The NFL might have finally launched a YouTube channel this year but the billion-dollar football empire is already making plenty of cash from the internet. The sale of merchandise, streaming of games through DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket, advertising and many other internet-related items contribute to their massive revenue numbers each year.
It’s impossible to accurately predict what league officials would have projected the internet would hold for the game 20 years ago, but judging from this interesting 1995 Internet Fact Sheet, it doesn’t appear anyone knew what was coming:
approaching 20th anniversary of NFL's 1st website launch. fact sheet handed out at Draft #tbt pic.twitter.com/2EmxnwUZ4D
— Brian McCarthy (@NFLprguy) March 26, 2015
