ESPN the Magazine ranks the best & worst franchises in america. Redskins ranked 121 out of 122.

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Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

Do you really think the New England Patriots fans "hate on us" because the Redskins' franchise has a higher dollar value than does the Pats' franchise?

Would you really trade three Super Bowl championships in a decade for a lower franchise value on the Redskins? I doubt any Patriots' fans or Steelers' fans or Packers' fans would make that trade.

Seriously. I don't think many people are jealous of our franchises value. The only people that might be jealous are small market teams looking at how much the Skins can spend on signing bonus's and coaches, but when they look at our record and how much fans have to pay to attend games any sense of jealously probably goes away.

The only time I've enjoyed the net value thing is when my friends thought I was crazy for saying that the Redskins were among the 5 most valuable sport franchises world wide, and way even be in the top 2, to which they replied that there was NO WAY the Skins were more valuable then teams like Real, Barca, Chelsea, Bayren, Arsenel. As well as teams like the Yankees, Lakers, Red Sox, Patriots, etc.

It was pretty shocking to considering that teams like Real Madrid had paid 100 million Euros just to acquire the rights to a player. Never mind paying them to play, just the right to sign them to a contract.

A hollow victory if there ever was one.