Jeffrey Raymond Dainton
4 min readSep 4, 2024
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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…

Jeffrey Raymond Dainton
Jeffrey Raymond Dainton

Written by Jeffrey Raymond Dainton

Therapist posing as a Probation Officer for the last 26 years, a constant treasure hunting story teller with a childlike fascination for the Here and Now! Go!!!

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