05-07-2017, 08:44 PM
(05-07-2017, 05:14 PM)guyofthetiger Wrote: I'm not so sure Mike Brown wants to win for financial reasons. I read somewhere that Super Bowl teams can lose money. Don't ask me how. Maybe the players want too much money after a Super Bowl win.
(05-07-2017, 06:56 PM)McC Wrote: Maybe in some crazy scenario, SB teams might somehow lose some money initially but I can't imagine it wouldn't be recouped in merchandising alone.
This article explains it well:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2013/01/04/nfl-playoffs-are-not-a-road-to-riches-for-teams/#3dca01ce5124
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.