In 2006, the NFLPA hinged its final proposal for a new CBA on the league’s adoption of a meaningful system for sharing the unshared revenues, such as naming rights on stadiums and luxury suite fees.
The league complied, via a process that reallocates certain revenues generated by the team’s earning the most money based on need.
But now ESPN reports that the league has informed the union that the supplemental revenue sharing plan will be scuttled in March 2010.
Per the report, the union plans to challenge the move via a “Special Master” proceeding, an arbitration-style legal claim resolved under the auspices of the federal court that supervises the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
The union plans to argue that the league can’t make the change without the union’s approval. The league contends that it has the right to do so without NFLPA consent.
The supplemental-revenue fund represents only 1.5 percent of the league’s total revenue. Still, the redistributed money helps to ensure that all teams are profitable. Without it, some could be hurting — and for a team like the Vikings it could be the final straw that forces a move to Los Angeles.
Come on Politicians…Get a new stadium in Minny already. Pawlenty – I’m talking to you!
On the bright side if the vikings move to LA. Jared Allen could be a Beverly Hillbilly.
I say abolish rev sharing, this way Jerry Jones can have his boys play the other six teams in the League that survive.
with the economy in a sh*thole like it is, the owners are squabbling over millions when they are worth billions. what a bunch of asses, i would like to see 32 “for-sale” signs and no bailouts
This may be the biggest looming issue. The fight over collective bargening and revenue sharing.
you’re welcome, florio
Say goodnight to your team KC. You’re joke of a set of fans couldn’t even get to 80% capacity on the day you were retiring the jersey of D. Thomas #58.
Goodbye minor league town, Hello Hollywood….
Fan_Of_ Four says:
December 6, 2009 4:07 PM
I say abolish rev sharing, this way Jerry Jones can have his boys play the other six teams in the League that survive.
Well said, very hard to understand that the owners of the big francises cant see what will happen.
Less teams, less games, less interest from the people that dish out the money!!!
Seems like a no brainer!!
The biggest problem with this country, when is enough money, enough?
Wow… so the players union thinks it has the right to tell the owners how to manage their finances now?
How long before Obama’s central planners get involved and call a summit to make them an offer they can’t refuse, like they did with the banks, auto companies, etc, etc… it’s not like De Smith can’t call in the heavy artillery, he did run Obama’s transition team.
Some of you guys make me sick…it’s not Jerry Jones responsibility nor the responsibility of any other successful NFL owner to pay for failed businesses i.e. Vikings, Jaguars, Rams etc. The idea that because they have billions that they should part with it is truly absurd and disgusting. When is enough money, enough? Really?? It’s never enough because you have shit head democrats always wanting to take it away and give it to someone who decided they wanted to take the easy road and not earn anything in life i.e welfare, medicare etc. etc.
“Without it, some could be hurting — and for a team like the Vikings it could be the final straw that forces a move to Los Angeles.”
To sit and pretend that the vikes are the only team that would be even considering a move under a situation like this (the vikes are not going anywhere) seems to be a lie by ommision Florio. The jags, the chargers, the raiders, the lions, the bills, hell you can’t even rule out teams like the rams, and cardinals, would all be considering moves like this. Folks in Minnesota heard for years and years that the twins where going to be contracted or moved and we’ve overcome. Seems like haters (you) are running out of ammo so instead are going after the fans.
The vikes are going no where, hopefully a new stadium is comming quickly, but whether its this year or a couple down the road, the vikes are staying here.
Jerry Jones was right.
Small market teams like the Chiefs and Packers should not be supplementing the vikings who have troubling selling tickets in a market that size.
Grinning fist pump by Ed Roskie. His stadium can make the NFL more than half a million more dollars a game than the Metrodome.
Abe71 says:
December 6, 2009 5:35 PM
Some of you guys make me sick…it’s not Jerry Jones responsibility nor the responsibility of any other successful NFL owner to pay for failed businesses i.e. Vikings, Jaguars, Rams etc. The idea that because they have billions that they should part with it is truly absurd and disgusting. When is enough money, enough? Really?? It’s never enough because you have shit head democrats always wanting to take it away and give it to someone who decided they wanted to take the easy road and not earn anything in life i.e welfare, medicare etc. etc.
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Are you retarded?
There are more teams in trouble than the amount of teams that are not if this happens!
By the way Viking haters, did you know there has been a contract made between the Gophers and the Vikings for the Vikes to play in the Gophers new stadium until this Vikes stadium is done!!!!!!!
Mn is in trouble with money but it would be worse if this type of revenue was gone, so trust me its going no where.
Get over your hating and shut the hell up!!
Abe71 is totally right!
The NFL should turn itself into Major League Baseball. Let’s the same handful of teams make the postseason every year. And we’ll have 50% of the teams have ZERO chance at the postseason as of week one. And all of the best free agents will always go to the Cowboys, Redskins, and Patriots! Yay!
It’s the American way! It doesn’t matter what makes sense, what actually works in real life, or what’s good for everyone involved. The only thing that matters is that cut-throat, unregulated, wild-west style corruption is exactly why our country was founded, why every soldier ever defended it, and how are sports are meant to be played!
Good-bye, you communist-loving Green Bay Packers!
