Ben Gilbert
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But it's not that people don't care about those because the NFL brand isn't there.
People don't care about them because it's not good football.
It all comes back to cornered resource.
It's like totally fascinating that the government thinks it's good enough for the country to issue an antitrust exemption.
It's like, well, having a big popular sports league is good for us.
So let's enable that to be as big as possible.
Yeah, there's no way you could spend the amount of money it takes to produce a good NFL game without the audience that they have to justify that level of cost.
I think it's about $44 million per game is effectively what the average broadcast partner is paying the NFL just for like one single game.
If you're the NFL, if you can go make $44 million by making a game happen, and that doesn't include anything on the field, selling tickets or that's revenue just from piping that game to a TV network.
or they're not even doing the piping, allowing a TV network to come on the field.