David Rosenthal

It's even more important back then because there was radio, but there wasn't really TV yet.

Even though we're in the post-World War II era, these first few years, five years after the war...

the install base of TV was just starting to roll out across America.

So this is still an in-person game.

And so the business model of professional sports was ticket sales, in-person attendance at the games.

I don't think the AAFC model of the Browns being dominant would work ever, but at least today you could watch the games on TV.

They'd be like, oh, I'm always going to see a show when the Browns are playing.

That wasn't the case back then.

You had to get butts in seats.

That was the only way you were going to make money.

This becomes a feedback loop.

If you don't make money as a team, you can't afford to put a quality level of play on the field, which further tips the competitive dynamic out of balance.

I didn't realize it was that long because television is going to come in a big way.

But back to Burt Bell, the newly drafted commissioner of the NFL, this is his great insight that he realizes as he's marshalling the NFL owners in the battle against the AFC.

He adopts this as his mantra that literally, I mean, they made a movie with this title.

On any given Sunday, any team in the league should be able to beat any other team.

And he pushes this through with the owners and gets them all to agree to this of like, hey, the only way we're going to survive and prosper is if we agree that none of our teams can get so dominant that we end up with a Cleveland Browns situation.

Yes, exactly.

Which makes total sense.

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