I could use some help understanding the reveune sharing issue...Here is my cut on the problem, please tell me where I have this screwed up.
If I understand the problem, the deal from the union is that the players want 59.5% of the total revenue the teams bring in as the salary cap. Not necessairly a bad thing at all...right?? However, the teams only get the reveune they produce, plus some bit of revenue sharing. So if the total NFL revenue is $100/yr, the players get $59.50 of that in their contracts, so if we assume there are 30 teams (to make my math simpler), Buffalo pays out $2.00 in salary to stay even with the rest of the teams (30X$2.00=a little over the cap of $59.50, but keep it simple for me)...but the problem in Buffalo is that their owner's revenue is only $1.00 out of the total $100 that is counted to determine the cap. So then Ralph Wilson says share 30% of the revenue eually amongst the teams....Jeffy Jones doesn't like it, cause his revenue is $4.00/yr. But they end upsharing the 30% of the total, so now each team gets their piece of that, so the Bills total revenue is $1.00-.30 (for rev sharing)+$1.00 (the distribution of revenue sharing) which gives them a total revenue of $1.70/yr, but they have to pay the players $2.00/yr....therefore the Stinkin bills lose money....right??? Meanwhile, because Dallas brings in $4.00 (bigger market, luxury boxes, local TV, etc, none of which are options in Buffalo), they give up their 30%, so they end up with $4.00-$1.20(revenue sharing out)+$1.00 (distribution of rev sharing) for a total of $3.80...so Jerry Jones makes money, but not as much as he thinks he should, so he doesn't like it either?? Right? or way, way off??
