The NFL is meant for the entertainment of fans and people around the globe who want to tune in every weekend and watch their favorite team play its great sport. Unforchantly there is a dark side to the game just like there is in every sport. When money is involved it starts to become more of a business that a spot. Players and owners then start to worry more about the money their making over their talents on the field. Here are some facts about money in the NFL as it relates to the Collective Bargaining Agreement and total team/owner/player revenue.
Players get roughly 60% of what's defined in the CBA as "Total Revenues" after a number of categories of expense credits. Players get roughly 50% of all NFL revenues.
Commissioner Goodell recently claimed that player salaries are increasing faster than NFL revenues: "'That is one of the issues that the owners want to address in the collective bargaining process - the dramatic increase in salaries and the salary cap itself, while revenues are not growing as rapidly,' says Mr Goodell. 'When your costs grow faster than your revenues, ultimately that becomes a difficult problem.'”
These are some of the big issues facing Goodell in this agreement. It’s a he said he said game of money and everyone doesn’t want their wallet to shrink but to get bigger. It’s a sad world be live in when money makes the world turn.
(For some reason my graphs wont copy onto the post so please check out http://www.nflplayers.com/about-us/2011-Lockout-Central/ to the graphs that deals with money.)
-chieffan81
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