David Rosenthal

We made a big deal early in the episode about the origins of American football and being intertwined with this elite rite of passage American collegiate experience.

The NCAA is an absolute mess right now.

Seriously.

The reality is right now, I think it's all still too messy and in flux to definitively say what the impact of all this will be on the NFL.

But to me, it's just sort of like the final formal nail in the coffin that football in America is the NFL these days in a way that when the NFL was starting, football in America was the collegiate experience.

That's interesting.

So it's now like come full circle and fully flipped that like the legitimate football league,

is the NFL and the Wild West illegitimate who knows what's going on is the NCAA.

Yeah, our teams can be more analytically confident in the draft choices that they're making as a result of this.

That said, it's all still too chaotic right now to tell.

Yeah, it's funny.

We spent the whole original episode and now this whole update section talking about all the business drivers of the NFL and all the trends and all the things that are going on that theoretically should increase the value of the league and its teams.

And it's ironic that probably the one really big glaring area in the original episode that we didn't cover at all

was the dynamics of team ownership, and thus collectively, in aggregate, league ownership of the NFL.

Now, this is actually probably good because this is also the single biggest thing that changed in the NFL since we made the original episode.

Right.

Okay, so what has happened over the last couple years?

The NFL has long had a pretty strict code around team ownership.

So other sports leagues have regulations, too, about who can own teams and what ownership groups can exist, etc.

But the NFL has always had the strictest set of regulations around this.