"I think I can put a team out there that can draw anywhere," Burke said.
There is no way a regular season Sunday night baseball game will draw anywhere near that.
But could they possibly draw anywhere near the same audiences as wrestling?
Political season is just under way, with critical state elections coming, and rallies are known to draw anywhere from 100,000 people to as many as one million.
Under those conditions, new models will be hard-pressed to draw anywhere near the level of interest they typically receive when they first hit the market.
The museum, which opened as the weakened economy continued to sink, did not draw anywhere near the attendance that Schwalb had predicted.
No one was tipping it to beat 2013 winner Girls, which enjoys significant critical acclaim; perpetual underdog Parks and Recreation; or generic ratings juggernauts Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory, which routinely draw anywhere from three to six times its ratings.
But Ed Sarpolus, a pollster at EPIC/MRA, a polling firm in Lansing, Mich., said that based on previous primaries, about 100,000 Democrats could be expected to vote in the Republican primary, which could draw anywhere from 600,000 to 1 million voters.
The 2,500 crowds that packed out the imposing Tempodrom arena last week - and saw Chinese star Ding Junhui win his fourth ranking title of the season on Sunday - are the biggest the sport draws anywhere in the world.
But it might be that once people draw anywhere near to the full practice of Buddhism, they find that it's not so easy as they thought it would be, and therefore just buy the T-shirt rather than sign up for the whole religion.
