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America definitely loves their football. I would imagine the sheer volume of games the other sports have compared to football also makes a pretty significant difference.
 
cycart said:
America definitely loves their football. I would imagine the sheer volume of games the other sports have compared to football also makes a pretty significant difference.
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There's probably something to that. The NFL basically owns a day of the week, during its season. And college football pretty much does the same thing on Saturdays.
 
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Mr Janny said:
There's probably something to that. The NFL basically owns a day of the week, during its season. And college football pretty much does the same thing on Saturdays.
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I think the "owns Sundays" thing is the biggest part of their ratings. Other sports can fall on odd nights or at late hours. Most people are at their least busy on Sundays from 1-7. It's easy to have a game on you don't really care about.

I also think fantasy football plays a huge role. You have all kinds of people tuning into games they otherwise wouldn't care about to watch someone on their team.
 
Fantasy football impacts this as well, I know people that never watched the NFL until they got in to fantasy. That has to be one of the best marketing strategies ever.

The NFL is also different in that during most fans lifetime, their team has been a contender. Much more parity than the other sports. It helps cultivate a loyal fan base when you have success. Seemingly every NFL team has a rabid fan base regardless of their record. In the NBA or MLB, only a handful of fans can think that this is their teams year to get it done. You hear all the time that the NFL is a 7 point league, that competitiveness gives fans of every team hope.
 
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Clonefan32 said:
I think the "owns Sundays" thing is the biggest part of their ratings. Other sports can fall on odd nights or at late hours. Most people are at their least busy on Sundays from 1-7. It's easy to have a game on you don't really care about.

I also think fantasy football plays a huge role. You have all kinds of people tuning into games they otherwise wouldn't care about to watch someone on their team.
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There is also more on the line with every game, since both college and NFL have such a small number of games in a season in comparison to baseball and basketball. Whatever happens in game 23 of a 162 game season for MLB or game 30 of a 80+ game season for NBA is probably inconsequential in relation to the team's season.
 
GTO said:
There is also more on the line with every game, since both college and NFL have such a small number of games in a season in comparison to baseball and basketball. Whatever happens in game 23 of a 162 game season for MLB or game 30 of a 80+ game season for NBA is probably inconsequential in relation to the team's season.
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I'd be curious to see the numbers on profitability between the NFL and MLB. The NFL has more yearly revenue, but it's not by a ton. I think some recent numbers I saw showed pro football at making almost $14 billion a year, where MLB is around $10 billion.
But with so many more games, I'm curious if the profit margin is higher for football. I have no idea if that's true or not, but I'd be interested to see the numbers.
 
It does help that there are not a lot of NFL games. MLB has 180 plus games, playoffs, and World Series. NBA has 80 plus games if I remember right. So when an NFL game happens, there is more on the line every week. Baseball if the team loses it's no biggie.
 
Mr Janny said:
I'd be curious to see the numbers on profitability between the NFL and MLB. The NFL has more yearly revenue, but it's not by a ton. I think some recent numbers I saw showed pro football at making almost $14 billion a year, where MLB is around $10 billion.
But with so many more games, I'm curious if the profit margin is higher for football. I have no idea if that's true or not, but I'd be interested to see the numbers.
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I wonder that as well. Player contracts seem to be MLB>NBA>NFL. You would think overall team's profitability would be proportional, but NFL does have more players per team. Then again, do the player contracts for NBA G League and MLB minor leagues get paid by the parent team, or just the affiliates?
 
Knownothing said:
It does help that there are not a lot of NFL games. MLB has 180 plus games, playoffs, and World Series. NBA has 80 plus games if I remember right. So when an NFL game happens, there is more on the line every week. Baseball if the team loses it's no biggie.
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Absolutely. The regular seasons of the NBA, MLB, and NHL are all very watered down, and I think the sports suffer for it. Not sure what can be done about it, though. There's not a chance that they will reduce the number of games, because it will be seen as a loss in revenue.
 
GTO said:
I wonder that as well. Player contracts seem to be MLB>NBA>NFL. You would think overall team's profitability would be proportional, but NFL does have more players per team. Then again, do the player contracts for NBA G League and MLB minor leagues get paid by the parent team, or just the affiliates?
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I'd say that it's mostly due to the number of players on the roster, though. The NFL salary cap for next season will be roughly $190 million. That's significantly more than even the highest MLB team's payroll. And many of those baseball teams are have much, much lower payrolls.
 
Knownothing said:
It does help that there are not a lot of NFL games. MLB has 180 plus games, playoffs, and World Series. NBA has 80 plus games if I remember right. So when an NFL game happens, there is more on the line every week. Baseball if the team loses it's no biggie.
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Unless you miss winning your division by one game and have to play in wild card elimination game...
 
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