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Originally Posted by CrazyEddie20
They already ventured down the single-entity path back in the 1990s when the Central Hockey league was formed. It didn't work then. It doesn't really work for "Major League" Soccer, either.
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Wellllllllll....
The real plan back then was for a company named Global Entertainment to convince (in some cases, trick) cities into building brand new ~6,000 seat arenas. Of course, the arena would need an anchor tenant and -- oh what luck -- Global just happened to own their own hockey league that would not only supply the team, but Global would also MANAGE the building too.
All for a price, of course.
Basically the CHL existed as a pawn to suck money out of city governments.