How can the Bills be worth only $750 million if the LA Clippers are worth $2 billion?
R U Series? Have you been to Buffalo in the last fifty years or so? To some, I'm sure it's lovely this time of year but Buffalo doesn't quite have the economy of the greater Los Angeles region. Fewer sponsorships, fewer corporations and rich people to sell boxes to, etc. The best thing the Bills have going for them is revenue sharing.
To put this in dollar terms, in 2012, the Gross Domestic Product of metro Buffalo was $47 billion, which makes its economy slightly smaller than that Uruguay and about the same size as Tunisia. The Gross Domestic Product of metro Los Angeles was $765 billion, which makes it richer than Saudi Arabia and about equal to the Netherlands. Way more valuable to be #2 in Los Angeles..
The only reason they are worth $750 million is the equal NFL merchandising and TV contract revenue sharing. Each NFL team gets an equal slit of ANY NFL licensed product. For example, if you buy a Dallas Cowboys(the highest selling professional sports logo franchise) hat. Each NFL team gets 1/32 of the proceeds of that sale. Same with the TV contracts.
This is different than MLB where the Yankees, Atlanta Braves and Red Sox, among others have their own TV stations that bring in huge amounts of revenue. This is why these teams can afford to pay more for players than KC or Milwaukee. These teams own their own TV broadcast rights except for the nationally telecast games on FOX or Sunday night baseball. This is why the big city baseball teams are worth so much more. Plus they have so many games to broadcast on TV. It is all about revenue generation.
In the NFL, the league owns the rights to broadcast the games. The NFL the logo products and splits it up equally. Without this teams like Buffalo and Green Bay(a city of 120m people) could never support a team. Without this equal revenue sharing these teams would be worth even less.
“How can the Bills be worth only $750 million if the LA Clippers are worth $2 billion?”
Well, I merely used the amount that’s bring reported as the Bills sell price. But, to your question; just look at the markets of each team and the answer should be self evident.