TheKeyBlue Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 GANG OF NINE REVEALED NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw recently said that nine NFL franchises are resisting the expansion of revenue sharing by the league's 32 teams. Upshaw also told Mark Maske of The Washington Post that the nine teams are planning to file suit if they are forced to share revenues that currently are not distributed evenly among all teams. A league source has identified for us the members of this modern-day Mudville nine: the Redskins, Eagles, Cowboys, Giants, Jets, Panthers, Broncos, Patriots, and Texans. We'd previously heard that the NFL and the union tentatively have agreed to expand the components of so-called "Defined Gross Revenue" (which is the basis for the team-by-team salary cap) to include money not currently shared by the various franchises. The proponents of enhanced revenue argue that, if any currently unshared revenue streams are to be included in the determination of DGR, the corresponding revenue should be shared equally -- and that, if the revenue is not to be shared, it should be excluded from the DGR calculation. The source also confirmed that the Mudville nine plan to sue if they are forced to accept expanded revenue sharing by the other 23 organizations. Frankly, we still don't understand how it would ever come to that, since nine votes are sufficient to block any changes to the way the NFL does business, given that 24 "yes" votes would be required to, for example, impose expanded revenue sharing. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello tells us that, under the current system, teams share all national broadcast revenues, all sponsorship revenues, all licensing revenues, and the visiting team's share of ticket revenues. The following revenues aren't shared: the home team's share of the box-office revenue, local radio revenue, local TV revenue, local sponsorship revenue, and stadium-generated revenues from signage, concessions, parking, luxury suites, etc. We shouldnt have to share our hard earned mechandising and stadium dollars with teams like Arizona that doesn't even try. We arn't communist, too bad for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldskool Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 please repost this more often. TIA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OVCChairman Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 i find it funny that 4 of those 9 are the whole NFC East....haha, we are the NFC BEAST in every aspect of the league! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philal0102 Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 i totally agree... even though you ARE a cowboys fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsTillIDie Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Maybe we'll agree to the revenue sharing proposal, just to screw you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No_Pressure Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 No we arent communist, and I can bet money that we make more money than anyone...I mean jesus ticket prices are like 50,000,000 a piece for nosebleed and the parking is like 1,000,000 which is important when transportation isnt nearly as good as RFK with the metro right by the stadium, all this coupled with the 90,000 seats, and our first playoff team in years you can bet Dan Snyder isnt gonna support this commie BS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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