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The NFL Wining Cycle

Adrian Nelson - The Sports Quotient

There are a few basic concepts that everyone who takes Econ 101 generally walks away with, and these concepts can be applied nearly everywhere — even sports! One is the business cycle. In the most basic sense the business cycle is characterized by the old adage of “what goes up must come down.”

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The economy goes through periods of growth and decline, and NFL teams are really no different. The NFL has long been called a league of parity. Success is easier to replicate than in a sport like baseball and teams go from worst to first and first to worst seemingly every year.