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Denver Native (Carol)
07-15-2013, 04:39 PM
from article:



#22 Denver Broncos

Value: $1.132 billion
Owner: Patrick Bowlen

The Broncos made a huge splash in free agency last year by signing QB Peyton Manning (above) to a five-year deal worth $96 million. Manning led the Broncos to the best record in football. The Broncos have a rabid fan base that has sold out every home, nonstrike regular-season game since 1970.

slide show showing all 50 teams - http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2013/07/15/real-madrid-tops-the-worlds-most-valuable-sports-teams/

Joel
07-22-2013, 01:25 PM
Interesting article, but NFL revenue sharing makes raw numbers misleading. In terms of the Broncos relative worth, they're near the middle of a pack whose majority are NFL teams, so near the middle of the NFLs pack—despite selling out every home game for four decades running, when some teams are lucky to sell out HALF their home games. It's clear the days of NFL teams getting most revenue from stadium receipts went out with bobby socks and tailfins: As soon as pro football became a TV sport, that and merchandise became its most profitable aspects.

Yet the article's most interesting for ample subtext. Revenue sharing's why the top 50 has 30 NFL teams and the other two are 51st and 52nd. Flagship franchises (e.g. the Cowboys and Steelers) basically subsidize about half a dozen weak teams (e.g. the Jags and Cards) to sell more merchandise, TV deals and tickets to another home game or two. Teams share everything but stadium revenue, but even that's not simple, because host cities partly own most stadiums (and thus their revenue.)

In that one unshared area profits vary widely; the article names the Glazer familys $3 billion Manchester United the worlds second most valuable team (it was first in 2012,) but their Buccaneers are 2nd to last in NFL attendance, blacking out all but two 2012 home games. It's a common story: Cincy had six 2011 blackouts (though just one in 2012,) while the Bolts and Bills averaged three apiece in as many years. It's a safe bet merchandise sells no better, so teams like Denver and Pitt (which have sold out every home game since the early '70s) must make up those losses to keep playing teams like Atlanta.

New US teams can't raise anything but stadium receipts (which current owners wouldn't get a cent of) so there's no incentive for US expansion. Revenue sharing hides the reality several NFL teams are money pits—but the owners see the balance sheets and know the truth, so they have no interest in wasting (more) money propping up more small market US expansion teams unlikely to profit for a decade or more.

THAT'S why the list is interesting: Over half of it's NFL teams (a mere two just miss the cut,) but its average MLB team is worth more than an average NFL team—and its average UEFA team TWICE as much. The top three are UEFA, with just one NFL team (Dallas) in (the bottom of) the top five. Those soccer team profits match 1/4th the NFLs whole 32; put another way, the top three soccer teams=half an NFL CONFERENCE.

That may surprise some Americans, but not the rest of the world, nor NFL owners desperately seeking a piece of that action. Reebok, Under Armour (note spelling) and even Chevy prefer Ronaldos endorsement to PFMs because, between Europe and South America, it reaches three times as many fans (read: Consumers,) and European ones have as much or more disposable income as Americans. It doesn't take Malcolm Glazers access to Man U and Bucs financial reports to see the NFL's at or past marginal returns in the US, while an equally lucrative European market remains completely unexploited.

At least the Yankees and Dodgers sell caps here, and if that's mainly due to their location, not sport, the NY Giants could do the same, but the only Giants caps I've seen are from SF. Though one might benefit from moving to San Antonio (it's certainly odd NY and FL have three teams yet much larger football-crazed TX just two,) attendance will probably, eventually, drive the Bolts or Jags to L.A. and that will be it for the US.

It's a symptom of a larger issue: Recent decades pushed US revenue streams to the limit until, though still quite profitable, there are few means to raise US profits much: Nearly all US money is spoken for, so those seeking ever higher profits must turn elsewhere. For labor and production that's where both are cheapest (i.e. the Third World,) but for consumers and revenue it's where both are fattest (i.e. Europe and Japan.) Europe, or rather, the Blue Banana and European Sun Belt, is especially appealing because most European residents and wealth are concentrated there; it's the marketing motherlode.

