Professional Sports Teams and Venues in Dallas/Forth Worth

The DFW Metroplex Covers All the Pro Sports Bases

Professional sports teams in the United States, teams in the NBA, NHL, MLB, and NFL, are estimated to have a combined worth of more than $12 billion - and that figure is growing almost daily. This revenue comes from a combination of sources, among them:

• Ticket sales (including luxury suites)
  


• Fees for broadcasting and televising games
  


• Concession sales
  


• Corporate naming rights
  


• Parking fees
  


Professional Sports Teams and Venues in Dallas/Forth Worth
Neigborhood: Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX

• Renting the stadium out to other activities (assuming a team at least partially owns the stadium).

Many local governments share the cost of sports stadiums with hopes of obtaining the "spillover benefits" of new job creation, increased tourism and increased tax revenues from sales generated by sports fans. These benefits, however, according to a report by UrbanFutures.org (sponsored by the Reason Foundation) have not lived up to all their expectations. This report states that:

"Three decades of research, however, has failed to find identifiable benefits for cities, their downtowns, or their neighborhoods."

There are, however, social benefits. A survey taken in relation to the above mentioned report found that
residents of a city with a professional sports team "enjoy substantial social spillover benefits" from the presence of the team(s). These benefits are in the areas of intangibles such as community pride, national recognition, and the importance of sports as an attraction to living in the city.

The Dallas/Forth Worth Metroplex is home to four professional sports teams, one for every major American team sport and, there is no doubt about it, DFW fans love and support their teams through good seasons and bad.

The Dallas Cowboys