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Universities draft athletes to work within the NCAA, a multi-billion dollar industry that regulates players to the point of management. All television revenue, ticket and jersey sales, promotions and other sources of income goes to everyone involved in the business except for the athletes creating the worth. According to USA Today Sports in 2014, the NCAA had total revenue of nearly 1 billion during its 2014 fiscal year, well beyond the revenue generated by the NFL, and NBA playoffs. (NCAA nearly topped $1billion in

The NFL benefits from having football being a common conversation point in schools and workplaces. From fantasy football leagues to highly intricate betting in Las Vegas. There is not just passion, but dollars and time being invested by the end consumer. The NFL saturates Thanksgiving television, it’s players are often celebrities, its story lines are on the tip the American male. Knowing the game of football is often a rite of passage. Football is American tradition. The NFL clearly has it’s place in American culture. It is evident in the outpouring of corporate sponsors into the league. Companies recognize the visibility NFL players offer to their products and the NFL leverages that back into its brand. All aspects surrounding the sport are sponsored. From the sports drink the players slurp then dump on their coaches after victories—to the on-the-field tablets branded with the iconic window for drawing up plays. The jerseys, cleats, gloves, hats, helmets, pads—and that is just on the field. There’s food, cars, watches, headphones—it seems everything that scrapes past the NFL becomes sponsored in some way. Backing from the NFL appears to currently have exponential upside increasing brand awareness.

In pro sports most NFL teams are worth close to 2.5 billion dollars, per team. According to Forbes 2017, the team worth the least amount are the Buffalo Bills worth 1.6 billion dollars. Ohio state football program is worth 1.5 billion dollars almost as much as a pro NFL team. Due to the rules the NCAA has in place, the students on the Ohio State football team sees zero amount of the profit money. Even though they are the reason the football program is worth so much

Bennett, Dashiell. “Only 22 Of 120 Division I Athletic Programs Made Money Last Year.” Business Insider. Business Insider, Inc., 15 Jun. 2011. Web. 28 Oct 2014.This supports Frank Crumley’s claim that most athletic programs “work in the red.” The author also shows how football is the big money maker. Not all departments can pay their players. Therefore, it would be unfair for departments that can pay their players to do so. The figures come from the NCAA annual report of revenue and expenses for Division I sports. This is one of my main arguments against paying football players.

While growing up in the state of Texas I was introduced to National Football League (NFL) at a very young age. Not only was I obsessed with great players like Emmitt Smith and Michael Irving, I had a more finical appreciation for the lucrativeness associated with the NFL. My young adulthood as well as my teenage years was spent playing and learning football with the aspirations of hopefully making it to the NFL. Unfortunately, my playing days ended with tryouts at Texas Tech University, but my love for the game has remained stagnant over the years even till this day. The NFL today is Americas most watched sports league and has taken the crown as the most lucrative and unique economic force in sports. Forbes offered approximations stating that on average, the NFL generates more than $6-9 billion a year in revenues alone. A third of the individual franchises in the league were appraised at over more than $1 billion while the other franchises average nine figures or higher. The NFL as an organization generates its revenues through a multitude of ways ranging from huge television contracts, in-stadium ticket sales, advertising ads paid for by sponsors and merchandise. Their business model unlike most other leagues, is centered on a hard salary cap on player contracts which provides cost certainty with its sponsors. In this paper, I will examine the economic and historical narrative associated with the growth of the NFL’s

During the 2014 fiscal year, the NCAA, also known as the National Collegiate Athletic Association, had total revenue of nearly $1 Billion. How much of that went to the 460,000 NCAA student-athletes, you may ask? Zero dollars and zero cents. The debate on whether or not student-athletes should be paid, specifically college football players, continues to grow. With this, it becomes increasingly more difficult to deny the fact that college sports are a multi-billion industry and coaches are being paid out multi-million dollar contracts over several years as a result of whether or not their players succeed on the field.

The NFL players today are paid more money because of their experience, talents, and abilities to recreate the game. The actors who usually get compensated the most are the franchise players. The franchise players (best players on their team) are treated more valuable and the teams base their game strategies because of the talents of those players. While other musicians are part of a role in the game plan, the franchise players carry most the load to the game design. The NFL players today can easily be substituted by other upcoming college students. Unlike past generations, the rivalry is even more difficult to play against today because the players want to remain in the league or not be traded to other squads. The NFL remains to improve year after year because of the large competitors that join the league and the current players that do not want to be put back.

