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Excellent article by Esmonde, and a point that's been thumped since Ralph first opened up during the CBA vote...the new guys are going to be the ruin of the league unless Wilson can garner enough support from the old guard to keep the changes in revenue-sharing from being made.
Don't tell me Ralph is a senile businessman that's been passed by the times...the man has more business acumen and passion for the NFL in his little finger than Jones, Snyder, and Kraft have collectively in their entire bodies.
The problem is a Cold New Breed of big-market, huge-egoed owners like Washington's Dan Snyder and Dallas' Jerry Jones, who can't control their Inner Capitalist. They either don't understand or don't care about the all-for-one concept that built the league into a mega-monolith.
The situation is worse than folks thought. Bills officials say that if the 87-year-old owner passes on and the team is sold, a new owner wouldn't get any slice of the booty from big-market teams like Dallas and Washington. It would all but doom the Bills in Buffalo - particularly with the coveted Los Angeles market still NFL-less.
The league grows further away from the philosophy that made it great.
The situation is worse than folks thought. Bills officials say that if the 87-year-old owner passes on and the team is sold, a new owner wouldn't get any slice of the booty from big-market teams like Dallas and Washington. It would all but doom the Bills in Buffalo - particularly with the coveted Los Angeles market still NFL-less.
The league grows further away from the philosophy that made it great.
One by one, richer owners broke ranks to go for more of the gold. Dallas' Jones was the first to exploit the loophole of unshared revenue from luxury boxes. The me-first principle prompted a glut of new stadiums filled with luxury seats (or hefty upgrades of old ballparks) that cost taxpayers in NFL cities billions of dollars.
The rich got richer, and they don't want to share their excess with their (relatively) poorer brethren. It threatens the competitive balance that turned the NFL into a money-printing machine.
The rich got richer, and they don't want to share their excess with their (relatively) poorer brethren. It threatens the competitive balance that turned the NFL into a money-printing machine.
Wilson also is worried about the impact from a fundamental change in the way the salary cap is calculated. The new labor deal counts all football revenue in calculating the salary cap, rather than excluding certain revenue such as naming rights and sponsorship money as the previous system did. He estimated that the new stadium for the New York Jets and the New York Giants will bring in so much additional revenue for those teams that it will drive up the salary cap for the Bills and all NFL teams by $2.3 million a year.
"Every new stadium costs the Buffalo Bills money," said Wilson, one of two owners to vote against the new labor deal. "The teams that have built these new stadiums where they can charge very high prices for suites and club seats and regular seats have thrown things out of balance."
"Every new stadium costs the Buffalo Bills money," said Wilson, one of two owners to vote against the new labor deal. "The teams that have built these new stadiums where they can charge very high prices for suites and club seats and regular seats have thrown things out of balance."
Don't tell me Ralph is a senile businessman that's been passed by the times...the man has more business acumen and passion for the NFL in his little finger than Jones, Snyder, and Kraft have collectively in their entire bodies.
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