Show notes
The NFL is nearly synonymous with America today. Practically nothing is more quintessentially and universally American than tuning in every Sunday (and Monday, and Thursday… and sometimes Saturdays and holidays too) to watch the world’s most beautiful ballet of violence. It generates the most revenue of any sports league globally and sets new records for team valuations each year. But it wasn’t always this way.
Highlighted moments
Of the top 100 TV broadcasts aired last year, 82 of them were NFL games.
“this is the great paradox of the NFL. Everything is about the game on the field, and nothing is about the game on the field. What it is about is making sure the game on the field is compelling.”
“Unshared revenue for teams grew from 12 percent in 1994 to 21 percent in 2003 and is over 30 percent today.”
“in the first year of the relationship, September of 23 to September of 24, the NFL added 4 million female fans. The Chiefs were 3.4 million of those.”
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