NFL Tickets: Where does the money go? (AUDIO)
For those of us that have often wondered where proceeds from NFL game tickets go? In this podcast, The Cleveland Plain Dealer provides an estimated breakdown of NFL team profits and expenses percentage of revenues, player costs (amortized signing bonuses, performance bonuses, salaries, benefits): about 61 percent of revenue.
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NFLPA Attorney Predicts Lawsuit Will Be Tossed
Nearly 2,100 former pro players, including two dozen ex-Steelers, say they’ve been unfairly roughed up by the National Football League Players Association and want a jury to award them $100 million in damages.
The lawsuit claims the players’ union and its marketing wing, Players Inc, botched multimillion-dollar deals with 96 vendors that use the likenesses of athletes in ads, collector cards and video games. The trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 20 in San Francisco.
The union’s lawyer, Jeffrey Kesler of New York, predicted the jury will toss it. READ MORE
Retired Football Player’s Association, Uniting the Former Player
With the recent developments concerning pension and disability benefits of the retired player there is no greater time for all of the worth-while advocates of the former player to unite under one umbrella. Change will come from a united base and the Retired Football Player’s Association is leading that charge. Under the RFPA umbrella, existing and local organizations will continue to work independently while utilizing the leverage of a nationally unified base.
The change we need cannot be ‘piece-mealed’ through several organizations. A central unifying organization is needed and your participation in the RFPA will give the retired player the ‘unified voice’ it so dearly needs.
Membership is only $20. Join Today by clicking here
For more information on the RFPA visit www.retiredfootballplayers.org
