, the team under the name of Stan Kroenke, regardless of whether it is football, basketball or rugby, has not won the championship of the league in the past ten years. It may be that he married the daughter of the Wal-Mart family. All the luck of a lifetime?

Originally, Yang Cheng had the idea of ​​the Los Angeles Rams, but right now the Panthers are a better choice. It would be better if the Panthers could be moved to Los Angeles to break their wrists with the Rams. The reason for returning to Los Angeles in one season, apart from limited diehard diehards, was almost at the same starting line as the Panthers, and Yang Cheng did not want to fight in the past.

What is the biggest advantage of Black Panther? Naturally their star quarter-pointer Cam Newton. Of course, the advantage is not his skills, but his skin color. You must know that the league’s quarter-pointer is still white. Although it’s not good to say that, it’s in Vondri In the Gram test, the performance of blacks is indeed far worse than that of whites.

So many people in North America ridicule the nature of rugby as "whites command a group of blacks to fight"!

Of course, Cam Newton's ability to stand out from a group of whites is not due to his "superior" IQ, but to the explosive talents of blacks. Cam Newton's outstanding physical quality allows him to rely on his double at critical moments. The leg runs out of murderous intent. In rugby, the sensory stimulation brought by running with the ball is far more vivid than that of a 60-ma long pass, and Cam Newton has also played the subdivision position of running quarters to the fullest.

This is why Cam Newton can attract a vote of NBA stars and rappers, most of whom are black.

Therefore, if Yang Cheng holds this trump card, if he still doesn't know how to play, it would be too stupid. As long as he arrives in Los Angeles, he is fully capable of shaping Cam Newton into the next generation of Los Angeles king after Kobe.

Finally, the car parked under the office building where the NFL league headquarters is located. Looking up, a glass curtain wall can't separate the floors. It's hard to imagine that the headquarters of a sports league is no longer a sports field, but is in the busy financial street. But like the NBA, in the final analysis, this is an interest alliance. The closer you are to capital, the faster you can earn capital.

I didn’t say anything. I quickly entered the office building. Someone was already waiting here. He took Yang Cheng to the floor of the headquarters by the elevator. Roger Goodall was already waiting outside the elevator door.

This scene seemed familiar. When I visited Adam Silver at the NBA headquarters, it was exactly the same as the scene before me.

It’s just that Roger Goodall is more like a successful entrepreneur than Adam Silver’s full-faced business man. This old man in his 60s looks energetic, and his gray hair is not only not old, but independent. There is some momentum.

I shook hands with Yang Cheng and exchanged a few words, and visited the headquarters as usual. Unlike the NBA, the NFL headquarters has a dedicated office for each team, and the outside wall of the office is also printed with the logo of each team. And the name, various rugby sports equipment are displayed in the glass showcase in the corridor, under the shining of the laser light, like pieces of carefully crafted works of art, let people linger.

Of course, Yang Cheng is not very interested in these things. He bought the team for the broadcast plan of his own TV station and for the investment and financial management. As for whether he will play or not, it is not important that he understands the basic rules anyway.

"Roger, my purpose is very clear. Compared with other bidders, I am very confident of my own strength."

After a brief visit, the two came to Roger Goodall's office. Yang Cheng couldn't wait to start talking without waiting for the secretary to deliver coffee.

Roger Goodall spread out a document on the desktop. Above is the qualification certificate submitted by Yang Cheng for review. No doubt, this is a beautiful transcript. It is the well-informed Roger Goodall. It is inevitable to take a breath, rich, he can't find other adjectives except this.

Of course, it’s not that there are more money than him. For example, hedge fund tycoon David Taber, and David Taber is also a minority shareholder of the NFL team. Compared with Yang Cheng, everyone is more familiar with David Taber. Who doesn't like to cooperate with acquaintances.

But Yang Cheng personally visited today, and it was considered sincere. Roger Goodall forced himself to straighten the tilted balance in his heart and stared at Yang Cheng aggressively, "Mr. Yang, as far as I know, your name is already With the two clubs of Liverpool and the Nets, if you acquire another NFL team, will you be able to guarantee financial support for the team every year?"

Yang Cheng's eyes were a little surprised, and he seemed to wonder why Roger Goodall, as the president of the league, would ask such naive questions, but he immediately realized that this old guy was testing his understanding of the NFL team.

He chuckled and spread his hands, "Don’t be kidding Roger, who doesn’t know how profitable NFL teams are in the United States? Not to mention other teams, the Carolina Panthers alone had revenue of over 300 million last year. U.S. dollars and a profit of nearly 80 million U.S. dollars. It can be said that even if I don't invest, the team has enough ability to feed itself.