Abe71, I don’t know how old you are because you don’t have a clue as to how stupid this is for the league. Back in the ’60s, Adams, Hilton and Hunt could have spent the NFL into near extinction but Rozelle got the owners to follow the AFL and share revenue. The Giants could have survived because they had as much of an advantage over the NFL owners that was as much as the Yankees had over their MLB counterparts but a lot of other teams would have went under. The Giants gave up a lot of revenue for the good of the league and they were able to survive AS A LEAGUE. The AFL not only shared revenue but the richer owners actually gave their poorer teams loans or outright grants in order for them to stay in business and in some cases, they spread their share of the TV revenue to the poorer teams, much like the supplemental revenue sharing that’s being talked about. They did all of this for the GOOD OF THE LEAGUE and that’s why there’s an NFL today and a team like the Green Bay Packers can compete against the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys, despite not having the kind of TV market that these two teams have.
I’m a fan of the Pokes but from the moment that greedy bastage has shown up in Dallas, I’ve hated what he’s tried to do for himself and not the league. He seems to think that he’s responsible for all their success but the fact is that if it wasn’t for NFL Films putting the “America’s Team” tag on the Cowboys, he’d be just another owner trying hard to make it in the league. He’s had a built-in advantage from the day that he took over the team and all he’s had to do was not screw up and the revenue comes pouring in. Not because of him but in spite of him. Let him take over the Vikings and let’s see if he can increase their revenue stream and get the stadium that he has in Arlington. I think he’d be in for a rude awakening about how much of a financial genius he is and he’d realize that the markets NEED the help and that it’s hard to be taken seriously as a league when your teams keep going out of business (Like the Arena Football League, which showed how well Jerry Jones COULDN’T do as the league was unable to survive him and his fellow NFL “geniuses”).
Edgy, lets agree to disagree regarding Jerry Jones as I believe he’s done a lot for the league and the Dallas Cowboys…no need to go back and forth on issues we won’t see eye to eye. Regarding the issue at hand, I’m 38 so by no means a young buck anymore however, although Pete Rozelle did something good for the benefit of the league, the fact remains that over the last couple of decades, it is obvious that teams took advantage and abused the revenue sharing system. These are not the 60′s anymore and oportunities have been available to all teams yet the sagging, lack luster teams/owners have been content with the status quo and have not bothered to better their team and sit back for the league to give them hand-outs hence my previous comments. I have a saying that I’ve used for years in my industry which is, “do not let emotion cloud your judgement” which you can apply to almost every aspect in life and while you can flip the script on me per se regardng this subject, you can’t deny that teams or rather failing owners have no one to blame but themselves. Why penalize the successful ones? I know, I know….the old revenue sharing policies.
This is NOT about the here and now as much as it’s been Jerry Jones’ wish from the moment he entered the league. He’s pushed for severing as much of the revenue sharing as possible but he too stupid to see that if they went to a system that allowed every team to fend for themselves, he’d be sucking hind teat WELL BEHIND the Giants for TV revenue. New York gave up a lot of revenue and if they ever had it all by themselves, he would understand how the Texas Rangers feel when it comes to having no where near the revenue that the Yankees have. If they started having to fend for themselves, you can bet that the line to get to LA would be long and then where would he be if he had to compete against TWO LA teams and TWO New York teams, with more TV revenue than he could possibly imagine. You can fantasize, like Jones, that “America’s Team” can compete with a lot of national revenue rolling in but the money that the Giants and Jets would make in local revenue ONLY would make him cry.
The other thing is that this isn’t MLB. There are floors because of long-time cheapskates like Cincinnati and also, let’s not forget that when Jones came into the league, there was no cap and that’s when most of the cheapskates squirreled away their profits. With the salary cap, the more important factor was the FLOOR, which minimized the amount of money that a team could squirrel away. This year’s cap of $128 mil has a floor of $112.1 million. If there wasn’t a cap AND there was still revenue sharing, I can guarantee you that there would be teams that would be putting away a lot more revenue than what they do now BUT they don’t put away as much revenue as Jones might want you to think.
BTW, you might look back at when JERRY took profit. Figures from 2000-2008 (USA Today) show that he was below the NFL average for 3 years (2000, 2001 and 2004) when the team was 26th of 31, 30 of 31 and 31 of 32 in salary. He didn’t start getting to the upper levels of salary until 2006 so he’s being a little hypocritical about his fellow owners taking profit.
Bob Nelson says:
December 6, 2009 6:26 PM
Jerry Jones was right.
Small market teams like the Chiefs and Packers should not be supplementing the vikings who have troubling selling tickets in a market that size.
Grinning fist pump by Ed Roskie. His stadium can make the NFL more than half a million more dollars a game than the Metrodome.
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What a fool, did you know your Packers are in the same boat of receiving money like your hated Vikings?
Pack
Indy-yes Indy
Vikes
Chiefs
Jags
Cincy,etc……………
Its probably easier to name the teams that dont get this sharing.
All I got to say is if you hate the Yankees, get ready to hate the Giants or the Jets.
The funny thing about your comment is that ESPN uses the Pack in their example of how bad this would be by saying.
“The pack would never have won their last Superbowl because they would never have been able to afford Favre”
Go read about how serious this is to all our teams in the small markets, (that means the Pack also)
I know its hard for you to beleive.
But just read the facts before you open your uneducated mouth and look more retarted than you really are.
The NFL is going to MESS UP football.
Why change the system that has created the most successful sporting market in the US?
Greed… and greed is what killed the NHL, MLB, and next… the NFL.