1. Revenue Sharing of TV deals.
This past season the Green Bay Packers received $187 million from the NFL for TV deal. We know this amount because the Packers are a public owned team and such they are required to release team financial records. This means everything in the NFL received about the same amount, this allows team to compete evenly in the same playing field. If not, teams like Buffalo, Cleveland, Green Bay will not be able to compete with bigger markets like New York, Chicago, Washington, and New England.
2. Revenue Sharing of Ticket Sales:
In the NFL, the home team receives 60% of the income generated from the game and the away team receives 40%. There are incentives for teams not to share some of the other revenues such as revenue from corporation sections of the stadiums. So in today modern NFL, teams are increasingly building new stadiums to put less individuals or regular seats as the regular seats are the ones that go into revenue sharing. In essence bigger market teams do not like the revenue sharing.
3. Stadiums:
Almost of all the teams in the NFL are financed by tax payers money. Since 1999, the only team that was not finance by taxpayers, is the New York Jets/Giants (MetLife Stadium).
The Dallas Cowboys 2009 stadium was financed by taxpayers 28%, Philadelphia Eagles 2003 by 40%, Arizona Cardinals 67.7% 2007, Denver Broncos 2001 68%, Houston Texans 2002 73%, Cleveland Browns 1999 75%, Pittsburgh Steelers 2001 79% and Indianapolis Colts 2008 86%.
4. 501(c) Status:
The NFL is considered a non-profit organization, which means there are exempted from paying taxes but the teams it self do pay taxes. The average salary in the NFL is right about $2million with about an average career length of 3 years. When you take a look at all the revenues that these players generate for the teams and the league they are hugely under paid. But yet the commissioners of the NFL Roger Goodell compensation in 2011 was $29.5million
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