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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. (lemmy.world)

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Its rhe only thing I wish could change about my experience using Lemmy, for more active users in the communities like NFL or NHL and the affiliated team pages of those sports. I haven't had any social media in decades, my main source for sporting news breaks up until 1-2 years ago was Reddit.

I love the small community that makes up Lemmy. As someone just posted, it feels like a small town community. I like the absence of corporate shills and ads and bots.

Back when I switched from Reddit to Lemmmy, I made an effort to upvote and comment on the NFL and Buffalo Bills communities. I eventually gave up because it was like months of posting, voting and commenting but when I would go back to check the communities, everything would still be sitting at like 2 up votes and 0 comment replies or if it was my own post, 1 upvote and 0 comments. For a majority of cases. Every once in a blue moon I would come accross a post where another user voted or commented but it was never more than me and one other user.

I know there is a certain demographic that uses Lemmy that is mostly driven by the required IT prowess needed to set up, use and even understand the federated concept. I also recognize that this demographic is traditionally disinterested in sports. Im not complaining about this or the users who are on Lemmy. Im also not wishing for any changes be made to aggressively expand Lemmy's user base. Its just an impractical wish I have so I could get my sports news from the same source I get all my other news.

I will prolly spend more time this coming year settling on a 2ndary source for sports news from sources similar to sleeper app but it would be so nice if the Lemmy sporting communities blew up so I could keep everything aggregated to one source.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's significantly lower than other types of workers.

There are less than 1700 players in the NFL for all the teams. The NFLs revenue for last year was 24 billion dollars.

Total salaries for the NFL is like 5.x billion dollars, and in addition to that, the players are the sole revenue generating force in the league.

So yeah, even at their insane salaries they're still underpaid!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

the players are the sole revenue generating force

Is any of the broadcast stuff done by them, or is 100% of that done by other companies?

Refs are absolutely essential to a sporting league. As are coaches. Other positions are certainly important, but I think those I've named are essential enough to the direct revenue generation to merit a mention

Total salaries for the NFL is like 5.x billion dollars

Total total salaries, or total player salaries? Because if it's the former, that can only make your claim stronger. If it's the latter, well, it's hard to say. One would have to figure out roughly how much they make to see the NFL's overall salary costs and compare it to other businesses.

That said, the stats you've given mean about 20% of revenue goes to salary. This random website which happens to be the first to come up when I search for "what percentage of business's revenue are spent on salary" suggests 20% is pretty much par for the course. That would seem to imply that footballers in the NFL are being ripped off roughly equal to the average worker, depending on the factors in the previous paragraph.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are people going to watch the refs? They sure as hell aren't getting paid the big bucks, most of them do it part time.

Coaches make money, but again, it's a fraction of total revenue.

I find it funny you're literally attacking 'the workers' in this case, just because it's athletes and not traditional workers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I find it funny you’re literally attacking ‘the workers’ in this case

I find it funny that you can take my attempt to engage in good-faith conversation and twist it in such a lazy and poorly-informed way.

And by "funny", I mean disappointing. Be better.