Post by Minniman on Oct 13, 2014 11:08:54 GMT -6
Oct 13, 2014 8:01:11 GMT -6 @boonedaniel said:
I don't place much credence in polls not even when it comes to politics.Polls are very accurate if done correctly. Push polls, leading questions, and skewed questions are use by unethical pollsters, but there are many legit polls - even political ones.
The exit poll is generally accurate. So much so that they are used to judge if elections are fair by election observers in many countries. It is ironic that the elections in Ukraine a few years back were considered dirty by international election observers because the results did not match the exit polls or registration statistics, but similar discrepancies were ignored in the 2000 and 2004 United States presidential elections.
That does not mean people should follow polls as policy. Public policy by polling is a disaster in the waiting.
The talk at the time was the Chargers moving back to LA with another team. Revenue is important and that's why the League wants at least one more team in the country's second largest media market.
The Chargers started in L.A., and they get revenue from L.A., so why not move if they cannot get a stadium built in San Diego? I would rather the Raiders move back, but either one makes sense.
It's going to come down to who builds a new stadium and where it's going to go.
That is likely how it goes down, but the NFL is using the Los Angeles market to pressure many teams into building new stadiums. Saying two teams could move is just a little more arm twisting.
The Nobel Prize for Economics was just won by Jean Tirole. His research subject is monopolies and markets, and his conclusions show that regulation is needed. If not regulated, monopolies will do what the NFL has been doing to cities across the United States, which is basically extortion by the threat of movement to Los Angeles.
... and neither is this Chris guy.