Ben Fischer

Manhattan

NFL Reporter and Staff Writer at Sports Business Journal

I cover the NFL and other important sports business news for @SBJ. Iced coffee enthusiast. Opinions are my own.

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Articles

SBJ Football: Stadium politics run hot in the heartland

1 day ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Fischer

The Browns' vision for a new stadium development in Brook Park, outside Cleveland, which depends on the Ohio Senate and House agreeing to the same funding source for $600 million.
UFL audience down in Year 2 -- both in-person, on TV

1 day ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Fischer |Austin Karp

Attendance was down 5% and TV viewership declined by 20% in the UFL’s second regular season after the USFL-XFL merger, a tough result for a property that hoped to demonstrate momentum after a respectable 2024. In a season where the local “butts in seats” business was a stated imperative, attendance declined in seven of the league’s eight cities, including St. Louis, the league’s best market. The Battlehawks averaged 29,537 fans per game, down 14% compared to last year.
Browns, Bears, Chiefs see significant movement on stadium futures

1 day ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Fischer

It’s late spring, which means crunch time for state legislatures and governors deciding where taxpayer money is going. Ohio, Illinois and Missouri are all taking meaningful steps -- either proactively or by omission -- in determining the stadium futures of the Browns, Bears and Chiefs this week. In Missouri, the Chiefs got a huge win in the wee hours this morning. The Missouri Senate OK’d Gov.
Invesco QQQ to sponsor college football series in Atlanta

3 days ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Fischer

AMB Sports and Entertainment will today announce a major sponsorship deal with Atlanta-based Invesco to entitle a newly created college football series at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The Invesco QQQ Atlanta Gridiron Classic will debut on Nov. 28, Black Friday, when Georgia plays Georgia Tech in that rivalry’s first neutral-site game.
Howell made $3.6M in first full year as NFLPA Executive Director

1 week ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Fischer

The NFLPA paid Exec Dir Lloyd Howell $3.6M in the fiscal year ending in February, a year in which strong investment returns pushed the union’s net assets above $1B for the first time, according to a new disclosure form filed with the U.S. Labor Department. This is the first full year in which Howell’s compensation has been disclosed since he began in July 2023.
Denver Broncos see surge in single-game ticket sales

1 week ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Fischer

The Broncos say single-game ticket sales are up 41% over 2024 since the schedules were released May 15, which executives believe is a reflection of a revamped ticket sales strategy and the team’s first playoff appearance in nine years. Denver sold 7,000 tickets in the first 24 hours after the schedule release. Under SVP/Strategy & Business Insights Jesse Nading, the Broncos this year added live monitoring and dynamic pricing.
What is the Indianapolis Colts' succession plan?

2 weeks ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Fischer

Chiefs owner Clark Hunt (r) said this week the NFL isn't looking to add private equity funds to the league's team investment program, one day after Roger Goodell said it was.
Without Jim Irsay, is Dan Snyder still around?

2 weeks ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Fischer

By October 2022, the bad news was really piling up for Commanders owner Dan Snyder, but it still seemed more likely than not that he would keep his franchise. There were serious questions around his fellow owners’ legal ability and political will to force a sale, and Snyder had adopted a fighting posture. When broadcasting legend Al Michaels publicly said the league wanted him gone on “Thursday Night Football,” Michaels talked about a voluntary sale, not a vote to ban him.
Clark Hunt: NFL doesn’t need more private equity funds

2 weeks ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Fischer

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL Finance Committee Chairman Clark Hunt appeared to say two different things about the prospect of adding more private equity funds to the NFL’s team investment program this week. Let’s parse it out. On Tuesday, Goodell told CNBC’s CEO Council the league is close to expanding the program. “We are likely to expand that by another private equity firm in the very near future,” Goodell said.
Snyder's change of heart came after more owners approached him, sources say

2 weeks ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Ben Fischer

Jim Irsay was the only one who said his piece in public, but other NFL owners have confronted Dan Snyder privately in recent weeks -- and more have told Commissioner Roger Goodell that something must give, sources tell me. Wednesday’s shock announcement from the Snyders that they’d entertain offers for the team, those same sources said, came in light of that growing consensus that the end must come, one way or another.