{"id":296123,"date":"2011-03-09T17:41:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T17:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/09\/inside-the-nfls-9-3-billion-machine\/"},"modified":"2011-03-09T17:41:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T17:41:30","slug":"inside-the-nfls-9-3-billion-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/09\/inside-the-nfls-9-3-billion-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the NFL&#8217;s $9.3 billion machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"46\">Just how lucrative is the NFL? While the league won&#8217;t divulge exactly how its <b>$9.3 billion<\/b> pie breaks down (a sticking point in the ongoing labor talks), that figure is roughly equivalent to the GDP of Macedonia, and slightly more than eBay&#8217;s 2010 revenues.<\/p>\n<p>For a further sense of its vastness, consider that the GFP is not much smaller than the estimated revenues of major league baseball (<b>$6 billion<\/b> to <b>$7 billion<\/b>), the NBA (<b>$3 billion<\/b> to <b>$4 billion<\/b>), and the NHL (<b>$1 billion<\/b>) <i>combined.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the major drivers behind the booming football economy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/6398d75floading.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/money_topstories\/~3\/KoBLPADEx00\/index.html\" title=\"Inside the NFL's $9.3 billion machine\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inside the NFL&#8217;s $9.3 billion machine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Just how lucrative is the NFL? While the league won&#8217;t divulge exactly how its $9.3 billion pie breaks down (a sticking point in the ongoing labor talks), that figure is roughly equivalent to the GDP of Macedonia, and slightly more than eBay&#8217;s 2010 revenues. For a further sense of its vastness, consider that the GFP is not much smaller than the estimated revenues of major league baseball ( $6 billion to $7 billion ), the NBA ( $3 billion to $4 billion ), and the NHL ( $1 billion ) combined. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Inside the NFL&#039;s $9.3 billion machine - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/09\/inside-the-nfls-9-3-billion-machine\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Inside the NFL&#039;s $9.3 billion machine - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Just how lucrative is the NFL? 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