Economically, the NFL will tell you their 32 franchise teams are valued at around 32-billion dollars. That was fake economics. You can look at the system built and pronounce that without the fan base....it’s probably worth one single billion alone. You are looking at a massive economic ‘bridge-burning’ episode underway. The NBA is in the same bucket. These $131 Chicago Bears tickets (for a 2016 team) with a 3-13 record....paid into a bucket and says the Bears are worth $1.1 billion. Well...with that record and the whole knee thing...the real value is now a joke. It’s a simple pyramid scheme.
Exactly.
Bonus question: What does it say about the state of a country where simply standing for the national anthem is such a huge controversy?