The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.
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Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.Will McDonough
I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced.
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The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.
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When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.
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I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.
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The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.
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