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On Super Bowl Sunday, Remember Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Subsidize the NFL (truthout.org)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

NFL is incorporated, non-profit. That's right, non-profit.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

This was technically true but not in the way that people think.

The TL;DR is that each team is a for-profit entity that pays taxes based on their income while the NFL exists to handle some administrative duties but does not draw any income of its own. All of the money is taxed as teams' income.

And it hasn't been true since 2015 anyways.

[–] sangriaferret 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Almost. The Packers are a non-profit entity.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Community owned too, which is rad 🙂

[–] santa 5 points 4 weeks ago

Wtf?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, in the same way that FIFA and the IOC are: exploiting the fuck out of loopholes to corruptly enrich the leadership