Today Forbes magazine released one of their fancy 'Top Ranking' lists. This time, rather than it be about the Top Most Expensive Boring Jobs, 500 Most Unattractive Rich Guys, or some other garbage, it was actually something we could relate to. The NFL, baby!

Forbes knows that ever since the season officially kicked off last week, our appetite for some smash-mouth, full-contact numbers has never been greater.

In this year's list, the eggheads over at Forbes take a look at which of the NFL's team are the most valuable. The list follows some general preconceived guidelines, but also has a few surprises. For instance, did you realize that despite sucking so badly, the Washington Redskins have consistently managed to be one of the league most profitable and valuable teams? Neither did we!

And because we hate how Forbes has all their lists in an annoying slideshow format, we've assembled all the important details in a handy list format below. You don't have to thank us, really you don't.

1.) Dallas Cowboys - $1.612 Billion

 Not really a surprise. They have the nickname 'America's Team', so it's probably a safe bet that they're 'the most capitalistic'. However if Jessica Simpson keeps running her mouth about her QB boyfriend 'skills', they'll writing checks they can't back up.

ESPN is now doing everything in its power to make fun of itself for talking about Brett Favre so much. The saga of Favre retiring from the Packers, then un-retiring, only to get traded to the New York Jets is such a fascinatingly over-publicized story that the ESPN guys are replacing the word 'five' with 'Favre' during the Sports Center broadcasts. This is how far we've come - from country boy American sports hero to New York tabloid-sucking sports news behemoth.

It's the epitome of ad nauseam. Of course, we realize that talking about Brett so much has made us not want to hear about him anymore, but is it true that people respect him less after all this new publicity?

A little update for all the Chicago fanboys out there - looks like Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has now become the front runner in the massive sale of the Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field, and a partial Comcast ownership.

Last time we discussed this deal, it looked like the two dastardly options would be either a bunch of New Yorkers who owned Broadway shows and Taxi cab companies, or a group of shopping center developers. In our usual glib fashion, we postulated this would lead to Wal-Marts being erected in the outfield.

Thank you to the reader who e-mailed me saying that such a plan would be detrimental to the field of play. I guess it didn't occur to me that it would be difficult to field fly balls out there with a fully-functioning Wal-Mart taking up so much space. Good point. But can't they get someone to clean up all that ivy on the back wall?

The Cubbies are up for sale and some interesting potential buyers are coming out of the woodwork.

Tribune Co., the current owners of the Cubs, (which also owns Wrigley Field, The Chicago Tribune, and the LA Times) is in some serious debt - owing billions after becoming a private company under investor Sam Zell's regime. The company decided the only option would be to sell off all its Chicago Cubs related holdings in a massive auction.

The Boston Celtics won the NBA Championship last night after destroying the Lakers in Game 6, but during an awkward on-court post-game interview, Kevin Garnett supposedly screwed over his main sponsor.

When asked how he felt after winning, Garnett responded by saying, "Man, I'm so hyped right now. Anything is possible. ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!".

While I was watching it, I realized this quote would be perceived as an incredible moment. Garnett, after being a great player on a losing team for years, came to Boston and got his first championship. Now he's sweating and crying on the court, getting hugs from former Celtic legends, and pouring emotion into the reporter's microphone.

But not everyone is regarding this as a genuine sports success moment. Some are calling it a disastrous marketing blooper.

Garnett is sponsored by adidas, which has been running an ad campaign featuring the slogan 'Impossible is Nothing' for months. Darren Rovell, CNBC's sports business reporter, believes that when Garnett 'incorrectly' exclaimed the adidas slogan, it was a huge missed opportunity for the brand.

Rovell attempts to explain how Adidas got hurt in the celebration:

And then I thought, wait, did he just say, "Anything is possible?" That's not adidas' slogan. Their slogan is "Impossible Is Nothing."

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