The Ledger, every show
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Bill Belichick Spent Six Months Recruiting Paul Rabil for the NFL
“It started with a conversation that we had, which was, I think you could play in the NFL. And I was like, I want to play wide receiver. He was like, I think you'd be a strong safety. And I was like, why? He was like, because you have the size and the speed of …”
Major League Lacrosse Resisted Commercial Models Used by NBA and UFC
“And I kept running into almost at every turn obstacles and questions as to why major league lacrosse at the time was not doing what the UFC was doing or MLS was doing or MLB was doing or NBA was doing. And I would have those conversations with leadership and t…”
Phil Mickelson Made Millions Leveraging Miraculous Recoveries From Poor Golf Shots
“An example of a rebound goal in golf is an up and down where like literally Phil Mickelson has made Tens of, if not hundreds of millions of dollars being famous for hitting miraculous shots, which by the way, it's a miraculous shot because he had a shitty tee …”
Rabil: Patriots Base Contract Incentives on Playing Time, Not Individual Stats
“I think the Patriots do a really good job of building incentive incentives around starting. And playing in games and they don't incentivize based off of number of catches or touchdowns or yards passed.”
Rabil: Founders Leveraged Private Equity Backing to Attempt MLL Buyout
“So about six months later, we went back to MLL with overhead capital that we had acquired at the time as primarily private equity, and we proposed a number of different scenarios of essentially buying them or rolling them up and keeping them involved from an e…”
Rabil: Athlete Social Followings Are Up to Eight Times Larger Than Teams
“That athletes following are four, sometimes eight to one the size of their teams and league.”
Rabil: Less Than Five Percent of Sports Fans Attend Games in Person
“Less than five percent of sports fans actually go to games.”
Rabil: Lacrosse Is North America's Fastest-Growing Youth Team Sport
“It's the fastest growing team sport in North America at the youth level over the last 15 years.”
Rabil: MLL Paid Rookie Players Just $6,000 for the Entire 2008 Season
“A low wage, which at the time for rookies was 6000 dollars for the whole season.”
Rabil: Funding Circle Acquired Endurance Lending Network During Its Series A
“We started endurance lending network. So he shifted his time full time there that got acquired by funding circle. When we were out for our series a that turned into funding circle us”
Rabil: Premier Lacrosse League Is Backed by Joe Tsai, Chernin, CAA
“Venture backed from folks like Josai and Josai Sports, Rain Ventures, CAA, Chernin, Blum. We have an individual who's one of the most successful hedge fund operators in Brett Jefferson.”
Paul Rabil: Professional lacrosse players must create ancillary income streams
“And I think business was by necessity because professional lacrosse players don't make much money. So, You have to figure out ancillary income streams.”