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(08-06-2016, 07:29 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: ^^^my taxes don't pay NFL salaries

But they support the team...which is paying the players salaries.  Sorry.

http://www.forbes.com/teams/cincinnati-bengals/

Quote:The Bengals kicked off the 2015 season with a new $10 million Daktronics scoreboard at Paul Brown Stadium. Hamilton County taxpayers are covering $7.5 million of the cost, which is part of a broader deal the county and Bengals reached whereby the team will pay about $4 million toward stadium improvements. Taxpayers might as well get used to such subsidies as the lease between the team and county requires the county to cover renovations for years through a county-wide sales tax. The Bengals took advantage last season of the NFL's 85% rule regarding blackouts. The rule allows teams to declare a sellout and broadcast a game on local TV if only 85% of non-premium tickets are sold. The NFL relaxed its previous 100% tickets-sold policy in 2012, but teams must declare before the season if they want the rule to apply to them.