Business Daily meets: Paul and Mike Rabil
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The sport of lacrosse has a long history, being one of the oldest sports in North America. But, for a long time, many players couldn't earn a living in the same way athletes could who were playing in established leagues like Major League Soccer or the National Football League. After a time as one of the best lacrosse players in the world, Paul Rabil, along with his brother Mike, an established businessman and investor, decided to start their own league that could give players a livelihood.
We speak to the brothers to find out the challenges of starting a league from the ground up, and how they had to convince players to join them, and from there, we also find out how it could be going global, and why the story has been turned into a major documentary that has aired on ESPN.
Presenter: Rahul Tandon, Producer: Ed Butler
(Image: Paul and Mike Rabil at an event; Credit: Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Premier Lacrosse League)
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| 0:08.5 | Crowd science is the podcast that takes your questions about life and the world around us and goes in search of the answers. |
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| 0:18.8 | Just search for crowd science wherever you found this podcast. |
| 0:27.6 | Hi, I'm Rahul Tandon, and today here on Business Daddy, we're looking at the story of how |
| 0:32.2 | someone goes from being a star athlete in their sport to running a successful sporting league. |
| 0:39.4 | Just as much as the players felt the pressure to perform, |
| 0:42.6 | I think Paul and I also felt the pressure that, man, this is actually happening. |
| 0:46.7 | Everyone's equally sort of looking at us and, you know, |
| 0:49.7 | how the business is going to perform from here on out. |
| 0:52.2 | This is the story of two brothers. |
| 0:54.7 | One is called Paul Rable, who for a time was known as one of the best lacrosse players in the world, |
| 1:00.4 | probably one of the greatest in its history. |
| 1:02.9 | Rabel again. What a move. |
| 1:05.1 | And he scores. |
| 1:09.1 | Paul Rabel shakes free and opens the scoring for cannon. |
| 1:12.6 | And then there's his brother, Mike Rable, a businessman who's worked with a number of insurance |
| 1:17.9 | companies and somebody who's also founded a major cycling business in Boston. |
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