49ers Beat Raiders in Cash Money Worth

The 49ers are one of the few teams getting richer.

Bay Area sports dorks who actually care about finance have a little more reason to be proud of the home teams.

Forbes magazine has released it's annual ranking of NFL franchise values for 2010, and there are good cash-money omens for both Bay Area NFL franchises.

The Oakland Raiders find that they are no longer the least valuable franchise in the NFL. The San Francisco 49ers, meanwhile, are one of only five NFL teams to have increased in value over the last year.

On last year's list, the Raiders were in dead last place. This year they have moved up one notch to next-to-last place, with an estimated value of $758 million.

The Raiders are still losing money like Michael Jordan's kid on a craps bender, and they're worth even less money than they were last year. But the Jacksonville Jaguars have taken over last place, on account of their stadium rent being jacked up this season.

The 49ers, ranked No. 22 on the list with a value of $925 million, are one of only five teams whose value has increased since 2009.

This is the first year in the history of Forbes' list in which the average value of an NFL team actually went down.

Joe Kukura is a freelance writer who is still waiting to be featured on Forbes magazine's "Brokest Bloggers" list.

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