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The NFL Players Mentioned Most on “SportsCenter”.
TIM TEBOW
On “SportsCenter,” there was Tebow and then there was everyone else. After the Broncos’ sixth consecutive win, he was mentioned more than 40 times in the next morning’s edition of the show
BILL BELICHICK
The anchors were mostly reverent when describing the Patriots’ coach,mentioning his secrecy, calling him “tremendous” and a “mastermind.”
NDAMUKONG SUH
The most mentioned defensive player, Suh made the list mostly because of his two-game suspension for stamping on an opponent’s arm during Detroit’s game against the Green Bay Packers on Nov. 24.
KYLE ORTON
In November, Orton went to Kansas City after losing a quarterback battle to Tim Tebow, leading to talk of a potential matchup between the former teammates. He and Tebow did face off in Denver on Jan. 1 — and that time, Orton won.
PEYTON MANNING
Despite going the entire season without taking a snap, Manning was discussed more than most of the league’s active players — even more than his younger brother, Eli, who led the Giants to Sunday’s Super Bowl.
How a Wilson leather football is made in Ada, Ohio. Wilson is the only genuine leather football manufacturer in the United States
Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys takes us on a tour of Cowboys Stadium, home of Super Bowl XLV featuring the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers.
- Cost $1.5 billion
- Seating capacity of 80,000 4th largest in NFL
- Largest attendance for an NFL game 105,121 [vs. Giants]
- Set NBA attendance record of 108,713 [All-Star Game]
- Largest domed stadium in the world
- Largest high definition video screen- weighs 600 tons, is 180 feet long and 72 feet tall, made of 10.5 million LED
- There are 268 concession points
- There at 1,600 toilets
- There are 18 elevators, 10 staircases and 22 escalators
- There is no public transit to the stadium, parking is $40.00 for one of the 30,000 available spaces, thats $1.2 million a game if every spot is sold
As investors in Los Angeles continue to make their case for an NFL team, Farmers Insurance has gone ahead and secured the naming rights of the proposed downtown LA stadium for 30 years at a value of $600 million; the name, “Farmers Field.”
The funny thing about this deal is that the proposed 1.7 million square foot, 68,000-seat, $1 billion football stadium located in downtown as part of LA Live has no architect, no site approvals and no NFL team. Considering how tortured the attempt to return an NFL franchise to Los Angeles has been, the confidence exhibited by both parties that an NFL team will play in Farmers Field is either a remarkable display of bravado or an indication that the deal for another NFL team to move there is fait accompli. So, a leading question is whether Farmers pays the same whether or not an NFL team plays on its field.
For the LA sports fans who dreams about the NFL’s return to the City of Angels this could signify a big step in the right direction. Now all that is needed is an actual team.
Hawaii’s New Industry: Sports
Q: Do you know what the NFL Pro Bowl, PGA golf tournaments, EA Sports Maui Invitational (college basketball), Pipeline Masters, Honolulu Marathon, Iron Man, College Football Games all have in common?
A: They all have a huge economic impact within the islands of Hawaii
Before I begin to educate you on what could be Hawaii’s newest industry let me start by defining a sports fan
Sports fan- noun: an enthusiastic devotee of sports…
A.K.A. Someone that generates a continuous flow of money, “cash cow.”
For the state of Hawaii the traveling sports enthusiast are the cash cow of all tourist segments whether state officials recognize it or not. You may be asking yourself, ‘why should a state covet a group of sports hooligans who only visit on certain weekend of the year?’ Well let me tell you, they spend money and LOTS of it- according to the Utah Sports Commission sports are over a $1 trillion a year industry with and additional $700 billion spent in outdoors and recreation.
With perfect year round weather, a competitive natural environment and the friendliest of people the opportunity for economic growth through sports is huge and one that the state must invest more in now while they still can.
Currently the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) allocates between $7 million and $8 million a year to develop sports tourism, with over half of this investment is paid out to the NFL Pro Bowl- $4 million, and the PGA Tour tournaments- $1.7 million, for marketing, hosting rights and the opportunity to showcase the islands in the middle of America’s frigid winter.
