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AlbaNY_Ram
I forgot to put the the link in my previous text so here it is: [
www.cincyjungle.com]
The NFL cap is based on all league revenues, and includes merchandise sales and ticket sales in addition to the income from the tv contracts.
I stand corrected then.
But the network contract is a huge part of it. In fact it's the biggest part.
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www.cnbc.com]
The CBA includes a formula, tied to total league revenues, that is used to calculate player costs. League revenues are divided into three revenue buckets. The largest is what the NFL earns from multibillion-dollar contracts with television and radio networks, such as CBS, NBC, Fox, ESPN and Westwood One....Next is money from the league’s various other media and marketing branches, including the NFL Network, NFL.com and NFL Films..... Finally, players get another 40 percent from each team’s local radio contracts and home-game ticket sales and concessions.
It's important to underline the fact that even revenue from home-game ticket sales is shared revenue in the NFL. So the cap is always covered by shared revenue.
Players's contracts go up because the cap goes up. As you said, tickets do not go up because of player contracts. It's the other way around.
There's nothing special about the article I quoted, btw. It was just the first one I looked at after a search brought up pages of them.
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