Are There Ways Around The Salary Cap?

[Benton]

(06-06-2017, 05:00 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: Get local businesses to pay players a certain amount to do a commercial.

Have a "Boosters" club that will take players out to eat, buy them a car, let them win a golf tourney.

I can come up with some real inventive stuff.

Player signs a contract with a business to be their "Spokesperson" and once a year gives a speech on "Being a team player" in Hawaii after a two week stay.

To a degree, that already happens. But a team can't guarantee a player that X company will provide Y amount for doing a commercial. All they can say is "Hey, come play in New York. Look at the sponsorship deals these other athletes got. You can't make that kind of side money in Jacksonville." On the flip side, a small market team has to put up with that team from New York or Dallas or whatever big market making that pitch.