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THE JUAN SOTO EFFECT: NEW RULE FOR ALL PROFESSIONAL SPORTS TEAMS

In the wisdomatic words of Jerry Seinfeld, when we are at a sporting event, we’re pretty much rooting for the jerseys and not necessarily the players that wear them considering the high turnover of trades, free agents, cuts, drops, pickups, outbidding, underbidding and all the different ways a professional player on whatever sport finds him or herself playing for this team or that. At the end of the day, there’s no loyalty to any one team for franchise but more so to the almighty dollar. And in some circumstances, the team with the most money at its disposal can by all means that their financial disposal purchase that title winning organization. So how is that fair? It’s not. And it bears repeating! It’s not fair! It’s downright ugly. So in order to stay true to the title of this article, we’re going to target and pick on the NFL.

New NFL rule number one, in order to play for a team you have to have been born in that state with proof thereof. Let’s say you were born in a state such as New York or California which has multiple teams, then the team you would be eligible to play for would be the team that lies within the shortest radius distance from the exact location where you were born. And let’s say you were born in Utah. Again, the radius rule would apply in regards to the exact location in Utah where you were born and the closest radio City in a bordering state which just so happens to house in NFL team. Let’s say you were born in either Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut or Massachusetts, you would then be required to play for the New England Patriots has this one team is representative of all those States combined so the birthplace radius location equation would not factor in in this one instance.

Our teams allowed to trade and pick up players to and from other states? Absolutely not! Again, the rule is, you have to be born in that state to play for its or one of its surrounding teams. And why is that? Well it’s simple actually if you think about it. It creates more cohesiveness almost immediately. It creates a sense of responsibility and belonging right off the bat. It creates an even deeper sense of local pride whereas nowadays, again, we as audience and spectators are merely rooting for the jersey that represents the team and not so much the individual players. Look at the example of Tom Brady for God…