Forbes Top 10 Most Valuable Sports Franchises

[madinmaryland]

(in Billions)

1. Manchester United $1.8
2. Dallas Cowboys $1.6
3. Washington Redskins $1.5
4. New England Patriots $1.32
5. New York Yankees $1.3
6. Real Madrid $1.29
7. Arsenal $1.2
8. New York Giants $1.18
9. New York Jets $1.17
10. Houston Texans $1.17

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The Houston Texans??? :wtf:

[Forkboy]

1. WTF is right on the Texans.

That one surprised the fuck outta me. :)

No offense, Houston....

[El Supremo]

2. Well, Houston is the 4th largest city and 6th largest metro district.

WTF is the Native American Insults doing at #3?

[madinmaryland]

3. Danny Boy Snyder.

[Captain Hilts]

15. Washington has an historic franchise with a huge fanbase and great location.

[rockymountaindem]

4. The fact that the Texans are on there shows what a dumb metric that is

Doesn't seem indicative of much.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. I'd Like To Know What Assumptions Were Used

I have a hard time believing that any U.S. teams are worth more than Yankees, NY Giants, Jets, Dodgers or Bears or Cubs.

The Texans are worth more than the NY Giants? I'd strongly question the factors that went into the metric, which as you said, is highly questionable.
GAC

[hughee99]

10. Aren't the NY Giants 8th and the Texans 10th?

:spank: :)

[madinmaryland]

11. The jets and giants share a stadium.

[SteelPenguin]

13. This explains it a bit

http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/13/nfl-cowboys-yankees-biz-media-cx_tvr_0113values.html

Sounds like how competitive the team is comes into play, but it's not as important as things such as overal merchandising (which the NFL shares so even the Texans benefit) as well as how new a stadium is, whether the team owns it, how much revenue it produces, etc. Because the NFL shares merchandising and television revenue even the least valuable team is worth over 800 million, after that the Texans have a brand new stadium, the biggest naming rights deal, as well as the revenue the stadium generates.

[KamaAina]

6. How many brazillion is that?

:P

[madinmaryland]

7. A ROIDrillion?

:P

[inthebrain]

8. You mean BARROIDillion

[madinmaryland]

9. That's what an Aroidrillion plus an Mroidrillion is ??

[Tektonik]

12. Any franchise that owns their own stadium is automatically overinflated in their value

[cboy4]

14. Madinmaryland's confidence is also overinflated.

I'm going to leave it there before I become sick.