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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 866541">Cap rollover, i.e., cumulative cap not spent since the 2011 CBA, goes to the bottom line.  For example, Cleveland has $32 million in cap rollover, additional profit since 2011 relative to spending up to the cap.  I don't know if that's the highest but it is a meaningful amount for a business that is marginally profitable to start.  If they go all in, spending up to their cap ceiling before the 2021 CBA kicks in would wipe out that cumulative profit.  I doubt that happens.If a team had consistently stayed at the 89% level, which none did, unused cap would have ranged from about $13 mil in 2013 up to what looks like about $22 mil for 2020.  Cumulatively, that would be a meaningful amount for a marginally profitable business.  None did that, otherwise one of them would be sitting on something close to $100 mil in cap carryover.If the point of owning a marginally profitable franchsie is the cache or vicarious participation or bragging rights or a high public profile, underspending to the 89% level at the cost of the win-loss column starts to defeat the purpose.  And the win-loss column has a lot to do with butts in seats in a lot of places.  Still, the years Cleveland or Oakland carried over $50 mil, give or take, was likely the margin between being in the red or the green for that year.</blockquote>

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