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Originally Posted by corporatejay

According to Wikipedia it's actually 3.1 billion, I'm pretty sure that's accurate because i've heard that number before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_on_television

That seems like a more reasonable number, but even with posturing being considered, tripling the owing estimate has to be for a reason.

Originally Posted by 4X4

I think he means that if they did own the stadiums (and therefore the debt) they would have assets (the stadiums) to put up as collateral for the debt.

But yeah, this article sounds like positioning from the league. They're priming. Reminiscent of Bettman's "we need cost certainty" and Goodenow's "we will never accept a salary cap".

Agreed, but I still dont get the hypothetical stadium ownership position.

If I owned every NFL stadium I'd be a billionaire. But I dont, so who cares?