According to USA Today the NFL is America's richest and most powerful sports league.
USA Today Quote: "The NFL takes in more than $6 billion in annual revenue. The average value of NFL teams skyrocketed from $288 million in 1998 to $898 million in 2006, says Mike Ozanian, senior editor at Forbes, which annually publishes its valuations of pro teams. That's more than twice as much as the average $431 million value for MLB franchises last year."  
ESPN pays $1.1 billion to cover 17 Monday Night Football games.  Fox sports pays an average price of $712 million per year to cover only the NFC and two Super Bowls (Super Bowls will be covered by fox twice over the next 6 years) Fox and TBS combined to pay $400 million per year to cover MLB regular season and playoff games.  
In terms of money, the NFL is clearly head and shoulders above any other professional sports league and NFL TV viewership obviously speaks for itself.

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