This year saw the immense wealth of all American Rugby teams playing in the US National Rugby League (NFL). In addition to Dallas Cowboys, defending champion last year, New England Patriots, was ranked third by Forbes magazine with $ 3.2 billion.
According to the statistics of this magazine, the average NFL team is worth nearly 2 billion USD, an increase of 38% compared to just one year ago. Each club played here earned $ 39 million more than in 2014, making the average pre-tax profit of each team about $ 76 million, which is led by Dallas Cowboys ($ 270 million). and at least Atlanta Falcons ($ 25 million).
The reason is because the NFL tournament has increased sharply in profits. Although only taking place in North America, this is a professional sports tournament with the most “huge” profits for organizers in the past few decades. Last season, the NFL achieved a record $ 12 billion in revenue. According to research firm IEG, lucrative sponsorship deals from big names like Verizon, Microsoft, PepsiCo, FedEx … also gave US football teams up to 1.15 billion USD, which is also a new record when it increased by 8% compared to 2013.
In addition, the number of American football fans has increased over the past few years, making the percentage of followers on TV has surpassed other famous sports tournaments. Revenue from selling NFL broadcast rights on NBC, CBS, Fox and ESPN TV channels last season was $ 4.4 billion equally divided among 32 teams. This is four times higher than the US $ 1.1 billion earned by the National Baseball League (MLB), and US $ 974 million of the US Professional Basketball League (NBA).
