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FSogol

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1. Stocks? NFL teams (with the exception of Green Bay) are owned by billionaires.

Reply to Watchfoxheadexplodes (Original post)

Wed Sep 27, 2017, 01:51 PM

Sep 2017

They aren't publicly traded. Most of the NFL's money is made by licensing fees and tv rights. Even if all the stadiums were empty (which they won't be), it wouldn't hurt them in the short term.

Fox News and social media rots people's brains. hopefully, your cousin will wise up.

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For the sake of arguing with a goofy relative [View all] Watchfoxheadexplodes Sep 2017 OP

Stocks? NFL teams (with the exception of Green Bay) are owned by billionaires. FSogol Sep 2017 #1

Sure. If that actually happened n2doc Sep 2017 #2

If stadium attendance were to drop significantly, PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #3

About Packers Tickets. Wellstone ruled Sep 2017 #4

Maybe genxlib Sep 2017 #5

Tell your cousin gratuitous Sep 2017 #6

Lmao My friends at DU,,,,,,,, Watchfoxheadexplodes Sep 2017 #7

There's a years-long waiting list for Packers tickets. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2017 #8

We paid through the nose for Packers tickets so I could check off one of the things on my bucket redstatebluegirl Sep 2017 #9

Why argue? Obviously on Sunday, one of you will be correct, and one of you will be incorrect? jberryhill Sep 2017 #10

yea, people that laid out thousands of dollars for seats are going to watch it on teevee...... spanone Sep 2017 #11

Nah. It's the same people who you see picking their noses MineralMan Sep 2017 #12

"Why should I care if the stadiums are empty?" is the response. Iggo Sep 2017 #13

Trump always promises big things just about to happen that never do. Orsino Sep 2017 #14

last time the stands were empty they had "replacement" players rurallib Sep 2017 #15