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The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 20:31 Ben Gilbert Decatur Staley's, the Racine Cardinals, and one we have not talked about yet, the Green Bay Packers.
- ▶ 21:51 Ben Gilbert 100% of these teams either fold or move to larger cities, except for the Packers.
- ▶ 21:56 Ben Gilbert They're the only small market team that stood the test of time.
- ▶ 22:30 David Rosenthal It just became completely non-viable economically for small town teams to survive except for Green Bay.
- ▶ 26:52 Ben Gilbert Right, and those eight teams, the Cardinals, of course, they're in Arizona today, you got the Chicago Bears, you got the Green Bay Packers, the New York Giants, the Detroit Lions, the Boston Redskins had since moved to Washington, you've…
- ▶ 51:02 Ben Gilbert The Packers were making zero.
- ▶ 51:03 David Rosenthal I think the Packers were making five K.
- ▶ 1:24:29 David Rosenthal I mean, like, let's take the Browns and Packers.
- ▶ 1:24:39 David Rosenthal Versus the Packers in a town like Green Bay.
- ▶ 1:24:48 David Rosenthal And what Roselle is saying is just like TV, I don't care how much merchandise you sell, the Packers are getting the same check from enterprises as the Browns are.
- ▶ 1:24:57 Ben Gilbert We should probably take a 62nd aside, but the unique structure of the Packers is totally amazing.
- ▶ 1:25:20 Ben Gilbert Anytime they want to raise money, they go and sell more shares, more stock in the Green Bay Packers.
- ▶ 1:25:28 Ben Gilbert So there's this very distributed ownership group of the Packers.
- ▶ 1:25:35 David Rosenthal Hold a piece of the Packers.
- ▶ 1:25:41 Ben Gilbert But this mechanism has kept the Packers in Green Bay, even while capitalist forces and individual whims of billionaires have moved many other teams around.
- ▶ 1:26:15 Ben Gilbert And for a lot of the analysis we'll do later, the data comes from the Green Bay Packers annual report, because no other team publishes their P&L, but the Packers do.
- ▶ 2:01:24 David Rosenthal The game itself, the Packers end up destroying the Chiefs.
- ▶ 2:01:28 David Rosenthal The next year in Super Bowl II, the Packers again beat down the Raiders this time.
- ▶ 2:01:33 Ben Gilbert It is worth saying, wow, the dominance of the Packers right around this time.
- ▶ 3:55:01 David Rosenthal So with the one grandfathered exception of the Green Bay Packers, which are a publicly owned nonprofit corporation.
- ▶ 3:57:53 David Rosenthal And you're able to get all 32 of these people or, you know, 31 plus the Packers into a room a couple of times a year.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:08:48 Ben Gilbert That's like being a Green Bay Packers shareholder.