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Apparently the folks at ehow.com are confused too: "Understand that there is a minimum salary cap floor for each team. This figure is 75 percent of the salary cap for a given year. In 2007 this figure will be $81.75 million. Which is 75 percent of the $109 million salary cap. No NFL team can spend less than this amount on player salaries."
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Originally posted by coolman3
Lets assume this is correct for a moment. This latest research shows your thesis numbers wrong too. Shouldn't you have done this before you turned in the paper?Comment
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Call it dumb luck if you like, but I was speaking about the NFL as whole in my paper, and not individual teams.Originally posted by Scott Campbell
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Is there a Minimum Salary?
Answer: Yep. Under the new CBA, the players are guaranteed 50% of Leaguewide Total Revenues. In the event that player costs are less that 50% of Total Revenues, then, on or before April 15 of the next League Year, the NFL shall pay an amount equal to such deficiency directly to the players.
More specifically, beginning in 2006 each team had to pay a guaranteed Minimum Team Salary of 84% of the Salary Cap. Each year that percentage goes up by 1.2%, which means that it is 85.2% this season. However, the Minimum Team Salary cannot extend beyond 90% of the Salary Cap. Any shortfall in the Minimum Team Salary at the end of a league year has to be paid, on or before April 15 of the next league year, by the team(s) having such shortfall, directly to the players who were on that team's roster at any time during the season.
Now you know why some of the smaller market owners had issues with the new CBA!Go PACKComment
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Gregg Easterbrook of ESPN.com: This year (2006) the floor is 84 percent of $102 million, meaning teams must spend a minimum of $86 million on players -- and $86 million was last year's maximum! Next year the salary cap floor will be 90 percent of $109 million, mandating teams spend at least $98 million on players.Originally posted by Bossman641MIKE SHERMAN IS THE ONLY GM IN NFL HISTORY WHO NEVER MISSED THE PLAYOFFSComment
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Not really.Originally posted by Bossman641
The NFL TV revenue is shared...and to maximize revenue, you need teams to spend money on players and get fans excited.
Players are the ones who make the league profitable, not a bunch of fat suits sitting in luxury boxes. They deserve to get their fair share of the revenue...and not have some rich owner sit on a pile of money and not actively try to improve his team, like many MLB teams do.
I don't see why a small market team would mind this as long as TV revenues remain shared and larger than the cost of salaries. If an owner wants to cut costs, he can do it plenty of other areas outside of player salaries.
Green Bay gets $125M a year from the shared TV deal money. By this agreement, they only have to pay $86M in salaries at this time...and it won't grow to a point that will exceed the TV revenues.My signature has NUDITY in it...whatcha gonna do?Comment
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Originally posted by The Leaper
Why the anger towards the "fat suits"? They, along with the players and the networks are all responsible for bringing the entertainment into our homes.Comment
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Not my words, I got that info off a website but I agree with you. I don't think there is much of a problem in the NFL with teams not reaching the minimum cap number, not like in baseball were owners sit on cash.Originally posted by The Leaper
Probbaly wrong, but I seem to recall only like 1 or 2 teams failing to reach the cap amount last year, cause I'm pretty sure their players received a few hundred or thousand dollars in order to make up the difference.Go PACKComment
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I'm not angry.Originally posted by Scott Campbell
I'm just pointing out that the fat suits aren't the reason we are watching. Fat suits also bring us crap like "Cavemen". Should we be grateful to them for that as well?
The Packers don't have a fat suit, and things seem to be going along just fine. So clearly, the fat suit isn't really all that necessary.My signature has NUDITY in it...whatcha gonna do?Comment
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Have fun, gents. Tank, you might want to try quoting THIS reference document if you want the guys to take you seriously...
Don't leave home without it. And don't try to fake it, I have a searchable copy on my hard drive..."Greatness is not an act... but a habit.Greatness is not an act... but a habit." -Greg JenningsComment
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Sorry to bring back the topic but....
I have some leftover pep rally tickets, PM me if you are interested. Yes, they are free....well, for 99.9% of the people on here anyhow
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Anyone with a video??
Out of towners missed the live action.
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Only 10,000 showed up. That's a lot, but in Green Bay I almost expected more.
I wonder if Mad's last name is Barclay.
If you are a foreignor, you are guaranteed to get your entry printed. Two Canadians and a Mexican were posted out of this week's five.http://www.packers.com/news/stories/2008/01/11/1/
My father has been a Packers fan for 42 years. He wrote several letters to Lombardi and coach answered back; the Barclay family have been Packer fans ever since. On Sunday, December 30, 2007, we had the chance to be at Lambeau for the first time in our lives. We'll never forget that moment and we hope to come back soon. Joy tears are still running on our faces...from Mexico with love, Go Pack Go!
Manuel -- Mexico City, Mexico"There's a lot of interest in the draft. It's great. But quite frankly, most of the people that are commenting on it don't know anything about what they are talking about."--Ted ThompsonComment
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This one is sweet. I wonder how the little guy is doing.
We wanted to go to Lambeau Field and see the Packers, but I was diagnosed with Leukemia in May and was restricted from traveling too far, so we got tickets to the game in St. Louis and passes to go on the field. We gave a gift to a trainer for Brett and a couple minutes later, Brett's security guard came over to us and told us Brett wanted to meet us. Brett came over and took pictures with my sister and I and gave each of us one of his wrist bands. It was an experience we will never forget!
Nathan -- Bloomsdale, Missouri"There's a lot of interest in the draft. It's great. But quite frankly, most of the people that are commenting on it don't know anything about what they are talking about."--Ted ThompsonComment
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I caught part of this on TV last night when I got home. Frank Winters was there and I had to chuckle a bit because he seemed to forget TT's last name. After a couple of attempts, he settled on Thomason.
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