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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 574050"><p>If NFL teams had to negotiate their media deals independently, which I believe will never happen, the result would be a Major League Baseball-like balkanized landscape. </p><p></p><p>Just as the Yankees and Dodgers have more revenue than small market teams by several factors because of local media deals, so too would be the case with the NFL. Even with MLB's partial revenue sharing and "taxes" on high payrolls being distributed to poorer teams, there are teams with $250 million payrolls and others with $40 million payrolls.</p><p></p><p>I'm sure there are some NFL owners who would welcome this development. Just as the big market MLB teams have been stingy in their revenue sharing programs, offering the minimum amount to maintain some kind of competitive balance, so too might the likes of Jones and Snyder. First, they have not been able to win under the current salary cap system. Second, they could make more money for themselves without the sharing.</p><p></p><p>The idea that the Packers would be paid handsomely to broadcast their games out-of-market is wishful thinking. Direct TV pays $1 billion per year for <em><strong>all</strong></em> out-of-market broadcasting rights. Even if one assumes the Packers out-of-market broadcasts are worth twice as much as the average, once one divides $1 billion by 16 that's not a lot of coin in the great scheme of things. </p><p></p><p>NFL antitrust exemptions were established by an act of Congress and it would take an act of Congress to strike them down. These guys could not agree on what to order for lunch and there's no signs that will change any time soon.</p><p></p><p>That said, the recent FCC ruling opens a crack in the ediface. But I think it will take people marching in the streets over their tax dollars going to NFL stadiums while being blacked out at home for this to get any traction.</p><p></p><p>Somebody wake me up when something actually happens.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 574050"] If NFL teams had to negotiate their media deals independently, which I believe will never happen, the result would be a Major League Baseball-like balkanized landscape. Just as the Yankees and Dodgers have more revenue than small market teams by several factors because of local media deals, so too would be the case with the NFL. Even with MLB's partial revenue sharing and "taxes" on high payrolls being distributed to poorer teams, there are teams with $250 million payrolls and others with $40 million payrolls. I'm sure there are some NFL owners who would welcome this development. Just as the big market MLB teams have been stingy in their revenue sharing programs, offering the minimum amount to maintain some kind of competitive balance, so too might the likes of Jones and Snyder. First, they have not been able to win under the current salary cap system. Second, they could make more money for themselves without the sharing. The idea that the Packers would be paid handsomely to broadcast their games out-of-market is wishful thinking. Direct TV pays $1 billion per year for [I][B]all[/B][/I] out-of-market broadcasting rights. Even if one assumes the Packers out-of-market broadcasts are worth twice as much as the average, once one divides $1 billion by 16 that's not a lot of coin in the great scheme of things. NFL antitrust exemptions were established by an act of Congress and it would take an act of Congress to strike them down. These guys could not agree on what to order for lunch and there's no signs that will change any time soon. That said, the recent FCC ruling opens a crack in the ediface. But I think it will take people marching in the streets over their tax dollars going to NFL stadiums while being blacked out at home for this to get any traction. Somebody wake me up when something actually happens. [/QUOTE]
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