Bears thought they got their stadium on lakefront

This quote from that article nails it:

"The national mood in recent years has swung sharply against public funding of stadiums. Now, with NFL franchise values skyrocketing, taxpayers are even more inclined to tell teams to pay for their own playgrounds."

This is a non-starter.  It is not happening.  The Bears need to stop dinking around and build their OWN stadium on their OWN land they already have.  There have been some tax concessions made for the Arlington Heights property and it sure seems reasonable (you do have to pay taxes... this is as good as it is going to get).  What I smell here is that the City of Chicago has not paid down the original 2002 $400-million dollar rebuild - and now they want to refinance that by rolling it into a new taxpayer funded stadium.  It's all about moving money around and getting the taxpayers to shoulder another tax burden.  Yeah, it stinks like typical Chicago politics.  But I don't think it's going to fly in this 2024 political environment.

David,  Does that net revenue include ticket sales, TV, concessions, parking, off-season leasing and any other revenue from the eventual development off the rest of the land at AH?  I am curious because I have never seen a detailed breakdown of the revenue side of things.

Here is a pretty decent article on the revenue stream for the NFL as a whole and the individual teams.

It looks to me that each team is pretty much guaranteed a gross revenue of approximately $400 million.

www.33rdsquare.com/do-nfl-teams-make-money/

Update:

davidl - Here is a link I came across.  Does this help you in your search for revenues by team?  This is gross revenue and not net.  Ignore the text in the URL.  The data is from 2022.

www.statista.com/statistics/193553/revenue-of-national-football-league-teams-in-2010/

I believe there are specific sources of revenue that the teams do not share with the rest of the league.  If you look at the following article it gets pretty specific about that is shared and what a team can keep all to itself. 

www.sports-king.com/nfl-owners-share-revenues-3390/




  

I personally wouldn't count on that as a definitive and authoritative source for data.  Outside of the individuals directly involved with the various discussions, negotiations, etc we do not know jack about what is really going on.  And, most likely, we never will know.