ShaneFalco
07-22-2013, 01:27 PM
Interesting article, but NFL revenue sharing makes raw numbers misleading. In terms of the Broncos relative worth, they're near the middle of a pack whose majority are NFL teams, so near the middle of the NFLs pack—despite selling out every home game for four decades running, when some teams are lucky to sell out HALF their home games. It's clear the days of NFL teams getting most revenue from stadium receipts went out with bobby socks and tailfins: As soon as pro football became a TV sport, that and merchandise became its most profitable aspects.

Yet the article's most interesting for ample subtext. Revenue sharing's why the top 50 has 30 NFL teams and the other two are 51st and 52nd. Flagship franchises (e.g. the Cowboys and Steelers) basically subsidize about half a dozen weak teams (e.g. the Jags and Cards) to sell more merchandise, TV deals and tickets to another home game or two. Teams share everything but stadium revenue, but even that's not simple, because host cities partly own most stadiums (and thus their revenue.)

In that one unshared area profits vary widely; the article names the Glazer familys $3 billion Manchester United the worlds second most valuable team (it was first in 2012,) but their Buccaneers are 2nd to last in NFL attendance, blacking out all but two 2012 home games. It's a common story: Cincy had six 2011 blackouts (though just one in 2012,) while the Bolts and Bills averaged three apiece in as many years. It's a safe bet merchandise sells no better, so teams like Denver and Pitt (which have sold out every home game since the early '70s) must make up those losses to keep playing teams like Atlanta.

New US teams can't raise anything but stadium receipts (which current owners wouldn't get a cent of) so there's no incentive for US expansion. Revenue sharing hides the reality several NFL teams are money pits—but the owners see the balance sheets and know the truth, so they have no interest in wasting (more) money propping up more small market US expansion teams unlikely to profit for a decade or more.

THAT'S why the list is interesting: Over half of it's NFL teams (a mere two just miss the cut,) but its average MLB team is worth more than an average NFL team—and its average UEFA team TWICE as much. The top three are UEFA, with just one NFL team (Dallas) in (the bottom of) the top five. Those soccer team profits match 1/4th the NFLs whole 32; put another way, the top three soccer teams=half an NFL CONFERENCE.

That may surprise some Americans, but not the rest of the world, nor NFL owners desperately seeking a piece of that action. Reebok, Under Armour (note spelling) and even Chevy prefer Ronaldos endorsement to PFMs because, between Europe and South America, it reaches three times as many fans (read: Consumers,) and European ones have as much or more disposable income as Americans. It doesn't take Malcolm Glazers access to Man U and Bucs financial reports to see the NFL's at or past marginal returns in the US, while an equally lucrative European market remains completely unexploited.

At least the Yankees and Dodgers sell caps here, and if that's mainly due to their location, not sport, the NY Giants could do the same, but the only Giants caps I've seen are from SF. Though one might benefit from moving to San Antonio (it's certainly odd NY and FL have three teams yet much larger football-crazed TX just two,) attendance will probably, eventually, drive the Bolts or Jags to L.A. and that will be it for the US.

It's a symptom of a larger issue: Recent decades pushed US revenue streams to the limit until, though still quite profitable, there are few means to raise US profits much: Nearly all US money is spoken for, so those seeking ever higher profits must turn elsewhere. For labor and production that's where both are cheapest (i.e. the Third World,) but for consumers and revenue it's where both are fattest (i.e. Europe and Japan.) Europe, or rather, the Blue Banana and European Sun Belt, is especially appealing because most European residents and wealth are concentrated there; it's the marketing motherlode.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYpXxRWHLNs

Poet
07-24-2013, 06:47 PM
I didn't think Cincinnati would be on that list. That's shocking.

Ravage!!!
07-25-2013, 09:57 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYpXxRWHLNs

How about infinity TIMES infinity?