I'll beieve draft order is worthless when all US closed major leagues make the order completely random.
If you think that perennial failures Detroit and New York Jets aren't coasting, you're not paying attention.
I was a history major in college but doesn't 55 + 45 = 100? So after two years they would have gotten approx. a years worth of PL money in the form of parachute payments. I did get this from Wiki and read the article last week so if I missed something let me know. But even if the numbers are a little different it wouldn't change the fundamental argument for me. The only way that changes is if a relegated club was actually getting more money then the clubs that stayed in the prem. In that case they would be getting rewarded for failure.
We generally find ourselves on the same side of this debate which I respect. But I hope you're not just looking at historical records and drawing inaccurate conclusions. While it is possible that some teams are just plugging along and bringing in money I would be careful making generalizations. Unless your on the inside, basic incompetence can often look like a plan. Basically unless you know the difference between a Cover 2 and a 0 coverage and when it's best to deploy each then I'd probably stay away from specific comparisons between the NFL the Prem.
And, as I pointed out in an earlier post, those percentages are of the fixed portion of tv money, which is 50% of the total.
"Already relegated" Norwich City win 3-0. Good lord, Watford looked bad. So Norwich are currently out of the relegation zone: two points ahead of Watford with Watford having two games in hand. Meanwhile, "Coasting" Detroit Lions completed yet another season of abject failure and were rewarded with better draft choices.
After Green Bay had already secured the No 1 seed in the NFC and thus was a meaningless game for them other than in avoiding injuries.
Unlike with Detroit being awarded better draft choices for their failure, Grimsby were relegated to the National League at the end of last season. They and Southend were replaced by Sutton United and Hartlepool United. Sutton are currently 3rd and Hartlepool 17th out of 24 teams in League Two.
Dunno if it's an accurate description of Everton's situation, but this article describes their relegation battle woes after investing a whopping 660 million (€€ or BPounds?). So it takes more than money to be successful in a P/R league. http://www1.voetbalzone.nl/doc.asp?uid=399242
Unlike NFL fans in Oakland and San Diego, or Rochester NBA fans, or Brooklyn Dodgers fans; Grimsby and Southend still have their team. And the league they play in was determined by performances on the field. As far Sutton and Hartlepool; 2 clubs promoted, one low in table, one high; seems like a reasonable healthy state of affairs.
The one example amongst professional teams in England in over a century. So whataboutism at its finest.
You know there's more than one example of teams that no longer exist and have been replaced by phoenix clubs.
That wasn't his point. The discussion was about relocated teams. What I do know a boatload of minor league teams in the US have disappeared in the last ten years.