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NFL Executive Summary

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The NFL is a financial giant in the world of entertainment. Sports are a booming international industry that continues to grow and evolve. The NFL is at the forefront of the sports marketing world. Through stadiums and television the NFL is able generate massive revenue and profits for its franchises, players, and league offices. A quick overview of television contracts, collective bargaining agreements, salaries, and revenues shows us how the NFL is able to maintain a level of continued success that many professional sports leagues try to emulate.

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The balance sheet provided below by details operating revenues and is a good summary of what generates revenue for a large portion of the NFL front office. You can also see from the balance sheet that general and administrative expenses comprised the biggest expense for the business. The salaries of the executives and commissioner being as large as they are along with giant source of revenue that the league creates it is astounding that they operate as a not-for profit. The biggest portion of the revenue for the league is generated through television and media. In 2010 the rights to air the NFL product was nearly 700 million dollars. By the year 2012
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Networks were paying the NFL nearly 4 billion dollars a year which is a more than 400% increase in that portion of the generated revenue (Crupi, 2011). The networks that broadcast the NFL games also generate large sums of revenue through ads. Fox is estimated to generate nearly 980 million dollars a year through ads during NFL games being broadcast on those networks ( Crupi,

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