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11. I believe the tax structure is abused by the NFL, facts are jumbled.

But the NFL goes one better by having developed a revenue machine through creating intellectual property, licensing logos and names for merchandising, negotiating deals for televising games, and running the schedule of games, including producing the Super Bowl. And that machine is a printing press for money:

Revenue for the league, not counting what the teams made, was $255.3 million.
The top eight league officials made a total of $50.1 million in 2011 from the NFL or related organizations, with commissioner Roger Goodell seeing about $29.5 million in his paycheck.
The league received another $10.4 million (including nearly $7.6 million to former commissioner Paul Tagliabue).
In 2011, the NFL paid $35.9 million for office construction, $13.5 million in office rent, $6.7 in IT consulting, and $6.7 million in travel expenses.
Total travel expenses topped $11 million.
It had notes and loans owed to it of nearly $620.8 million.
For all the income, expenses were even higher at almost $333 million.
The organization spent more than $1.5 million on lobbying.

So the other $8.75 billion is revenue split among the individual teams who have their own expenses. No doubt they are receiving various taxpayer supported breaks, but the revenue is still subject to normal expanses (like salaries which are then subject to tax), and at some point in the accounting they pay tax like any other business. Is it fair? Probably not, but then most of the way large businesses are treated is not fair.