In the 80’s and 90’s the san francisco 49ers won a total of five super bowls under Joe montana and steve young. Over the span of two decades this team dominated its competition from montana to young, there seemed to be a steady rate of success through the years. This success caught the attention of a young boy by the name of Tom Brady who idolized the legendary Joe Montana and inspired him to become the quarterback he is today. But just as montana was replaced by a younger Steve Young we are faced with the same predicament in the aging Brady and the younger, fresher Garoppolo.
The article “Taxpayers Have Spent A 'Staggering' Amount of Money On NFL Stadiums” by Travis Waldron draws attention to two main points. First that American Taxpayers spent an estimated seven billion dollars to help construct twenty- nine of the thirty- one NFL stadiums in our country. This placed the risk of bankruptcy on the taxpayers rather than on the league whose annual revenue is more than ten billion dollars. Second, cities in America love their football teams and will spend very large amounts of money to keep their hometown franchises in place. The author finishes the article by saying, “That $7 billion figure will only continue to grow long after the NFL season begins Thursday night” (Waldron).
To most people, the National Football League is merely the provider of Monday night, Thursday night, and Sunday entertainment- professional football. However, George Dohrmann, in his essay “Hooked for Life: Inside the NFL’s Tobacco-Style Strategy To Hook Your Kids,” discusses the aggressive marketing tactics used to sell kids on a dangerous sport. In order to create long-lasting viewers, the league tries to instill the love of the game to elementary-age kids. Dohrmann easily persuades an audience of parents by explaining who is targeting them and their children, why they are being targeted, and how they are being targeted in an ad campaign to allure their kids into playing football. He even offers a seemingly-perfect solution to this dilemma.
Also stated by Forbes that in it’s yearly ranking, NFL groups represent six of the worlds ten most profitable sports establishments and that they are the main alliance in the world with an average group endeavor estimate of well over $1.2 billion. In the year 2008, it consolidated the income of the 32 groups and the total came to the crazy number of $7.6 billion. A large amount of that came from the TV bargains, other key sources are ticket deals, stock deals as well as corporate sponsorships. It is a fact that the NFL has been a cornerstone of development when it comes to professional sports. It completely takes over the TV on Sunday evening, its recreation is constantly put among the most sat in front of the TV programs which was stated by Nielson’s TV
The football that we know today started in 1922 when the American Professional Football Association change its name to the National Football League. The team with the best regular season record was the champion. in 1960 a second national football league was started to compete with the NFL. Eventually it ended up the being two conferences to make up the NFL, the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference. The two implemented a system of playoff games and the champions of the two conferences went head to head in a game called the Superbowl.
According to Amir Somoggi the economic impact of the Super Bowl event is huge, with amounts exceeding $600 million in direct and indirect revenues. These huge figures create jobs for people in the days leading up to the event and after. Example, more Uber drivers are driving visitors around. The Super Bowl also exposes a city’s lack of certain infrastructure like a bigger airport, more hotels and that leads to developers building these types of infrastructure leading to direct jobs in construction as an example.
In the super bowl there are tons of commercials. For super bowl 51 it costed 5million dollars for 1 thirty second add. It is so expensive because of how many people watch the super bowl and if a lot of people watch the super bowl a lot of people get to see you’re commercial. The commercial by Kia witch was 61 second long was about 1 million dollars. The commercial focused helping the environment and showing the smart talk powers of their car and how you can talk through your car without using your phone.
Super Bowl Three is one to remember, especially if you are a New York Jets fan. On January 12, 1969, Super Bowl Three takes place in Florida where the New York Jets play the Baltimore Colts. A bold prediction however is made by New York Jets player, Joe Namath, who seems certain that he knows the outcome of the Super Bowl game. Namath tells reporters and media coverage his prediction, which his prediction ends up being accurate. Even though Joe Namath’s prediction did not seem significant at the time, the prediction had effects on the game of Super Bowl Three, the New York Jets organization, and the realm of the Super Bowl.
When TV broadcasting contracts are make, these bring in even more money which is then paid for by advertisers paying them. All those t-shirts, hats, programs, etc. that you buy all go towards the profit the league and owners make.” The NFL is like the big business of the sports world. And what do big businesses have?
Sunday Night Football in America 8:30 PM ET – TV: NBC Philadelphia Eagles 3-3 @ Carolina Panthers 5-0 Outside of QB Sam Bradford turning the ball over, the Eagles are starting to gain some needed pluses on the ground with RB DeMarco Murray, who finally ran for 100 yards in the Eagles’ 27-7 win over the Giants on Monday. The isolating and neutralizing concepts of HC Chip Kelly’s up-tempo spread offense needs to be at full strength against a hard-nosed Panthers defense that’s solid up front on the D-line and arguably has the best linebacker tandem in Thomas Davis and Luke Kuechly (two forces of DC Sean McDermott’s unit that can run down ball carries, defend the flats and tight ends running the seams). McDermott also has two stout interior gap clogging defensive tackles in Kawann Short and Star Lotulelei, and Kony Ealy, Jared Allen and Mario Addison setting the edge and able to rush the passer. It’s imperative for the weak spot (guards Allen Barbe and Mat Tobin) on the Eagles’ O-line not to allow the Panthers’ front to get penetration to move Bradford off his spots.
The Teams began to build stadiums which helped the sports industry tremendously. “The 19th century had admired its sporting heroes, but the mass media extended their reach, transforming local idols into national celebrities. Many cities built huge football stadiums and baseball parks. The number of Americans attending sports games doubled during the decade.” The sports industry impacted the 1920’s and clearly helped bring in fans and income towards the industry.
A Few Things You Didn 't Know About Super Bowl 50 Super Bowl 50 is set to be an iconic moment in sports history. Over the last few decades, the Super Bowl tradition and hype surrounding it has become even bigger than the event itself. We all know that the winners get a special ring and that television spots go for an obscene amount of money, but if you want to see the game in person you enter a new realm altogether. In fact, there are dozens of unknown facts just about the ticketing for the big game.
As the Super Bowl festivities continue to grow, slowly but surely many of San Francisco’s homeless people are being kicked out of their spots and are being gathered into shelters. In the article published by Alison Vekshin, “San Francisco nudges homeless away from Super Bowl fan village,” she expresses how the media does not want San Francisco to be viewed with poverty so they are kicking out the poor people to make room for activities and media signs that are associated with the Super Bowl. People are focusing too much on what makes them look good, but in reality when people hear about these unbelievable stories they think of them in a wrong way and it makes them look unpropitious. It is very obvious that people only want to see a
Another impact from football are the teams. NFL football teams bring in millions of fans, who bring millions of dollars in revenue to the cities. The NFL teams alone can make the city’s economy flourish. The NFL teams also offer millions of jobs to the people, from referees to maintenance workers (Easterbrook 256) Football also offers many scholarships and programs that helps many people go to colleges of their choice.
“The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.” (Howard Coswell) Football is a game that has been ingrained in the American mind since its foundings in the early 20th century. With 3.5 million people across the states playing the game, 17.6 million absorbing the fierce competition from the stadium, and a whopping 240.1 million viewers taking in televised games behind a screen, football is a way of life.
