(10-28-2017, 04:13 PM)PF* Wrote:

(10-28-2017, 02:10 PM)Etdavis2006 Wrote: The cap is determined by the tv money not money from tickets and sell. The tv check has been cut already. The cap is going up

Aren't they all related, though, ET? I (obviously) don't know how it works but are you saying that the TV contract(s) alone determine the cap through the end of the contract(s)? Then the TV renegotiation process will determine what the next cap levels will be? That makes sense if so.

So this is maybe the simplest explaination I could find:

https://football.calsci.com/SalaryCap.html

[url=https://football.calsci.com/SalaryCap.html][/url]The tv contracts alone do not determine the salary cap but the tv contracts are worth so much money they contribute to roughly about 67% or the cap. The other 33% is a combination of NFL licensing (jerseys, video games basically anything with a team logo or nfl shield) and ticket sales. The licensing contributes to about 30% of the 33% remaining money. About 3% is ticket sales, maybe less and that money is only split between the two teams playing. 

So that was more hyperbole on my behalf. No the entire salary cap in not dependent on the tv contracts but the bulk of it comes from the tv contract and another large chuck comes from the licensing. Ticket sales are a drop in the bucket interms of determing the salary cap.

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