Can the NFL EVER intervene?

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(10-21-2019, 12:58 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: It's generally up to the consumer though. They vote with their dollars.

In the NFL, the stadium could sit empty and the Bengals will turn a profit.

The same can be said for any team or league with a major TV deal.  WWE has billion dollar TV deals that ensure profits regardless of attendance.  NASCAR has had mostly empty stands for years now.  Live attendance is really seen as a secondary revenue stream for a lot of teams.  

No normal business essentially has a cartel running it that forces them to spend a certain amount on labor, either.  In fact in the old days, cutting costs by fielding crap teams was one way owners secured profits for themselves.  

In a normal business, there is always room for a cheap alternatives.  Bengals games have always been cheap.  If you look at the first 5 years of Andy and AJ, if you had a product that cost in the bottom 10% of like products but was in the top 1/3 in quality, you would sell a ton. 

If we used pizza places as an example, you see mom and pop shops with good food quality fold all the time, but places like Dominos and Little Cesaer's keep chugging along with their lower food quality and food costs.  You're also not going to boycott your local shop because they haven't won a "Best Slice" award in a billion years, either.  

It's silly to compare an NFL team to a "normal" business because it's just so radically different.