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Let’s continue the Player Benefits list. Player Benefits are subtracted directly from Player Cost Amounts to get to the annual Salary Cap number for each NFL Club. Only until we reach that level of understanding can we move forward with specifically how NFL GM’s maneuver and manage the financial constraints placed upon building an annual NFL roster. The Tuition Assistance Plan The League and the Player’s Union have gone out of their … [Read more...]
Part 2 of a piece The Football Educator began on Player Benefits (NFL Salary Cap - Counting on Player Benefits) and defining those amounts that are subsequently subtracted from Player Cost Amounts to determine the annual NFL Salary Cap. The list picks up below; Funding for worker’s compensation, payroll, unemployment compensation, social security taxes – These tax based expenses are normally incurred by businesses regardless of the … [Read more...]
The Football Educator’s last 3 posts have centered on defining the idea of “Revenue” and the various sources throughout the National Football League’s business operations that help to fill the so called “buckets”. We’ve examined where the money is generated from, what various efforts by ownership are allowed as credits, and the obscure, sometimes unseen rules that pick and poke at that overall revenue number. Robbing Peter to … [Read more...]
Recent cases involving veteran NFL players have reinforced to me the importance of NFL ownership. Proprietary control of a professional football franchise is an elite club and one that many successful businessmen and women have aspired to. Only a small number ever get the opportunity to own an NFL franchise. Membership has been garnered through a number of avenues. Membership required Some teams have been handed down through generations … [Read more...]
It’s that time of year in the National Football League - the season has ended, the college all-star games are over, and the rest of the professional football following fan base and media impatiently await for something to sink their teeth into. Next up is the annual scouting combine in Indianapolis, but even that feels “light years” away for those that clamor for something real to dissect and examine. So the headlines speculate and … [Read more...]
I was recently on a radio program out of Kansas City discussing the various aspects of the search for the Chiefs’ new head coach. After what could be construed as two failures under the current regime of front office management, owner Clark Hunt has decided to take matters into his own hands. Hunt had just finished a reported 9 hour interview with candidate Any Reid, former head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. Is the Head Coach the … [Read more...]
“Black Monday” as most of the media outlets like to call it. However within the ranks nobody ever refers to the day after the last regular season game as “Black Monday”. That’s a contrived moniker for another day at the office in the National Football League. Part of what makes professional sports appealing to both the fans and the media is the undertow of critical judgment that comes with the job, "Black Monday" included. Our … [Read more...]
A show of hands from those that really understand the power of social media. Anyone? How about those that ever dreamed the likes of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Texting, and YouTube would be such a major component in all our lives? One friend, 10 followers, 100 subscribers, 1000 links. For a society so challenged by interpersonal communication, we’re actually more connected and instantly in tune than ever before. Back in the … [Read more...]
As the NFL regular season cranks down and the playoff picture begins to become clear, so too does the thermostat crank up underneath those teams on the outside looking in. Rumors run rampant as to Head Coaches and General Managers that might soon be part of the federal government’s monthly unemployment report. And as hot as the names on the “to be fired” list are, there are an equal number of lists beginning to speculate who their … [Read more...]
The Mayans, the Greeks, the Romans - three civilizations that dominated their window in time through advanced cultures. Three civilizations that saw that window slam shut through the internal and external dynamics that tore away at the fiber of their identities. The Packers, the Cowboys, the 49ers. - three NFL organizations that dominated professional football over the course of multiple seasons. Three NFL organizations that saw that … [Read more...]
