Sport Capitalism

This is a response to Mark's post about the Green Bay Packers from yesterday. To summarize:

• The Packers are owned by the public
• Packers fans fill Lambeau field to the tune of a 31-year waiting list for season tickets
• If the Jets drew the same fans-to-local-population ratio, they would need 5.4 million fans per game (you guys know how I love stats that support a point)
• Since the team is owned by a large group of people, the GM is given a lot of power and has a lot of expectations to meet. Because he does not own any of the team, he is not protected by the whole "I paid for the team so I am going to be here as long as I want" theory like a lot of owners