Which goes to show that the overall fortune, and potential reputation, of a franchise goes beyond primetime appearances in one individual season.
I think the nfl does an awesome job in promoting their teams both good and bad ones. Unlike in some sports where if you don't have a dbag star, you won't get any national run.
Agreed. That's why at the end of the day, as long as a free agent feels he has even a reasonable chance to win, he's going to take the money. The exposure will be there.
And so your contention is that, to a 25-year old kid, a Forbes list is more enticing than a Monday Night Football schedule? To me, what it shows is that being profitable and getting exposure are not mutually exclusive and that a financially successful team can absolutely live in total obscruity. "Welcome to Sunday Night Football, where tonight we have the league's 9th most profitable team facing....." Ring me when that happens.
To me, common sense says that a team isn't in obscurity if they're the 9th-most profitable sports franchise in the entire world. Again, not the league - all of global sports. Look at the other teams around the Texans and near the top of that list. Cowboys (2), Redskins (4), Patriots (6), Giants (8), Jets (10), Eagles (11). These are pretty much the ones that you go on and on about as being the "storied" franchises of the league. I guess it's just a coincidence that ALL the other top profitable franchises coincide almost exactly with our accepted view, and the Texans are just some incredible worst-to-near-first exception? Profits don't just come out of thin air. They come from sponsorships and sales, which come from having a product that advertisers and fans want to buy into. On-field play is part of it, of course, but it's also about location, exposure, and other related factors. Advertisers aren't dumb. Look at all the other teams near the Texans' rank. They put money into situations that they think will benefit them. There's a distinct reason the Texans are able to rake in those profits, and teams like the Jaguars and Lions aren't. Again, it's not that a 25-year-old free agent is going to reference a Forbes list. That's oversimplifying it. My case is that many of the same factors that go into making a team profitable are related to things such as market and exposure that also are important to players. The idea that the 9th-most profitable franchise in the world is looked at by outside observers as "NFL Siberia" or "in obscurity" is just ridiculous. You're really, really reaching when you say things like that.
Here's an article on Arian Foster. It's too long to post. http://aol.sportingnews.com/nfl/sto...an-foster-the-most-interesting-man-in-the-nfl
This made sense when there was only MNF, but now that SNF exists and they change out the game if it looks like it will be a dud I feel that an overlooked team can play their way into some primetime appearances late in the season. Essentially if the Texans can play well from the start so that they are playing for something or at least other playoff-contending teams in Nov/Dec they'll get some national airtime.
This is from @incarceratedbob guy that breaks all rumors/trades hours (sometimes days) before every major sports televisions. **NFL HOT RUMOR**Sources: Once Free Agency begins the Texans are prepared to make a huge offer to CB Nnamdi Asomugha #1 Priority
It would be great if we signed Asawannaganna, but honestly, if these rumors are true, I'm just glad the Texans are making a FA CB a priority. Sure, it seems really obvious, but as we all know, that's sometimes not enough for the Texans to take action... If we end up signing the guy, great. But if we don't, I'm not going to pitch a hissy fit if we sign a guy like Joseph instead. I really do think all we need is a couple of guys who can actually play CB at a slightly better than average level, and that will make the defense - along with the whole team - much better than it was last year.
