I remember reading an article where the huge salary descrepancy between Lance and EVERYONE ELSE was sorta why some people weren't fans in Europe. He was in the millions back when teams' entire budgets were about the same or less.

I also also read somewhere that team budgets are sorta like Major League Baseball, where RadioShack and a couple others are like The Yankees, and everyone else is a fraction of theirs.

But I get facts messed up, so possibly none of this is correct.