- 5: # of television networks airing games (ESPN, NFL Network, CBS, FOX, NBC).
- 4: # of major corporations with rights to the league (Disney, Viacom, News Corp. and General Electric).
- 1.1: billions of dollars paid by Disney to air Monday Night Football on ESPN.
- 9: of the top ten highest rated cable broadcasts of all time are Monday Night Football games.
- 17.8: the rating for the Dallas Cowboys/New York Giants game on December 3, the highest rated regular season NFL game of the decade.
- 3.7: billions of dollars in NFL rights fees; the number is “‘more than the total national TV money now being spent annually’ on the NBA, MLB, NASCAR, PGA Tour, NCAA tournament basketball and the Athens Olympics combined”.
- 2.5: millions of dollars to air a 30-second ad during the Superbowl.
- 90.7: millions of viewers for Superbowl XL, the largest number of viewers for Superbowl since 1996.
- 103,000: people attended an NFL game between the San Francisco 49ers and Arizona Cardinals in Mexico City.
- 3: NFL teams worth more than 1 billion dollars, according to Forbes magazine in 2005 (Washington, Cowboys, Patriots).
WSJ: Rupert Murdoch spoke to White House about NFL streaming deals
Fox Corporation's campaign against the NFL's streaming deals reportedly reached the highest levels of the company and the government.
