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Old 06-20-2014, 05:04 PM   #229
Vulcan
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada View Post
Outside of maybe the NFL and some soccer teams professional sports franchises are typically terrible investments.
It isn't always the yearly profit of the franchise that makes sports teams good investments it's the increasing value of the franchise. The Flames cost $16M in 1980 and now are worth $420M. That's according to Forbes, an annualized change of 10%.
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