If I were a NFL player....I’d start to review my resume and plan on being unemployed by spring of 2019. Clubs won’t be able to make payroll if fans won’t show up in the stands and if networks cut the revenue checks by 50-percent. You an do the math with a payroll listing of forty players and $40 million in salary costs.
For the kids in colleges this season and hyped up on their draft chances? You can figure your bonus chances just dropped by fifty percent.
But all of this leads me to the thought...were these NFL clubs really worth one billion in value? I’m starting to think that it’s a screwed up system that ever convinced the public to believe the total NFL franchise system was $32 billion in value.
Forbes said it was $85 billion in 2016.
The only value that the NFL really has is as a fantasy way for Americans to momentarily leave behind the problems of day to day life. It’s a small escape from the humdrum and grind of daily life. With that gone, what value does the NFL have left? Not much. There is zero intrinsic value in watching grown men run and throw balls. They don’t produce anything of value other than escape.