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> NFL is the biggest sports in the entire world by revenue by far Source on this? I can't imagine this being true compared to soccer.

simmanian 8y ago
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-nfl-made-13-billion-last-season-see-how-it-stacks-up-against-other-leagues-2016-07-01 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-nfl-made-13-billion-la...
conception 8y ago
It's not. ~NFL = ~Champions League.
astura 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_sports_leagues_by_revenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_sports_le... NFL had €11,394 million (over eleven billion Euro) in revenue in 2017 whereas the Premier League had €5,340 million (over five billion Euro) in revenue for 2016–17. MLB and the NBA also beat out the Premier League in revenue. EDIT: OK, OK, I thought the GP was talking about sports LEAGUES not NFL vs sports as a whole. I read "sports league."
- renjimen 8y ago
  The Premier League is one league in a country of fewer than 70 million people. Try adding up all the leagues across Europe for a fairer comparison. Then it's no contest - football (the one played with feet) takes it
  - astura 8y ago
    I thought the claim was the NFL was the "biggest" sports LEAGUE in the world not "biggest" sport - "NFL" isn't a sport, it's a sports league. The NFL isn't the only American football league and I even heard that Vince McMahon is thinking about reviving XFL;. EDIT: Vince McMahon is planning on reviving the XFL in 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFL_(2020)#Revival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFL_(2020)#Revival
    - wolco 8y ago
      College football is huge. Arena football is popular as well.
- aurelius12 8y ago
  "Soccer" brings in more revenue American football, baseball, and basketball....combined. This article's 5 years old, but still relevant: https://mic.com/articles/91009/soccer-s-global-dominance-of-sports-in-3-simple-charts#.p33miZkvy https://mic.com/articles/91009/soccer-s-global-dominance-of-...
- microtherion 8y ago
  The NFL is the biggest LEAGUE by revenue, but soccer is by far the bigger SPORT. Just add up the revenues from all the national leagues. To my knowledge, there is only one other professional league in the world (in Canada) that plays (more or less) the same sport as the NFL.
  - Retric 8y ago
    NFL is also used as a shortcut for a sport as it’s got different rules than high school or college football, and the both share a name with Soccer.
    - diminoten 8y ago
      Rulesets aren't what bound a "sport".
      - Retric 8y ago
        Define something else that does. Now, you may call something very similar the same sport, but a 100m vs 400m sprints are really different races even with just one slightly different number.
        diminoten 8y ago
        You're confusing event with category. NFL and NCAA Football are different events, but the same sport. 100m and 400m races are different events, same sport.
        Retric 8y ago
        You play chess and checkers on the same board but they are different games. The rules are extremely different between the NFL and NCAA. People discuss the “NBA’s” 24 shot clock vs the NCAA’s more leisurely 35 seconds which among other things has a dramatic difference in how the two different games are played. Which was my original point, when the only people using a set of rules are in one org the names become interchangeable. If you never compete it’s not clear how seemingly subtle rule changes have dramic impact. This changes not only game strategy but also things like how far people travel over the course of the game. 400m at a full sprint takes real endurance where 100m is mostly about acceleration. Top athletes may have many skills that crossover to different sports, but these are very different games.
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simmanian 8y ago

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-nfl-made-13-billion-last-season-see-how-it-stacks-up-against-other-leagues-2016-07-01 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-nfl-made-13-billion-la...

conception 8y ago

It's not. ~NFL = ~Champions League.

astura 8y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_sports_leagues_by_revenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_sports_le... NFL had €11,394 million (over eleven billion Euro) in revenue in 2017 whereas the Premier League had €5,340 million (over five billion Euro) in revenue for 2016–17. MLB and the NBA also beat out the Premier League in revenue. EDIT: OK, OK, I thought the GP was talking about sports LEAGUES not NFL vs sports as a whole. I read "sports league."

renjimen 8y ago
The Premier League is one league in a country of fewer than 70 million people. Try adding up all the leagues across Europe for a fairer comparison. Then it's no contest - football (the one played with feet) takes it
- astura 8y ago
  I thought the claim was the NFL was the "biggest" sports LEAGUE in the world not "biggest" sport - "NFL" isn't a sport, it's a sports league. The NFL isn't the only American football league and I even heard that Vince McMahon is thinking about reviving XFL;. EDIT: Vince McMahon is planning on reviving the XFL in 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFL_(2020)#Revival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFL_(2020)#Revival
  - wolco 8y ago
    College football is huge. Arena football is popular as well.
aurelius12 8y ago
"Soccer" brings in more revenue American football, baseball, and basketball....combined. This article's 5 years old, but still relevant: https://mic.com/articles/91009/soccer-s-global-dominance-of-sports-in-3-simple-charts#.p33miZkvy https://mic.com/articles/91009/soccer-s-global-dominance-of-...
microtherion 8y ago
The NFL is the biggest LEAGUE by revenue, but soccer is by far the bigger SPORT. Just add up the revenues from all the national leagues. To my knowledge, there is only one other professional league in the world (in Canada) that plays (more or less) the same sport as the NFL.
- Retric 8y ago
  NFL is also used as a shortcut for a sport as it’s got different rules than high school or college football, and the both share a name with Soccer.
  - diminoten 8y ago
    Rulesets aren't what bound a "sport".
    - Retric 8y ago
      Define something else that does. Now, you may call something very similar the same sport, but a 100m vs 400m sprints are really different races even with just one slightly different number.
      - diminoten 8y ago
        You're confusing event with category. NFL and NCAA Football are different events, but the same sport. 100m and 400m races are different events, same sport.
        Retric 8y ago
        You play chess and checkers on the same board but they are different games. The rules are extremely different between the NFL and NCAA. People discuss the “NBA’s” 24 shot clock vs the NCAA’s more leisurely 35 seconds which among other things has a dramatic difference in how the two different games are played. Which was my original point, when the only people using a set of rules are in one org the names become interchangeable. If you never compete it’s not clear how seemingly subtle rule changes have dramic impact. This changes not only game strategy but also things like how far people travel over the course of the game. 400m at a full sprint takes real endurance where 100m is mostly about acceleration. Top athletes may have many skills that crossover to different sports, but these are very different games.

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