With how many sporting events that there are in this country, it is common to see fans that love multiple games. Professional sports are typically favored by most followers, but there is a clear deficiency that hurts the leagues. Professional sports are exhilarating if one is a fan of a playoff team or especially a team that wins championships on a regular basis. While this is great for traditional powerhouses and teams with endless amounts of money, the majority of teams in these leagues serve as punching bags for years or even multiple decades. There is a fine line between these teams and other organizations that struggle just to make financial ends meet. Teams in financial

As of 2014, the NFL operates as a non-profit organization -- the NFL is exempt from paying taxes. However, even though the Carolina Panthers is under the NFL, it is operating as a for-profit business (Patrick Doyle 2014). Therefore, like all for-profit businesses, the Panthers should ideally generate a profitable income to continue operating. As a result, the Panthers’ financial health or future earnings is a quantitative criteria we included in our recommendation.

I researched many sources to budget our nfl team, and how much money we would receive from the state of nevada. So the research that was found was from tennessee. We researched Tennessee's minor league baseball team, las vegas minor league baseball team, and then Tennessee Titans NFL team. So we figured that the Las Vegas minor league team gets about nine million dollars a year, then the tennessee minor league team gets about eight million seventy five thousand a year, and the last one we researched was the Tennessee Titans which they receive three hundred forty two million a year. So we set up ratios to figure the cost of what our team received, this ratio is set up as X over 9 is equal to 342 millions over 8.75 million, then we multiplied 342 million and 9 million, then divided the 8.75 million to get us with 351, 771, 428. This number represent how much we would receive from nevada. Then you add in the yearly budget the NFL gives each team which is about 226,400,000, so the total funding our team would like to receive with both NFL and Nevada's funding each year would be around 578,171,428.

The National Football League(NFL) is running one of its own games on the public, and as one the most supported non-profit organizations in American history. The NFL excels at tackling the American taxpayer. It should be of no surprise that with its religious-like following, the NFL receives the same tax-exempt status as a church, exempted under the IRS 501 (c)(6) code from paying federal taxes. The legislation puts the NFL as a non-profit trade association which it has been under since 1942. This statement intends me to ask what Steve Almond asked in his book “Against Football: One Fan 's Reluctant Manifesto” how did this happen (Almond pg.81)? Imagine driving through a city. The things you see around you are: average constructed schools, average constructed houses, bumpy roads, and very old structured buildings. Oh but wait, in the middle of the city you see a huge modern electrical sign on top of a huge modern structure saying “The Coca Cola Arena”. At this minute you may ask, how can a very average sized constructed town have one the most fascinating buildings in the world? This to me is very controversial and leads me to agree with Steve Almonds claim that the NFL is an ideal model of crony capitalism and a corporate oligarchy.

Business matters will never be an easy process to keep things functioning in a positive direction. Whether risk taking approaches spark trickle down effects or upward gains, he who steers the wheel should always know that nobody is bigger than the organization itself. Of course, pinching pennies will always save you a buck or two, but when it comes down to paying top employees, the “Benjamin Franklin’s” will always be up the ladder. In the NFL, one of the key aspects for an organization is to shape up their salary cap for the betterment of sharing the wealth through their roster and to ease things up to make long term investments on franchise talents.

Anti-Trust law is a collection of federal and state laws that regulate the conduct of business corporations, with the goal being to promote competition and outlaw monopolies. The National Football League, which consists of 32 separate teams, is an anomaly in this sense: are owners separate economic actors or are they forbidden from colluding? Under the court case “American Needle, Inc. V. National Football League”, the Court found that owners act as distinct economic actors with separate economic interests, granting them the ability to conspire. This victory benefitted the National Football League greatly, with each team being deemed independently owned with differing objectives.

Although the Washington Redskins continue to rank high amongst their NFL counterparts, this franchise still have not reached its max earning potential. With other major companies such as Nike paying the league for exclusive rights to make uniforms or DirecTv paying for the right to broadcast out of market games to displaced fans, coupled with ticket and merchandise sales the Washington Redskins will continue to reap the financial benefits of being a franchise of America’s favorite

It is quite clear to see how successful the NFL is at producing money, as they play a dominant role in media and the entertainment business today. This is supported by Rosenberg as he states how not only did the NFL generate $9.5 billion in revenue in 2012, but NFL commissioner “Roger Goodell has set an aggressive goal of getting the league to $25 billion in revenue by 2027” (Source D). Although the revenue of the NFL seems to be outrageous, one can not deny the widespread economic impact in which the NFL has on society. Ernest Hooper discusses this widespread economic impact the NFL has on society.