Economic Impact of NFL Playoffs: Football Juggernaut Continues

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00:00 Sports professor Rick Harl, your daily numbers game, the last regular season

00:04 game, NFL right behind me, hard rock, Buffalo Bills, what's at stake?

00:11 Obviously everybody on the AFC knows that they're in, don't know where they're

00:16 playing. It's a beautiful thing about the playoffs, the 14 teams could go anywhere

00:21 at the last minute, but here are the issues. The economic impact of the

00:26 playoffs and the games that start next week, 30 to 40 million dollars for the

00:32 first weekend and ratcheting up from there, Super Bowl obviously nearly 300 or

00:38 400 million dollars in Vegas for the first time. For teams like the Dolphins,

00:42 the legacy of not having a winning game at home for a playoff win for a long

00:49 time nags at the franchise and there are other franchises like the Texans that

00:55 are just enjoying the year.

00:57 Whatever it is, the NFL juggernaut continues.