Would legalized betting save the NFL?

[RoofTop]

Attendance and viewership is down..

Is this the only thing that can save it?

 

[halekulani]

save it from what

http://nationalpost.com/sports/foot...-goodell-working-on-5-year-contract-extension

The San Francisco 49ers, for instance? They were worth $699 million in 2005. Last year: $3 billion. And on you can go.Denver Broncos: $994 million in 2005, $2.4 billion last year.
Oakland Raiders: $676 million in 2005, $2.1 billion last year.
Even the Buffalo Bills have more than doubled in value in that time, from $708 million to $1.5 billion.


Goodell first and foremost turned revenue streams into raging rivers. In 2010 — a year in which the league raked in $8.5 billion — Goodell famously announced the goal of $25 billion in annual league revenues by 2027.
Those revenues topped $14 billion last season. Well on their way.
Goodell, then, not only has made his billionaire owners more billions, under his stewardship many owners themselves actually became billionaires

nfl revenues continue to grow annually
owners are making money regardless

 

[G.MONEY]

save it from what

http://nationalpost.com/sports/foot...-goodell-working-on-5-year-contract-extension

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nfl revenues continue to grow annually
owners are making money regardless

But if Viewership continues to sink those BIG money TV contracts will not be there, and my guess is that's were much of there revenues come from

 

[HacheMan]

There's more money in it for the NFL & more interest from fans if sports betting were legal.

Everybody knows it including the world's biggest hypocrites, the NFL themselves...

 

[metro]

there needs to be a giant section where smoking of everything including marijuana is legal.. basically any behavior goes.. then fans will begin returning

 

[metro]

everyone i know likes to get baked while watching the game ( they all have medical cards they should be able to smoke in their seat as its their medicine no different than someone with high blood pressure) .... noone wants to get baked in a van hiding from security.. want to get fried as they watch

 

[eventhorizon]

No it would not. It is funny that people think someone who make legal bets will watch more than people who make illegal bets.

 

[metro]

agreed horizon .. its being able to smoke marijuana while watching from your seat as u would at your couch that people care about

 

[RoofTop]

$10 beer and $5 water is turning me away

 

[tatehill2000]

The 65 minute fuking walk from my car to my seats kind of is a pain in the Dik

 

[halekulani]

But if Viewership continues to sink those BIG money TV contracts will not be there, and my guess is that's were much of there revenues come from

amazon paid 50 mil to stream 10 games of thursday night football (twitter paid 10 mil) and thursday night football has been fucking awful

tv networks and media companies are still raking in tons of advertising cash
i wouldn't be surprised if we saw a amazon/netflix/hulu bidding war for sunday or monday night football in the future

 

[3peet]

I really don't understand the narrative. All this news and stats of viewership down, yet every motherfucker you know talks about the game come Monday morning. Everyone going nuts in August because the season is around the corner. Fantasy football and Fan Duel is through the roof! My entire office staff (from all walks of life) belong to some form of Fantasy Football league.

Viewership being down is pure bullshit. There's your fakenews.

 

[CarolinaKid]

on the flip side if it was not for the under table gambling on the nfl for all these yrs, nobody would give a crap about the nfl today, it a very bad product

 

[CarolinaKid]

the nfl has imo cause a lot of people to lose everything, their jobs, homes, wife or girlfriend because at a young age it look to easy and was the thing to do, bet on the nfl

 

[3peet]

the nfl has imo cause a lot of people to lose everything, their jobs, homes, wife or girlfriend because at a young age it look to easy and was the thing to do, bet on the nfl

Amen. I know a guy (family man) who blew his head off in his car. Was in the hole $30k

Sad

 

[CarolinaKid]

imo i never want to see gambling legal here, you only just have to go and watch the people in line these days buying your local lotto tickets, very sad

 

[packer2012]

Agree Carolina. And even the "Average Ignorant Joe" has to understand that odds on the lottos are beyond impossible.

 

[HacheMan]

the nfl has imo cause a lot of people to lose everything, their jobs, homes, wife or girlfriend because at a young age it look to easy and was the thing to do, bet on the nfl

Amen. I know a guy (family man) who blew his head off in his car. Was in the hole $30k

Sad

But guys just like anything else in life, some ppl have no self discipline.

Ppl do it with alcohol, with drugs, with eating, and many other things.

I've even heard of guys who have an addiction to strip clubs & blow every dime weekly instead of paying their bills.

It's not the hobby or recreation that's the problem.

The problem is the few people who have no control over themselves...

 

[3peet]

Watching guys cash their payroll checks at the casino is awkward.

 

[packer2012]

Watching guys cash their payroll checks at the casino is awkward.

Not nearly as awkward as watching what happens next! LMAO