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The road to $25 billion01 / 28 / 13Without inside access to the NFL’s books, it’s tough to know exactly how to create a pie chart for the league’s $9.5 billion of revenue in 2012. We do know from the 2011 season that of the year’s nearly $9.4 billion in revenue, $5.5 billion (58.5 percent) came from national... |
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Super Bowl: It takes a village
Starting with next week’s affair in New Orleans, the NFL will require all Super Bowl host cities to offer a themed, downtown-like village as a destination that can be branded Super Bowl Boulevard. After the success of last year’s Super Bowl in Indianapolis, an event that won rave revi ...
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Next up for the NFL
Last year entering the Super Bowl, the NFL was confronting labor strife and media contracts that needed renewing. Both are now in the rearview mirror. This year the issues are a bit less weighty, but the league, while hitting on most cylinders, still has its share of challenges. Here is a brief loo ...
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Rematch inspires high licensing expectations
Everyone looks for comparables when making a business evaluation, but the last time there was a rematch in the Super Bowl was 1993-94, when the Buffalo Bills played the Dallas Cowboys at the end of the Bills’ remarkable zero-for-four Super Bo ...
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Miles: Indy is ready
Mark Miles for 15 years was the first CEO of the modern ATP, leaving in 2006 to head up the nonprofit Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, a regional coalition of CEOs of Central Indiana employers and leaders of universities. In 2008, he became chairman of the Indianapolis Super Bowl Host Committ ...
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For Ann Mara, a rare turn in the spotlight
Ann Mara stepped out of the shadows and into the realm of Internet sensation earlier this month, good-naturedly scolding Fox personality Terry Bradshaw on air in the locker room after her New York Giants’ NFC championship win for never picking her team. Mara and Joan Tisch actually co-own t ...
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Chef is part of Giants culture
Three days after the New York Giants won their last Super Bowl matchup against the New England Patriots, quarterback Eli Manning and offensive lineman Shaun O’Hara found themselves singing “New York, New York” with Yogi Berra at a tiny Italian restaurant in East Harlem called Rao&r ...
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For Engine Shop, Super Bowl parties provide a coming-out party
The Super Bowl, an annual launch point for new campaigns and new commercials, will this week mark the launch of a new experiential marketing and consulting agency — Engine Shop. Formerly called the Miami Marketing Group, an event agency known for Super Bowl parties and other sports/celebrit ...
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ESPN takes it indoors
If ESPN’s Seth Markman learned one thing from last year’s surprisingly frigid Super Bowl week in Texas — when an ice storm paralyzed Arlington and weeklong temperatures were stuck below freezing — it’s that he doesn’t want to see his host’s breath on camera ...
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Inside tips on Indy eats
The world is descending on Indianapolis this week for Super Bowl XLVI, and the world, as usual, is hungry. We asked some locals from the sports industry where they like to grab a bite, and they were kind enough to point us to their favorites. Be warned, though: If you don’t already have reserv ...
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'Fans First' in Indianapolis
Welcome to the “Fans First” Super Bowl, the NFL’s makeup for troubles that plagued last year’s event in North Texas. The league’s official slogan for the big game this year underscores the seating fiasco and other p ...
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