Like Chilean professional soccer clubs that openly carry university names without pretense, American football factories such as Oklahoma and Alabama already are professional teams; abandoning the amateurism pretense and openly paying players would not damage fan identification, since cities identify with teams like the Raiders regardless.

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Speaker

Michael Lewis

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the whole city when can identify with the Raiders simply because they're called the Oakland Raiders Jacquelyn schools are going to have no trouble identifying with their football team

Source

Michael Lewis on the Hidden Economics of Baseball and Football 1/29/2007EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 12:12:19 AM

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