We’ll be using some statistics to back up our list today. However, football isn’t played and won on paper; if it were, every number one draft pick would become the best player, and the game would be much more tedious and predictable. Thankfully, the unpredictable and exciting nature of American Football is one reason it maintains popularity across America and beyond.
Due to its immense global popularity, sponsoring players and franchises are highly lucrative. You only need to look at how much a 30-second Superbowl half-time advertisement costs to see how much money the sport generates. Over two dozen NFL teams now have some sort of gambling or casino sponsor, another industry generating astonishing profit.