The world’s most valuable sports team hasn’t won a thing in decades. How?

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JERRYWORLD: The 49ers and Dallas Cowboys in the NFC Wild Card Playoff game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. 

JERRYWORLD: The 49ers and Dallas Cowboys in the NFC Wild Card Playoff game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. 

Before he was the title character of an Emmy-winning series, Ted Lasso was the star of a 2013 marketing campaign for NBC after the network was awarded the broadcasting rights for the Premier League in the United States.

The ad followed the same fish-out-of-water premise as the show it later inspired: Lasso, played by Jason Sudeikis, was a red-blooded American football coach hired by Tottenham Hotspur struggling to grasp the basics of “soccer”.

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