long time guy wrote:
NBA players command 1. greater salaries and 2. far exceed Football players in terms of endorsements. How would you counter that?
#1 is relative because there are 53 men an on NFL roster, and only twelve on an NBA roster.
#2, NBA players might have big deals with Nike or Adidas, but I think you severely underestimate the local commercials that NFL players do. For example, Robbie Gould still appears on my TV doing commercials for Eagle Ridge in Galena.
But regardless, need some citations on both of these.
Not sure the Eagle Ridge endorsement is the same as signing a $200 million deal with Adidas but maybe it is