As a result of these marketing efforts traveling fans spend over $28 million locally during Pro Bowl weekend. Additionally, while it is difficult to measure the amount of tourism created by the sheer exposure of the islands by the internationally televised game the economic value of the Pro Bowl could easily exceed $50 million.
There is more to Hawaii sports than the NFL as visitors who participant in sports are a huge revenue generator for the state as well. A study by SRI International estimated that 12.5 percent of out-of-state visitors to Hawaii or international travelers golf once or twice during their visits, amounting to nearly 100,000 golf-related trips yearly, with golfing travelers spending more than twice a day that spent by non-golfers. Thus these financials justify the $1.7 million PGA investment by the HTA as the total value of the golf industry in Hawaii is $1 billion alone.
In addition to golfers, marathon runners, especially those from Japan love to spend money. A report prepared for the Honolulu Marathon by Hawaii Pacific University’s Travel Industry Management program says 21,885 of the 28,635 registered runners in the 2010 race were visitors, and that 17,905 of them were from Japan. The study says the marathon generated more than $100 million in economic impact, based on estimates of visitor spending per day. And for the more extreme marathon runners the Iron Man has been an important revenue source for Kailua-Kona for over 30 years.
Local sports are an important part of inter-island commerce as Hawaii’s community hosts several surfing, paddling, open-water swimming and several other competitions including the Na Wahine O Ke Kai and the Molokai Hoe throughout the year. Michael Story, brand manager for the HTA says that the HTA indirectly supports island ocean sports, “because events like these are significant in their realm — arguably the world championships of their events — and so significant to our culture and community and important for our destination.” Also these sports participants have the power to influence an events success on the islands.
As you can see the chance to leverage the 50th state as THE marquee location for any sporting event is now. By leveraging tax incentives similar to the film and entertainment industry Hawaii could be financial competitive to cities such as Miami and Los Angeles whether it is an AYSO soccer tournament, a better University of Hawaii football team/matchup or secondary endemic event. This unique financial growth opportunity is at an all time high as leagues and fans renegotiate valuable contracts with potential host cities around the world; the time to act is now.
It should also be noted that in 2008 the state approved $185 million for improvements to the aging Aloha Stadium.
Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser and Hawaii Tourism Authority
If the NFL regular season were to end today this is how the playoff’s would match up.
Note the Jaguars, Giants, Bucs and Seahawks are all still in the hunt.
For several years, a small group of dedicated football enthusiasts have taken to their Tecmo Bowl (NES) or Tecmo Super Bowl (SNES) emulators and devoted themselves to quick videogame re-enactments of actual NFL and NCAA highlights. The results, especially when paired up with the actual TV or radio call, can be pure lo-fi genius. In this clip the group reenacts Eagle’s DeSean Jackson’s game winning punt return against the Giants this past Sunday as time expired in regulation.
More examples: Wired
Basic Breakdown: NBA and NFL 2011 Impending Lockouts
The year 2011 is quickly gaining on us and with it the probability of a NBA and NFL lockout are starting to come to fruition even before their current seasons are over.
The grounds for these potential lockouts:
Lets take a moment to compare the different factors, issues and effects between an NBA and NFL lockout.
Last Lockout
NBA: 1998 (shorter season- 50 games played)
NFL: 1987 (1 game cancelled, replacement players used)
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Current League State
NBA: 30 teams- league will lose approximately $400 million this season
NFL: 32 teams- average operating income of $33.5 million per team last season ($1.06 billion total), fan interest sky rocketing
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Grounds for Lockout
NBA: Owners want a 33% reduction in salaries, about $700-800 million and establish a set salary cap with no exceptions
NFL: Players currently receive 60%, or $4.6 billion, of the $7.8 billion in football generated revenue for 2010. Owners want to decrease players share by 18% to 42%.
