NFL tickets currently average $100 each. If the owners increased ticket prices so that the average ticket prices was $150 instead of $100 ...
... league revenues would increase $900M
... the players would get 47% of that, or $423M. That would raise the cap by $13.22M ... which averaged out over a 53 man roster works out to just under $250,000 a player.
... in the mean time the owners get 53% of the revenue increase, or $477M. Divided equally among the 32 owners that works out to just under $15M for each owner.
So, when the owners raise ticket prices up to that $150 mark - and they will, eventually - will it be so the players can get another $250,000 each? Or will it be so each of the owners can pocket another $15M each? (As for me, I think it's that second thing.)
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