NFL Jersey sales skyrocket as Manziel leads the way.

Johnny Football, a football player who has taken the sports world by a storm. Love him or Hate him, Johnny Manziel has taken over the NFL jersey sales surpassing league superstars like Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Adrian Peterson, LeSean McCoy, and Calvin Johnson aka Megatron. This article I read through ESPN showed that within the fist 3 months of Jonny Football's jersey being released it grossed about $46 million. Thats the most ever by a rookie in NFL history. 

If you think thats crazy?, at this point Manziel did not even play one down in the NFL yet. He was just drafted 2 1/2 months before this! This article gave me a lot of inforamtion on how the NFL divides up their jersey sales between the team, the leauge, and the specific player. Within that $46 million Johnny Manziel got around $5.2 million, the Cleveland Browns got $20.3 million and the NFL got $20.5 million. 

Overall this article gave me a great insite on how the league divides up the money on sales with merchandise and other things. But I thoroughlly enjoyed reading about Johnny Football! 

Should KD leave Nike for Under Armour?

According to Forbes Magazine Nike will match the huge 10 year, $265-$285 million offer for the sponsorship rights to Kevin Durant. They matched this offer that was made by Under Armour earlier this month. KD has not made his decison yet, but when he does im sure it will be a big one.

Durant has been with Nike for the past seven years, during that time KD has made over $60 million. That is 4th most by any Nike sponsored athlete. he is behind Christano Ronaldo (3rd) , Kobe Bryant (2nd), Lebron James (1st).  

After reading the article and taking in te all the facts, it seeems that Nike will  most likely keep the MVP on their side of things. But Under Armour did have some very convincing things in their offer. I ultimately believe that KD will stay with Nike because of the "Hype" that Nike brings to sports and its players and products.