“They were close to about $5 billion ... about the value of the average NFL franchise at the time”

Understood: The Big Bet · E1: Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

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Projected annual revenue impact of legal sports betting for the NFL

$5 billion per year (original projection $2.3 billion)

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