ChVint22 wrote:Leody wrote:I will never understand "Americanized" as a term... it's synonymous with commercialized. Any half brained businessman would have done what's being done in football now. Just took longer for Europeans to see the insane amount of money that can be made in sport.
What g-man means is, football in Europe and England specifically was about the community you lived in, and the teams that played in those communities weren't looked at as a business, they were looked at as a club. Kind of like joining a club, you joined the community to support your local CLUB, and that was your life. In America, sports were always more like a business since we've been alive, it wasn't so much about the community and being apart of something (it was in some ways, but not like over there), and it quickly became more of a business and about money. It was a huge deal back in the day, when players started making more than the president, and American sports was never the same after that. It isn't such a bad thing, but money rules everything and it was inevitable that it was going to happen to football. And I guess since we kinda made sports an entertainment business first, then that term is used.
Yep.
Sorry for improper use of the term. Should've used commercialised. But you're right Leody, any businessman would've seized the opportunity. Just so happens it was Murdock.