[calenel]

If every ticket to every game was sold; every seat in every stadium filled, it would still barely cover the salaries of the players. Since that isn't true of many teams - only a few reliably fill their stadiums every single game - probably more than a few of them don't even cover their players' salaries by ticket sales.

They make more money from television. Something like 6 billion last year, I believe, which all the teams split equally (which is how some teams can survive disastrous season after disastrous season).

So, the bottom line is this - every viewer that boycotts the NFL, and every person that writes a letter to an NFL advertiser, affects the NFL's bottom line. If not this year - maybe they have already gotten their money from the advertisers and licensed vendors - then it will next year, or the year after. At some point they will realize they are whistling past the graveyard and end this nonsense. May already be too late for them.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Good advice, especially when you realize that some teams are simply “loss-leaders” for the owners larger business. The Detroit Lions come to mind.

Madame Ford doesn’t care about wins-and-losses. As long as the Ford name is associated with the team, they’ll keep playing in Ford Field.

BTW, did you know that the Ford F150 is the best selling pick-up in North America?