Of course, since I have acquired the team, I naturally hope that the team will achieve results. It is not my pursuit to sway in the middle and lower reaches of the team like this. The investment is certain. The specific investment will have to wait for the team's new home to be determined. "

He deliberately aroused Roger Goodall's interest and brought the topic to his own track.

Sure enough, Roger Goodall frowned subconsciously, "Are you going to build a new stadium? I mean if your acquisition succeeds."

Yang Cheng shrugged and looked confident, "The stadium must be built and it must belong to the team, but it's not in Charlotte."

Roger Goodall was startled, the volume immediately increased by a few decibels, "You want to relocate the team?"

Yang Cheng buttoned her ears and blew, "Don't be so excited, you also know that my main activity areas are in New York and Los Angeles. New York already has giants and jets. Naturally, there is no place for me, so I can only Put the goal in the City of Angels, you must be happy to see a new blood competing with the Rams, right? Besides, Los Angeles has re-used the football team after 20 years, and the sensation caused by one and two is completely different. .

To tell the truth, there is only one Rams team in the Los Angeles market. "

Seeing Roger Goodall as unbelievable as he expected, Yang Cheng smiled happily and continued, "As long as the Panthers move to Los Angeles, there will be a few more NFL ratings in the future: Los Angeles Derby, Los Angeles and Can the New York showdown and Cam Newton become the new king of Los Angeles?

These gimmicks above must be given to your professionals, and you will get the best performance, and all I need is your nodding.

As long as you nod your head, the Alliance will not only get a lot of transaction fees, but also countless explosive points for mining. I believe that David Taber will never do this.

And I know how to manage a sports club better than others. I am very experienced in this area. "

Roger Goodall had to admit that Yang Cheng's words moved him, and the balance in his heart slowly tilted towards Yang Cheng's side, but he still held his smile very well, and did not let Yang Cheng see the flaw.

cleared his throat, put aside all the temptations, and asked the crucial question, "How do you view the issue of player wages."

As soon as the voice fell, it was Yang Cheng’s turn to frown. This question is not easy to answer. He is the boss of the team and belongs to the management. The players are the labor. The two are naturally opposed. One naturally hopes to pay less, while the other certainly earns. The more the better.

The NFL and the other major leagues have slightly different models, and the above theory is not entirely applicable.

You must know that even if the NFL is far ahead in the latest Forbes team value rankings and becomes the most valuable professional league in the world, the players may not be happy-they are engaged in rugby with higher sports risk, but their income levels are higher than Not in the NBA and MLB, this is a very cruel reality.

A data platform published a statistics that horizontally compared the salaries of the top 100 players in the major professional sports leagues in North America.

The results show that this past season, the average salary of the top players in the MLB (Professional League Baseball) was $16.3 million, ranking first among the four major leagues in North America; the NBA followed closely with $13.3 million.

As the league’s highest paid and most valuable NFL, the average salary of its top players is only $11.6 million, which is only 71% of the MLB and 87% of the NBA.

Not only is the income of top players inferior to that of professional players in other leagues, according to a survey by Forbes, the average income of all NFL players in 2014 was $2 million, which is much lower than the NHL, NBA and MLB. In addition, The minimum wage of the NFL in 2014 was $420,000. This income is also far lower than any mainstream professional sports. This salary level is obviously inconsistent with the status of the league. Rugby is the favorite project of the American people and will It is regarded as the "national ball".

The NFL is also the most influential and appealing of the four major professional leagues in the United States, including the NBA. An intuitive comparison is that the NBA’s total season revenue is about 5 billion US dollars, while the NFL exceeds 9 billion US dollars, almost Twice the NBA.

Not only that, the commercial value of the Super Bowl in the finals was estimated by Forbes to be around US$470 million, which is even higher than the sum of US$230 million in the Olympics and US$120 million in the World Cup.

Especially this year’s Super Bowl’s ratings have hit a record high, with 114.4 million people watching this nation’s most popular TV broadcast.

Therefore, the price of the Super Bowl advertisement is an average of 4.5 million US dollars per 30 seconds. What is the concept? This is about RMB 940,000 per second, and the halftime show of the game is full of superstars, they are all free to play, even if the exposure rate is inverted, you can get it.

But the treatment of the players has not been taken seriously.

Therefore, the issue of NFL player salaries has also received widespread attention from society. Now Roger Goodall has raised this issue, naturally wanting to see Yang Cheng's position on the side of the players or the side of the league.

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