[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
Football is driven by winning. Period. The only that matters to EVERY team in the NFL is winning the Superbowl and they’ll do whatever it takes to get there.[/quote]
Actually… no.
Football is a business and about making money. Winning can help the teams make money. But clearly it is sometimes in a team’s best interest to go cheap on coaching if they know they don’t really have a shot at the superbowl that year.
“Player expense might not equate to wins, of course. But there’s something more basic happening. In the NFL structure, a cheap team that loses might have more profits than an expensive team that wins. Victory is nice, to be sure, but losing cheap can be remunerative. As all NFL teams save the Packers are privately held, and of those all save the Raiders are family businesses, money that is not spent on players goes into the pockets of the owner and his relatives.
Each NFL team gets exactly the same national TV payment whether it’s winning big on “Monday Night Football” or losing badly and never aired nationally. Ticket sales can vary and generally are where the profit resides. But the revenue swing between packing the house and having a poor gate just isn’t that great.”
So yeah, NFL Football is about making money, first and foremost. High school football is much more about winning, and NCAA is sort of a hybrid.
