One of the biggest issues consuming the end of the last 2006 CBA negotiations wasn’t necessarily between the players and the owners, but between the owners themselves: revenue sharing. You may recall that the two owners to vote against the last deal were two small market teams (Jack Wilson of the Buffalo Bills and Mike Brown of the Cincinnati Bengals) who wanted more of the revenue from new stadiums and local marketing deals.
Well, the issue is rearing its head thanks to Jerry Jones:
“Right now, we are subsidizing this market,” Jones said, according to Sean Jensen of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. “It’s unthinkable to think that you’ve got the market you got here — 3 ½ million people — and have teams like Kansas City and Green Bay subsidizing the market. That will stop.
“That’s going to stop. That’s on its way out.”
This is a major issue that we’re going to explore and explain a lot over the next several months/years.
Filed under: NFL revenue, revenue sharing, Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, Jack Wilson, Jerry Jones, Mike Brown, ProFootballTalk
