Originally Posted by
Tony Oday
Thats what I mean. If they dont like making 10's of millions then f them and now you are capped EVERYONE makes $1 Million a year base salary and $100,000 per win for every player. Dont like it? Want to see the books? Start your own damn league and look all you want.
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.