Why dosent the NFL have larger stadiums?
A big factor for the lack of huge NFL stadiums is the NFL TV blackout rule, which says if a team doesn’t sell out their home game 72 hours in advance, the game is blacked out on local TV. A bigger stadium makes a sellout harder to obtain. Another factor is college stadiums tend to be old and were built piecemeal, whereas NFL stadiums generally are much newer and built full-sized to start. There are a few factors at work here. First, college stadiums are generally built (or more accurately, expanded) through alumni donations, whereas NFL stadiums are built with team and public taxpayer money. Also, because there is no TV blackout rule in college football and because at many schools the football team subsidizes the rest of the athletic department, a really big stadium is better. Additionally, college football tickets are usually much cheaper (or at least somewhat cheaper) than NFL tickets on a per game basis, and season ticket holders only have to pay for 6-7 games, rather than 10 games
