Hope you can wait till 2022 cause that’s when the tv contracts are up,
The NFL’s gravy train rolls on: today it announced nine-year extensions to its broadcast television packages with Fox, NBC and CBS under which the networks are expected to pay roughly 60% more. The new agreements will run through the 2022 season as the current deals expire after the 2013 season.
Each network gets the rights to three Super Bowls and NBC maintains its flexible schedule on Sunday nights during the second half of the season. NBC will also add the Thanksgiving primetime game starting in 2014.
Financial terms have not been released, but the three networks are expected to pay roughly $3 billion a year on average annually compared to the current $1.93 billion they collectively pay. ESPN re-upped its deal with the NFL earlier this year at an annual rate of $1.9 billion. Factor in other media deals with the NFL Network, DirectTV ($1 billion annually), Westwood One radio and others, and NFL teams will divvy up nearly $7 billion in media money starting in 2014. That is more than $200 million per team every year before one ticket, beer or jersey is sold.
meanwhile cities pony up a billion here a billion there for stadiums for these teams/.