Bears thought they got their stadium on lakefront

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'm normally the one arguing w/Davidl, but revenue is income/expenses before taxes. Just b/c your revenue is 400million doesn't mean you have 400million to spend, they paid a large sum of taxes on that.

www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/122214/what-difference-between-revenue-and-income.asp#:~:text=However%2C%20revenue%20refers%20to%20money%20earned%20from%20a,are%20accounted%20for%2C%20including%20taxes%20and%20other%20costs.

"There are several important financial metrics that companies report each quarter, including revenue and income. These two figures are often used synonymously because they refer to money a company earns. However, revenue refers to money earned from a variety of sources, while income is any money left over after all expenses are accounted for, including taxes and other costs."


Even if they made 400m a year after taxes, they don't, their ability to finance 3-4bil when the owners only source of income is the team; this isn't Minny or NE etc, is asking a ton. Should the city/state pay 40-50% no, it's proven no city will ever see the benefit of it, at least not on a simple look at the mortgage. But asking for them to help w/costs of upgrading roads, sewers, powergrid etc and also give tax breaks/benefits to the owners isn't a crazy ask; and part of that 3bil is in those costs.