Revenue Sharing Update

[gil]

Apparently, the committee of 8 owners that Ralph is on came up with a plan to help small-market teams, they are now putting it up for a vote - from Chris Brown:

QUALIFIER COMMITTEE REACHES AGREEMENT: According to a report by Daniel Kaplan in the SportsBusiness Journal, the NFL's qualifier committee formed to come up with a way to allow needy teams to draw on a league revenue sharing pool reached an agreement late Sunday. Buffalo is one of the teams that is on the committee. The details of the system devised are not yet known.

The formula reached by the qualifier committee still must be approved by 24 of the 32 NFL owners to be ratified. If not then Commissioner Roger Goodell would have to decide on the issue. All signs however, point to an approval.


It's certainly positive that a resolution was finally reached. It will be very interesting to see what the details are.

and a related story from WIVB - http://www.wivb.com/Global/story.asp?S=6279985

[blackonyx89]

BREAKING NEWS!!! BILLS FUTURE!!!

http://www.wivb.com/Global/story.asp?S=6279985

I pray that this passes!

[blackonyx89]

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Has this been posted already? If so,sorry!

[Ickybaluky]

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According to Bob Kraft the qualifiers were agreed upon at today's meeting.

Cincinnati and Jacksonville were the only two teams to vote no.

One of the things he spoke about was something we just dealt with in the [meeting] room by approving the qualifiers of how we’re going to do revenue sharing for the rest of our agreement. So I think there is a feeling from a number of us that we appreciate what a great league we have, and how special it is. We’re partners inside. The real enemies are outside the room. I think we came up with a program now -- which was contingent when we did our labor deal -- that allows us to fulfill the last [piece] of the labor deal: a revenue sharing plan. If we hadn’t agreed, and it only had two negative votes, then the commissioner would have had the unilateral power to decide. So this takes us through the past year and the next three years....

I don’t think anyone is 100 percent happy with it, but when we did our labor agreement it was contingent on having this plan. I think it was a wonderful compromise with the committee. I’m glad it didn’t have to go to the commissioner and we got 30 out of 32 votes. I think it’s a very fair plan.

[YardRat]

Re: BREAKING NEWS!!! BILLS FUTURE!!!

Bills owner Ralph Wilson and a cross section of seven other team owners have agreed on a new plan that would level the playing field for the small market teams.
Now it goes to all the NFL owners for a vote, which could happen Monday in Phoenix.
Wilson had gotten a promise from New York Senator Chuck Schumer last year, that all efforts would be made to set the stage for "competitive balance" among the 32 franchises.
What this means, is that the NFL's top 15 revenue-producing teams, would give up some of their profits to the bottom 17 teams. A huge chunk of this money comes from television revenue.
The bottom line: this weekend an eight member committee, including Ralph Wilson, came up with a new plan. Without its passage, Mr. Wilson has said Buffalo might lose the Bills to a bigger city.

[Ickybaluky]

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http://www.billszone.com/fanzone/showthread.php?t=123125

The owners approved the qualifiers today, with only Cincinnati and Jacksonville voting against.

[YardRat]

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I'd like to see the details before I start doing cartwheels.

[camelcowboy]

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Jags, and the bengals these seem like small market teams as well wonder what they're beef with it is?

[OpIv37]

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Jags, and the bengals these seem like small market teams as well wonder what they're beef with it is?

I had the exact same thought-definite reason for concern

[Ickybaluky]

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Jags, and the bengals these seem like small market teams as well wonder what they're beef with it is?

The Bengals were going to vote against anything requiring qualifiers. Mike Brown just wants a handout.

I'm not sure what Jacksonville's deal is, but they are the franchise most likely to move, IMO. They don't get the support and probably shouldn't have been awarded an NFL franchise to begin with.

[ddaryl]

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so if it passes can we say goodbye to "cash to cap" ?

or do we still use the cash to cap plan even with additional revenue

[gil]

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so if it passes can we say goodbye to "cash to cap" ?

or do we still use the cash to cap plan even with additional revenue

I was thinking/hoping the same thing.

[BillsSabresB.C.T. Fan]

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NFL Owners Approve Revenue Sharing Plan

NFL owners voted 30-2 in favor of a new league revenue sharing plan. The plan would help small market teams like the Buffalo Bills remain competitive against higher revenue clubs, New York Senator Charles Schumer said Monday.

"The plan will keep the Bills right here in Western New York."

http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=46584

[Michael82]

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Hopefully this will give them more money so they can keep Spikes and start extending Lee Evans now. And maybe even explore a trade for Briggs.

[gr8slayer]

Re: Revenue Sharing Update

NFL Owners Approve Revenue Sharing Plan

NFL owners voted 30-2 in favor of a new league revenue sharing plan. The plan would help small market teams like the Buffalo Bills remain competitive against higher revenue clubs, New York Senator Charles Schumer said Monday.

"The plan will keep the Bills right here in Western New York."
http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_articl...?storyid=46584

Thank god, hopefully we can stop hearing about it now.