Quote Originally Posted by Guiness View Post
And where does the rest of the money go? If the total salary comes down to half of their current level, do you think the owners will drop prices?

I would guess you're purposely overstating the salaries as well in an attempt to make a point. They don't make $10 million - a select few do.

A ballpark average salary is pretty easy to figure out if you look at 2009. 59 players count against the cap of $130 million cap gives you $2.2 million/player. But that's too high, subtract the big hitters for 2009:
(source http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/62145597.html)
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Aaron Rodgers, QB     $9.653M     
Greg Jennings, WR     $8.149M     
Chad Clifton, T       $8.040M     
Charles Woodson, CB   $7.300M     
Donald Driver, WR     $6.400M     
Aaron Kampman, OLB    $6.005M     
A.J. Hawk, ILB        $5.902M     
Al Harris, CB         $4.775M     
Nick Barnett, ILB     $4.684M     
Ryan Grant, RB        $4.400M
So, top ten earners make $65.44M, leaving $64.6M for the remaining 49 players - or $1.3million per. So given that the average number of wins/year is 8, your plan would actually be a raise for a lot of players.

Still as astronomical sum of money for most of the rest of us, but certainly not $10million per season.
Correct exaggerated for effect.

I know it would be a big increase for most of the NFL. This is Obamanomics at its best! Redistribute the income from all the teams and the "extra" goes partly back into the pockets of owners, partly to the cities that were dumb enough to fund their stadiums and part to retired players. The extra to the owners to be used to loan money to teams to build new stadiums so they stop fleecing us