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Forbes 2021 NFL franchise values


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The Bills rank dead last. This only further substantiates the idea that the Pegula’s will probably have to receive fairly substantial public funding for a new stadium. The franchise (as a business) simply can’t generate enough operating income to suggest that a Billion dollar plus stadium needs to be paid for through the team’s profitability.

 

The harsh reality is that Buffalo has an NFL team thanks to a bit of a fluke of history. 

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47 minutes ago, Beast said:

Wow that is harsh from a business economic sense.  I wonder how many college programs if valued in a similar way would be higher then the Bills...

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16 minutes ago, RoyBatty is alive said:

I dont think so either but dont think they arent going to leverage this, I certainly would if I were them.  Austin is UT country for NFL it is 70% Cowboy with a sprinkiling of Texan fans, Jerry Jones doesnt want a team so close.

agreed.  the only problem with leveraging this is a negative reaction from some fans...but i suppose all of that will quickly resolve once the new construction moves forward.

 

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1 hour ago, DJB said:

 

I imagine we would vault near the top once they build that new stadium in Austin TX? 🤔

Doesn't it make sense just to sublet from Dallas.  Just schedule for Dallas 'away' weeks?🤔😁

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EDIT: If the Bills were the Chargers, they probably wouldn't even have to sublet!  Just sneak in, play, clean up, skulk out.  Nobody watches the Chargers! 😁

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2 minutes ago, Tortured Soul said:

If they invested in an S&P fund instead, they'd have over $3 billion now.

True.  But we don’t know what they’ve made in profit from the Bills though (dividends are included in S&P returns).  Those profits could’ve been reinvested in the S&P or something else.  Plus owning the Bills likely had a positive impact on some of their other investments.  And soon the team’s value will be further increased by the new (probably heavily subsidized) stadium.

 

The ultimate answer of which would've been the better investment is very complicated and ever changing, but your point that it isn’t out of line with other investments is a good one.  My main point was that even the lowest valued team in the league is doing pretty darn well, so buying an NFL team has been a very safe and very profitable investment.  I think that’s hard to argue against. 

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22 minutes ago, Tortured Soul said:

If they invested in an S&P fund instead, they'd have over $3 billion now.

True, but when's the last time the missus got to dress up an S&P fund in those red pajama uniforms?  You just can't put a price on some things. 😁

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10 minutes ago, BarleyNY said:

True.  But we don’t know what they’ve made in profit from the Bills though (dividends are included in S&P returns).  Those profits could’ve been reinvested in the S&P or something else.  Plus owning the Bills likely had a positive impact on some of their other investments.  And soon the team’s value will be further increased by the new (probably heavily subsidized) stadium.

Yeah, it wasn't meant as a serious point, just some context. I actually left out dividends - if they reinvested dividends, they'd have $3.4 billion.

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The bills have more operating income than Cincinnati, Tennessee, Cleveland , and Arizona , and giants and bears and jets

 

And these are estimates. You're worth what somebody's willing to pay... The bills were valued at a lot less than what Terry pagula paid for us

 

 

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