Favre Paying Immediate Dividends for Jets, NFL With Ridiculous Jersey Sales

The Jets are banking on Brett Favre making them some money on ticket sales (I would imagine). More importantly, they're looking for some more wins this year. But there's also another bonus to pulling in everyone's favorite Gunslinger for the 2008 season. Jersey sales.

Darren Rovell, busy immersing himself in all that is Beijing (Woo! America!), took some time out this weekend to compile a few numbers on what Fav-ruh has already meant to both the Jets and the NFL in terms of everyone's favorite statistical accumulation: $.

*NFLShop.com sold 6,500 jerseys in 24 hours. A record number of jerseys sold of one player. The league's online Web site also experienced a record one day revenue take.

*More Favre jerseys were sold on Newyorkjets.com in a single day than any month in 2007.

*On eBay, the average Favre item sold jumped in price from $24.60 the day before (Wednesday) to $47.86 on Thursday.

*eBay's ticketing site Stubhub also had its biggest revenue day. Stubhub spokesman Andy Pray told CNBC that about 2,500 Jets tickets changed hands through its site.

The most fascinating part to me isn't the tickets -- I expect that. But more #4 jerseys sold in a day than any NYJ month from 2007 (that's how I'm reading the statistic, since Favre jerseys weren't getting sold on NYJ.com last year)?

That's a lot of early cheddar folks, and Favre hasn't done anything but be enough of a nuisance to force the Packers into trading him. It's reasonably safe to assume, I think, that the Packers aren't losing out a ton of money on the jersey sales, simply because everyone in Green Bay already has a Favre jersey.

On the other hand, I bet everyone's favorite player, Aaron Rodgers, isn't watching his jersey fly off the shelves either.