How Does Football Affect The Economy

The sports industry altogether provides quite the attractive earnings, coming in roughly around $14.3 billion in a year without the immense quantity of economic activity caused by the Super Bowl Sunday, in addition to the mass amount of jobs it creates as well. A large portion of these earnings come from one sport in particular- professional football. However, in order to keep up with our Nation’s rapid population growth, what more can be done to add-on and cultivate the mass amount of earnings and jobs that professional football already provides? Despite whether the economy is striving or struggling, society still loves sports. This is clearly shown by the large economic impact of the Super Bowl. In combination of ticket sales, the Super Bowl of 2015 is anticipated to earn roughly over 500 million dollars. This amount is also an understatement of just how valuable Super Bowl earnings truly are, partially due to the fact that a large percentage of football fans are usually considered to be tourists, coming from out of town or a different state. Money spent by these individuals is capital purely entering a new economic system, and thus is considered to be the most-desired type of revenue. One would compare this revenue to receiving a gift versus going out and buying the same item yourself. …show more content…
Next to follow would be in 1983 and 1986, with the NFL’s first ever game played in Europe at Wembley Stadium and the first ever American Bowl, a series of international preseason games played annually until 2005, respectively. From 1898 to 2005 thirteen preseason games were played in Japan, one being the 2002 Redskins and 49ers matchup that was played at the Osaka Dome and the remaining 12 games at the Tokyo Dome. For the next years to come games more and more games were played around the world in places such as Mexico City, Dublin, and