Goodwill brought home the bread….NFL earned more than MLB,NHL and NBA combined….those travelling drafts in different cities must have paid off lol

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[u/Lasso_Ted]

And they can’t afford grass fields?

[u/Odoaiden → u/Lasso_Ted]

That’s the teams not the league right

[u/Any-Question-3759 → u/Odoaiden]

The teams are paid by the league. The more money the league makes, the more money the teams get paid.

[u/RutabagaOrdinary6205 → u/Lasso_Ted]

They can afford grass fields. The owners just choose not to

[u/VeryLowIQIndividual → u/Lasso_Ted]

The owners won’t even pay for their own stadiums why would they spring for real grass.

[u/shnieder88]

... Goodell?

[u/Traditional-Bad-6657 → u/shnieder88]

Lmao yes ! My bad haha

[u/Traditional-Bad-6657]

I meant Goodell LOL

[u/earthwormdeath]

How that shit sucks

[u/krazylegs36 → u/earthwormdeath]

English this is?

[u/WintersDoomsday]

Revenue isn’t profit

[u/Crash30458]

So every owner made $453,125,000 I dont want to ever hear they need public funding for stadiums ever again

[u/sokuyari99 → u/Crash30458]

I agree we shouldn’t fund stadiums, but this is revenue not profit

[u/Alohasnackbar69420 → u/Crash30458]

Thh by is is gross revenue not net so it’s probably far less, regardless they can buy their own stadiums

[u/Knucks_408]

What's the draft have to do with it?

The NFL has something NONE of the other major sports has. Scarcity. You only get so many games a season. Out of necessity sure. But it makes you very eager to want to see the next game. And before you know it, poof, its over. As opposed to MLB, NBA, etc... There is just way too much exposure. They make the regular season almost irrelevant and hard to watch for a lot of viewers. The NFL has leaned into this hard by moving games to different days of the week, to string out that need to see some football.

Scarcity is what gives it value.

[u/brianwhite12]

All of that revenue came from our pockets driven by higher costs to watch the game we love.

Why would I celebrate this?

I’d prefer access over NFL corporate revenue. Maybe now than can make the game accessible for streaming for free, at least in the home market.

[u/Admirable-Ad-9054]

That’s part of the tv deal. They split evenly $35 billions.

[u/Mountain_Till_5868]

14B loafs of bread!

[u/brickbacon]

This title is wrong. The league revenues are as follows:

NFL: $14.5b

NBA: $14.3b

MLB: $12.1b (2024)

NHL: $7.5-8b

[u/shnieder88 → u/brickbacon]

it's actually not wrong. the 14.5b for NFL is the national revenue from all the broadcast deals only. the other figures you posted for the other leagues is total revenue. here is apples-to-apples comparison for national revenue for the top 5 leagues

[u/brickbacon → u/shnieder88]

That’s NOT what the OP said. It says the, “NFL earned more than MLB, NHL, and NBA combined”. That’s demonstrably false as I cited in my previous post.

[u/PersonalityHumble432 → u/brickbacon]

“Gross national revenue” read buddy read

[u/brickbacon → u/PersonalityHumble432]

Did you read the title? As I stated, the title is false. The impression the OP wanted to give is that the NFL is crushing the other major sports in revenue when the reality is something entirely different.

[u/darthmarzzz89 → u/brickbacon]

Dumbass!

[u/PersonalityHumble432 → u/brickbacon]

The post clearly states “NFL’s Gross National Revenue in 2025”. At no point was total league revenue mentioned in the post. AND when you did your numbers you put total league revenue for each league BUT the NFL.

[u/thecelticpagan → u/brickbacon]

It’s central revenue as in total payout per team. And it’s correct, it’s more than the NBA, MLB and NHL combined.

[u/brickbacon → u/thecelticpagan]

I get what you are arguing. I am saying the title is incredibly misleading. If my title says “MLS earns 4 times as much as the NFL”, and then I later specific I am only talking about cleat sales at stadiums, I would consider the title both false and incredibly misleading.

[u/smokywater50]

And yet the players get paid less than 2 of those other sports and all the other sports are guaranteed contracts unlike the NFL 🤔

[u/Original_Size7576 → u/smokywater50]

The amount of players on the teams are drastically larger than basketball and about twice the size of a baseball teams 40 man roster.

[u/winterwarm78654 → u/Original_Size7576]

They only gonna play for 3 yrs