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How many 100 million dollars QB won a super bowl?
If you adjust money for the years they played, going back to superbowl 1.
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record-shattering salary back in 1965 (427K for three years) comes to a bit more than 3.1 million today, in buying power. At least via online calculators. Again, who knows how accurate these things are?
So there's been inflation even when you factor in . . . .
inflation. And he had the major advantage of pitting two teams against each other. He was drafted by the Cardinals
and the Jets.
It;s not "buying power." That has nothing to do with it.
It's percentage of revenue. NFL contracts keep going up. But they keep going up because revenue keeps going up, since revenue is basically centered around the tv contracts. That's just a fact whether or not we personally are hung up about it.
How much would a young and ready to play Namath make today if he were up for a second contract?
Cousins got 28 M. It would have to be in that range or more.
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ZN, I think you read that too quickly. The calculator said it was 3.1 million in buying power today. I plugged in the 400K for 1965 and it spit out the 3.1 million in current (2018) buying power. That's got nothing to do with the NFL specifically, or Namath's contract. It was just a cold-eyed, software translation of dollars then to dollars now.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/04/2018 06:56AM by Billy_T.