Guest post of the week by Brittany Booker

It is amazing to me just how huge the NFL has gotten. It is May, and I was watching the NFL network through Direct Star TV yesterday. This is a channel dedicated to the NFL all year long. I was watching the replay of a classic playoff game, and the thought occurred to me that meaningful NFL football games were over five months away. Yet here I was, watching a game and getting juiced about the upcoming season.

That is the first time I thought about just how big the NFL has become in recent years and just how much money that league must be making. I would love to see some statistics on the annual revenue brought in by the NFL. To have a television channel dedicated to the sport twelve months a year is amazing. And what is more amazing is that so many people watch this channel, myself included. It is one of the first channels I go to if I am home alone watching television or am board on a weekend afternoon. Football is by far the most popular American sport in my opinion.