In other countries, especially in sports like football (soccer), teams from major urban centers tend to dominate leagues and championships, often because of higher financial resources. However, this doesn’t seem to be the case in the United States, where titles in major sports like basketball and American football are more evenly spread among cities or regions. For example, about football in other countries, it seems almost impossible for a team located in a city similar to where the Green Bay Packers are located to be relevant. Just look at the history of the Premier League, Bundesliga, or La Liga.Perhaps the question is more about why titles are more evenly distributed among regions in these sports in United States, comparing with other countries.
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Two words: salary cap. All US sports leagues except Major League Baseball have a salary cap in place that limits the amount of money that teams are allowed to spend on player salaries, which results in each team having more or less the same opportunity to pay for and attract talent. And the salary caps in US sports are true, real caps. Not that half-assed “financial fair play” garbage that does nothing but lock in the financial advantage of the big clubs that UEFA enforces. No, a simple dollar and cent limit on player spending.
Major League Baseball is the one exception, thus to no one’s surprise the most successful club is the New York Yankees.
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