Forbes Ranks Lions As World's 36th Most Valuable Sports Team

by Sean Yuille on Jul 22, 2010 2:51 PM EDT in Detroit Lions News

Forbes' list of the world's most valuable sports teams shows you the power of the NFL, as the top 50 is littered with American football franchises (I specify American football because quite a few soccer teams are on there as well). Even the Lions, which haven't had any success in the last decade and are in a struggling economic market, came in as the 36th most valuable team in the entire world.

Forbes values the Lions at $867 million and lists their revenue as being $206 million (imagine how much they would be worth if they had even a little success on the football field). Based on those numbers, the Lions are the 28th most valuable franchise in the NFL (ahead of the Jaguars, Falcons, Vikings and Raiders). Like I said, this list shows you just how big the NFL is. $867 million seems like a lot of money, but that's only good enough for 28th in the entire NFL.

The Lions were the only Detroit team on the list, which ranked the top 50 most valuable teams (every NFL teams was on there, by the way).

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I think that WCF realizes who has made this franchise valuable

and has decided to pull out the pocketbook and give some back to us fans

by myPride on Jul 22, 2010 3:36 PM EDT reply actions

just wait a minnut

we are actually investing in our team…watch, next we’ll b resigning the talent instead of letting it go out into the league.

by myPride on Jul 22, 2010 3:38 PM EDT reply actions

WTF?

I am a Lions fan BUT you have to be kidding me there 36th and the Wings were not on that list.

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by The Profiler on Jul 22, 2010 4:19 PM EDT reply actions

the nfl makes a lot of money

by redwingxviii on Jul 22, 2010 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions

I thought something like that at first but...

Think how many seats, standing seats, sky box seats and so fit in a football field. Now think of how many a Hockey rink has. Also think of Jersey sales. Yes the Wings have X amount of stars. But at any given point their are only 6 players on the field. For the Lions their are 11. More people get face time hence more fans like the ones for Follet who was only on special teams !! The NFL is also has also became more of a broad sport. Look how many nationalities are in the NFL compared to the NHL. This means fans from other countries ! NFL is much more world wide then the NHL simply due to who plays for them. Look what Yao Ming did for the NBA.

by Joey-P on Jul 22, 2010 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions

A word of advice:

A good post should be like a female’s skirt: long enough to cover the subject matter, but short enough to keep things interesting.

I’m just saying.

by motown313 on Jul 22, 2010 11:28 PM EDT up reply actions

LOL

Thats funny. I may use that one Motown

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Pic - me in one of my LIONS shirts

by NYCLionsfan on Jul 23, 2010 10:27 AM EDT up reply actions

This is based on $$$

NHL can’t compare to any NFL teams.

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by Sean Yuille on Jul 22, 2010 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions

mos def...

NFL playoffs are on primetime, weekend, basic cable. NHL playoffs are on versus until 1 in the morning. That’s all you need to know to understand the NFL > NHL when it comes to revenue.

by lions_sucker on Jul 22, 2010 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions

So we are only ahead of 4 teams in the NFL?

That’s gotta embarrass WCF a bit.

I just hope it is embarrassing enough to keep making good moves with the team.

by Enor on Jul 22, 2010 5:01 PM EDT reply actions

Yep, that number 28 seems...

… to be a good number for our " power " ranking this season also. Now, if Ford would pay a dividend on the 221 shares I own, be me happy !

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by Keevatron on Jul 22, 2010 5:33 PM EDT reply actions

That shocks me too

Given this entire decade we sucked and the regional economy in Detroit. As yuille mentioned imagine if we had a 1990’s like decade in terms of W-L??? This franchise would be worth a hell of a lot more.

I spray paint my dog Honolulu Blue and Silver

Pic - me in one of my LIONS shirts

by NYCLionsfan on Jul 22, 2010 5:59 PM EDT reply actions