One of the other seldom discussed parts of all of this is the impact that revenues have on the NFL salary cap. We can talk all that 'greedy owners' rhetoric that enflames the masses, but the NFL is not about that anymore.
The NFL and NFLPA have a ratified Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that has a specific mathematical formula for dolling out the dollars. Thanks to that new agreement, 48.5 percent of the NFL revenue is earmarked to players in the form of the NFL salary cap. (it was 47% before)
So whatever the NFL takes in through 2021 in terms of ticket sales, television revenues, and merchandising sales, 48.5 percent is automatically dedicated to the players in the form of a higher (or lower, as was the case of 2020) salary cap.That rate was upped due to the agreement to play a 17th regular season game.
The players benefit alongside the owners. The difference is that owners don't get banged up. Many of the dissenting players about preseason games are in fact the elite stars who have lucrative contracts. They don't want longer seasons. They don't want preseason games. They are contracted at a fixed sum.
So it's not just the owner who are greedy. A lot of players who are at minimum scale or one-year deals benefit from preseason games too. It all pours into the pool of money to be divided up the following year.
There is a lot more good stuff in this ESPN story if you are interested in the bean-counter part of the NFL
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/19/2021 07:54AM by HornsUpRamily!.
