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:
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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.