Is The Nfl Registered The Same As Professional Wrestling

TIL The NFL is recognized every bit an "entertainment" business organisation rather than a sport, legally, like the WWE

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"That'due south Peyton Manning's music! My god, he's joining the Broncos! It's a muddy double cantankerous!!!"

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Eli Manning comes floating downwardly on metal cables from the rafters of the Lucas Oil Stadium in an olde tyme footballer outfit, just his cablevision snaps, his face hits the goal post and he dies.

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It'southward like they say in business schoolhouse: "Don't effort to compare running a business to operating a sport's team because a sporting franchise IS a business."

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What about the other major leagues like the MLB, NBA or NHL? Aren't they organized much in the same way?

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I recollect the games tin be influenced and such, but there'southward no fashion in hell information technology's totally stock-still. It's not like David Tyree catching a pass off his helmet on 4th downward in the last drive in the Super Bowl could possibly take been influenced. Penalties though? Sure. Referees pretty much can telephone call sure sentence penalties (Holding, Pass Interference, etc.) to swing games if the NFL determines it'south in their best involvement to do so, and I wouldn't be surprised if that happened.

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detroit vs browns Superbowl ... yous watching

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This is to evade the sports tax, the more yous knowww

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For business purposes, entertainment and sports are THE SAME THING.

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Every bit much equally I'd like to believe information technology, it's hard to believe whatsoever sport/athletic event where millions/billions of dollars are on the line, isn't in some manner fixed.

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Anyone know any more than info about this "wildcat" story? I'd love to hear more nigh this. The but teams I could see running this type of affair would be Steve Immature's 49ers, or maybe a Doug Flutie team.

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Sports bettors are the reason the NFL takes the injury written report then seriously. Teams defenseless lying near it typically receive a half-dozen figure fine.

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I call up it was the "no huddle" law-breaking.

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Really, the WWE is considered an amusement company. This way they don't accept to conform to athletic commissions strict rules on drug testing and work rate.

Also, they did it for taxation breaks.

Edit: Reading fault. Carry on.

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Thanks for the wrestling lingo. Appreciated!

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YIL the NFL is revenue enhancement exempt non profit status (watching OTL) (yesterday I learned = yil)

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The NFL is, but the teams certain are not. The authorities nonetheless gets their pound of flesh, they just don't go it twice or thrice when coin shifts between teams.

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The NFL, as the in the authoritative role is classified as a Non-Profit because it does not exist to brand a profit, it only exists to facilitate league operations. The profit making portion of the league is the teams itself, therefore, I have no outcome with this tax ruling.