{"id":675535,"date":"2026-01-14T02:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/675535\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T02:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:57:12","slug":"new-york-giants-among-the-worlds-top-20-most-profitable-sports-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/675535\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Giants among the world&#8217;s top 20 most profitable sports teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 13, 2026, 7:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" data-autotag=\"9402befb-12da-4b26-905a-81ab1fea0850\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">New York Giants<\/a> are often said to be one of the worst-run franchises in all of team sports by experts. That hasn&#8217;t precluded them from prospering financially, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In Forbes&#8217; recent list of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brettknight\/2026\/01\/09\/the-worlds-most-profitable-sports-teams-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">World&#8217;s Most Profitable Sports Teams of 2026<\/a>, the Giants, who have an estimated value of $10.1 billion, ranked 14th with an operating income of $181 million. They are wedged in between the New York Rangers ($182 million) and the New York Jets ($180 million).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Dallas Cowboys lapped the field with an astonishing $629 million in operating income, over $200 million more than the second-ranked Golden State Warriors ($409 million).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Other NFL teams making the list: The Los Angeles Rams at No. 3 ($244 million), the New England Patriots (No. 6, $222 million), the Las Vegas Raiders (No. 16, $179 million), and the Houston Texans (No. 20, $156 million).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The NFL led the way among all major sports leagues with an average of $127 million in operating income. The NBA was second ($113 million), the NHL ($74 million), and Soccer ($41 million).<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">MLB brought up the rear with an average operating income of just $2 million per team. The average has been brought down by the eleven teams that lost money last season, namely the New York Mets, who reported losses of over $268 million in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768359432_762_86373428007-square-1.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 13, 2026, 7:00 p.m. ET The New York Giants are often said to be one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2067],"tags":[95878,7,519,1917,56,2321,2469,6,96069,96070,95882,95896,95891,95888,95895,95897,96177,95883,98334,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-675535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-giants","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sstssportsnflgiants","17":"tag-sstsngiants","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagnational-sports","20":"tag-tagnew-york-giants","21":"tag-tagnfl","22":"tag-tagnfl-hub","23":"tag-tagoverall-negative","24":"tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-tagteam-sports","27":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115891211357184643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}