[St Charles Owl]

The other thing with American sports fans they are incredibly loyal to their team even when things are not going well and season tickets will still fly out the door when they become available. ( they still enjoy the day)  My team the New York Jets have been dire for a few seasons but sales are always healthy. This may be partly due to the Draft system they have in USA sport where the most poorly rated teams have first pick at the available talent and so should ensure the best prospects for them turning their results around. The Cleveland Browns from December 2016 till September 2018 didn't win a game ( and then their first win was against the Jets lol) but with the draft system have turned the corner and I think they will get to the play offs in the next 2 seasons. Fans just wait knowing fortunes will change. They will leave the game early if their team has no chance of getting back into it but you won't see and hear the same hostility that you do over here.

Agree to a certain extent about US teams and fans but most of what you say is a relatively new phenomena.

Before I moved here clubs that were crap and consistently losing saw their crowds drop dramatically, the Chicago Cubs couldn't fill Wrigley in the 80s and 90s even if they gave away free tickets, now its always full no matter what!! I am not sure what changed that, maybe television exposure as more and more games were shown live on TV, certainly American sports teams are the masters of marketing so that has to have had an effect, maybe the fact that most teams reside in metro areas with huge populations (Chicago 10m, Cleveland 2.5m, Detroit 4.5m, for comparison Edinburgh has 900,000 and two top teams!!), so getting 50,000 through the gate is much easier if your catchment area has that many people in it.

I do know from living here for a couple of decades that the one difference between US sports leagues and our football is promotion, and more importantly, relegation. The Cleveland Browns, or the Detroit Lions, who as you say went entire seasons without a win know that there are zero consequences for being crap, they stay in the same league, they get the top picks in the draft, wages are capped, players are contracted and more importantly their money is guaranteed through tv deals etc. The benefits of winning a Superbowl or a World Series are huge for sure but the absence of any "penalties" for most players, coaches and in particular owners for when it all goes wrong means there is a complete disregard for failure. I think there are now 8 American owners in the PL, how long before the promotion/relegation issue is brought up again by the clubs in the PL??

This appointment could work, likely it won't as most have stated but if Hibs played in Cleveland, the ground would be full regardless, ticket prices would be through the roof and the owners would be getting the same revenue!! The reality is very different to that in European football.