[Alberta's Child]

Godo point, but I’ve seen a number of sources indicating that about 2/3rds of an NFL team’s revenue comes from the league’s television contracts. That is far and away the largest source of their revenue. All of the other things like ticket sales, merchandise sales, concessions, luxury box revenue, parking revenue shares, etc. make up the remaining 1/3rd.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

 

Nice breakdown of the situation. Now, the NFL may have the deck stacked in their favor with the contractual obligations, but say if the advertisers/sponsors that actually make the bills got cold feet for whatever reason or just didn't have the ad budget like they've had in the past - well, then there's a problem. And there's no telling what provisions (thoroughly written in barely legible legalese) are enrolled in those contracts, including or excluding some sort of performance provisions. The time may come to where they won't have a sure lock on that sort of revenue like they've enjoyed in the past. The one thing they don't have a totally guaranteed lock on is the fickle public at large, though I cannot see a successfully organized boycott ever coming to fruition, the burgeoning national economic issues coming into play are sure to negatively affect that sector of their income. They either see the writing on the wall and adjust accordingly or suffer the consequences. I don't keep up with the sports scene and don't know a whole lot about their internal machinations, but am wondering if this latest dust-up isn't an effort to pull a correction for the sake of survival. I don't know.

 

 

 

[discostu]

NFL had 9 billion in total revenue last year and the current TV contracts average out to just a touch over 3 billion. So the 3rds are the other way around.