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Average Salaries (2009)
NBA: $5.8 million, 1st amongst major US sports leagues
NFL: $1.8 million, 4th highest
**MLB: $2.9 million, NHL: $1.9 million
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Economic Impact
NBA: 1,500 jobs per city, due to length of the season the financial impact of millions of dollars would be spread out over seven months. In 1998 players lost $500 million and owners $1 billion
NFL: Average loss $20 million in revenue per game ($160M in local spending for the season), a lose of about 3,000 jobs per city, $3 billion in television ad revenues, and billions more in merchandising, licensing, fantasy…
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Long-term Effects
NBA and NFL: TBD but decrease in fan loyalty, team/league revenues and engaged audiences will be imminent especially if both the NBA and NFL are simultaneously locked out.
CASE: 1994-95 MLB lockout resulted in aggressive fan behavior, years of decreased ticket sales and television ratings, and only 5,245 fans at the Yankees Opening Game.
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Winners of a Lockout: MLB, NHL and MLS
Sports fans will seek alternative sports to fill the void of the NBA and NFL games. As a result MLB and MLS playoffs and the NHL season opening day will be the primary focus of sports programming and news during a time that is usually focused on the start of the NBA and NFL seasons. NOTE: The Steelers vs. Saints Sunday Night Football game had better ratings than Game 4 of the Giants vs. Rangers World Series.
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Sources:
Reuters- Players Prepare for Lockout
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Eagles WR DeSean Jackson celebrates his 91yd Touchdown. I don’t think the Cowboys were laughing at this one. It cost the Eagles 15yd on the kick-off.
NFL Parity
The graphic below shows a circular progression of NFL parity based on head-to-head wins and losses.
Here’s how to read it: Viewing it clockwise, the team that comes first beat the team next to them who, in turn, beat the team next to them. It’s not as confusing as it sounds. Look at the Steelers logo at the top. The Steelers beat the Falcons 15-9. The Falcons beat the Bucs 27-21. The Bucs beat the Browns 17-14. And so on and so forth.
This is the same sort of circular logic that college football fans use when they back-trail a team’s losses to produce a dubious top team. For instance: Murray State beat Tennessee Tech who beat Jacksonville State who beat Mississippi who beat Kentucky who beat South Carolina who beat Alabama who may beat Auburn; ergo Murray State should be national champions. That’s always fun.
As is this. It’s a pretty cool way to spend a few minutes, if only to wonder how on earth the Bengals beat the Ravens.
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via Yahoo! Sports and reddit.com
The Super Bowl is the mother of all sporting events.
Unfortunately for football and sports fans alike admission to the big game is nearly impossible as there are no public ticket sales and ticket allocations greatly favor corporate sponsors and the organization of the participating team:
74.8 percent of tickets are split among the NFL teams
- 5 percent to the host city’s team
- 17.5 percent to the AFC champion
- 17.5 percent to the NFC champion
- 34.8 percent are distributed among the remaining teams (1.2 percent per team)
25.2 percent of all Super Bowl tickets are controlled by the NFL for companies, sponsors and networks=
As someone who longs to be surrounded by the Super Bowl festivities, 30,000 camera flashes and a sky full of confetti it would probably be in my best interest to not share with you how to get tickets to the big game… but I am going to anyways.
Option 1: Send a certified letter to the NFL between Feb. 1 and June 1 of the year preceding the Super Bowl you’d like to attend. Only one entry for a given address is accepted before a random drawing is held. This is the only means for the general public to purchase tickets at their face value.
Option 2: Be a season ticket holder. Two weeks before the game season ticket holders can enter a lottery; additionally season ticket holder of a team playing in the Super Bowl you’ll have a better chance as the ticket allotment is bigger (17.5% of total tickets)
Option 3: Buy them from a scalper or ticket brocker but be prepared to sell your first and second child, that expensive gold watch or cash in your retirement savings.
Third party ticket prices for 2010 Super Bowl
- NFL On Location — $2,399 to $6,599
- Stubhub — $2,029 to $323,528
- Razorgator — $1,846 to $315,401
- eBay — $1,350 to $343,850
Option 4: Enter a promotional drawing, lottery or sweepstakes from a sponsor such as Verizon, Visa or Southwest
When all else fails find yourself the biggest HD television and surround your self by as many friends and family as possible. Chances are you’ll have the best view of the game and save your self thousands of dollars.
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Source: How to Get Super Bowl Tickets via Guy Kawasaki
