Originally Posted by
wiggy
To continue that digression for a minute, agreed...Football finance has got more complex recently but the scale of pay in the Premiership originally was in part due to individuals (not society) being prepared to pay to watch football and then how that money was distributed - who got the biggest chunk - the players? board? Owners? and merchandise sales....It's widely believed Ronaldo's move back to MU was more about shirt sales than goals.
If somebody can find a way of selling the rights to watching air combat on live TV and also start selling Goose/Maverik T-shirts at the Squadron store outside the station gates then the comparisons with the likes of Haaland might be valid.
Instead of scrapping retired airframes they should be used in some kind of spectator sport, perhaps find a way of fitting paintball style guns to replace live ammunition. Make this all happen in a "dome" so aircraft cannot get too far away from the cameras, stream it live or sell highlights packages to terrestrial tv channels. It may be more successful if things actually explode, but I'm not sure how that would work with real pilots - perhaps convert everything into a drone flown from a bunker.
Spend lots of money on slick advertising, what could go wrong?