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The report pointed to the possibility of increasing the size of losses in the event of cancellation of the American Football League (NFL) and college leagues.
The size of trade losses includes the salaries that players will pay players for stadiums, but may be a conservative estimate because it does not include outdoor recreational sports, betting, or individual sports such as golf, tennis, and NASCAR are sports popular motorcycles in the United States.
Patrick Rich, director of the Sports Business Program at the University of Washington in St. Louis, estimated the impact of the complete shutdown of the “ESPN” network in the major professional leagues at a loss of $ 5.5 billion, college tournaments at $ 3.9 billion and sports competitions for young people. With 2.4 billion dollars.
These numbers signify the completion of the baseball and soccer league midseason with the presence of spectators in exchange for the possible cancellation of the regular season in basketball and hockey tournaments and the establishment of the playoff finals. no fans, resumption and sports competitions for the youth category in July.
None of this is guaranteed, given instructions to stay home in most of the country as a result of the deadly virus that has killed some 65,000 people in the United States, from more than a million reported and confirmed cases.
The figures include the $ 3.25 billion that viewers could have spent on professional tournaments, plus $ 371 million in revenue for stadium workers and $ 2.2 billion in television rights in the United States.
And if the NFL is canceled, that will cost more than $ 11.5 billion in television revenue, while 65 football programs receive approximately $ 4 billion in television money, approximately half of the income that finances all the budgets of sports administration.
The report indicated that there are three million jobs nationwide that depend on the sport, from guides and guards to explorers and coaches.
Rich said that if he were forced to play a baseball championship without a midseason audience, they would spend more than $ 2 billion fans.
