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Stephen Dubner

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Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

The survey also asked how well the team takes care of the players' families during the games. Is there, for instance, a place for your mom or maybe your wife and young kids to watch where they won't get pelted by beers? And finally, the survey asked about the training staff and the strength staff, but interestingly, not the coaching staff.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

The survey also asked how well the team takes care of the players' families during the games. Is there, for instance, a place for your mom or maybe your wife and young kids to watch where they won't get pelted by beers? And finally, the survey asked about the training staff and the strength staff, but interestingly, not the coaching staff.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

Tritter says the players' union had two primary goals in running the survey and giving each team letter grades. The first was to give players information that could help them decide where to work if they ever got that choice. The second goal was to help raise the standards across each club by bringing problems out into the open. That's why the union published the results.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

Tritter says the players' union had two primary goals in running the survey and giving each team letter grades. The first was to give players information that could help them decide where to work if they ever got that choice. The second goal was to help raise the standards across each club by bringing problems out into the open. That's why the union published the results.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

Tritter says the players' union had two primary goals in running the survey and giving each team letter grades. The first was to give players information that could help them decide where to work if they ever got that choice. The second goal was to help raise the standards across each club by bringing problems out into the open. That's why the union published the results.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

We will put the link in our show notes if you want to take a look. And why they graded each club in all eight categories. Because in the NFL, turnabout is fair play.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

We will put the link in our show notes if you want to take a look. And why they graded each club in all eight categories. Because in the NFL, turnabout is fair play.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

We will put the link in our show notes if you want to take a look. And why they graded each club in all eight categories. Because in the NFL, turnabout is fair play.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

That is Jalen Reeves-Maben. He is a linebacker with the Detroit Lions and president of the NFL Players Association.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

That is Jalen Reeves-Maben. He is a linebacker with the Detroit Lions and president of the NFL Players Association.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

That is Jalen Reeves-Maben. He is a linebacker with the Detroit Lions and president of the NFL Players Association.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

Reeves-Maben has been in the league since 2017. He started his career with Detroit, then went to Houston for one season. And when we spoke with him, he was back with Detroit on a one-year contract with a base salary of $1.25 million. He played well, and last year he signed a two-year extension with the Lions for $7.5 million.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

Reeves-Maben has been in the league since 2017. He started his career with Detroit, then went to Houston for one season. And when we spoke with him, he was back with Detroit on a one-year contract with a base salary of $1.25 million. He played well, and last year he signed a two-year extension with the Lions for $7.5 million.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

Reeves-Maben has been in the league since 2017. He started his career with Detroit, then went to Houston for one season. And when we spoke with him, he was back with Detroit on a one-year contract with a base salary of $1.25 million. He played well, and last year he signed a two-year extension with the Lions for $7.5 million.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

The NFL is a commercial juggernaut. If you look at Variety's list of the top 25 primetime TV broadcasts from last year, you'll see that 18 of those 25 were NFL games. The exceptions were the Oscars, the Summer Olympics, the Grammys, the presidential debate, the World Series, and a college football semifinal. I mean, there's so much money involved.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

The NFL is a commercial juggernaut. If you look at Variety's list of the top 25 primetime TV broadcasts from last year, you'll see that 18 of those 25 were NFL games. The exceptions were the Oscars, the Summer Olympics, the Grammys, the presidential debate, the World Series, and a college football semifinal. I mean, there's so much money involved.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

The NFL is a commercial juggernaut. If you look at Variety's list of the top 25 primetime TV broadcasts from last year, you'll see that 18 of those 25 were NFL games. The exceptions were the Oscars, the Summer Olympics, the Grammys, the presidential debate, the World Series, and a college football semifinal. I mean, there's so much money involved.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

And with so much money, the league has TV deals worth more than $100 billion over roughly a decade. Reeves-Maben says the survey findings were pretty surprising.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

And with so much money, the league has TV deals worth more than $100 billion over roughly a decade. Reeves-Maben says the survey findings were pretty surprising.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

And with so much money, the league has TV deals worth more than $100 billion over roughly a decade. Reeves-Maben says the survey findings were pretty surprising.