How professional athletes ACTUALLY make their money. - StoryBrain

[@ralphwarom2514]

You are a gift to the world Mr. Brain.

[@joewarriner547]

The "athlete focused" model is quite an American view of sports I think. In the US as I understand it you tend to have a fixed list of teams in a league and a draft? So a team can come last one year, and you just get a new QB and a chance to try again next year. The stakes for winning and losing are therefore not super high for the team as a business, and so you need these narratives to drive a slightly artificial sense of the importance of the competition to make people feel like its worth watching. In the Premier league, for example, the stakes are a lot higher - if you come last you get relegated to a much less lucrative league and from there risk fading into obscurity - plenty of clubs have had severe financial troubles after this has happened. As such, a compelling competition doesn't need to manufactured in the same way, and players values in the UK are much more closely related to their sports abilities rather than their "story" or character, because the link between winning games and the clubs business success is much stronger.

[@HamishDownie]

I really miss this channel

[@elvero666]

Maybe an even more interesting video would be about Pro Wrestling since it brings both the element of an athletic competition and also a scripted storyline.

[@StoryBrain]

I started learning about writing by watching pro wrestling. I could do a whole channel on nothing but that. I don't want to get carried away but I think at some point I could do at least one video on what made Ric Flair so special.

[@vlandanlaurusaitis639]

That would be amazing.

[@elvero666]

@@StoryBrain would be much appreciated.. Flair was the absolute best.

[@danielavila6545]

i came here from howards channel, love your work, i think a Good topic to make your next video on would be The Flow State