Professor Elam

The value of NFL franchises has boomed the last fifteen years. However not all the games are selling out which means that television blackouts will be enforced in more markets. Which means that people will not be able to watch the games, at least for free. Is that a good strategy?

Tennis enjoyed a resurgence in the 1970s. It was kicked off by the Battle of the Sexes between Billie Jean King and Bobby riggs.  Tennis however proved a difficult game to master, then as now.  The ball has to be returned over the net and into the court.  But courts are available and cheap, an attraction in a down economy. 

I suspect the big bets on expensive stadiums will not pay off. The fanfare for the billion dollar Cowboys stadium is good now, but is was for the Astrodome when it opened. Other than football games it is simply difficult to find enough opportunities to attract 50,000 people to an event. After all there are less than 30 nome games in any NFL stadium. That leaves 335 days a year….And the slower economy makes it more difficult to get folks to buy high dollar tickets. Without an NFL team  what you have is, the Alamodome.