IF You Ever Wonder About the Bengals Not Having Any Money

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(03-28-2017, 01:04 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: There is revenue sharing in the NFL and the salary cap is set to a percentage of the total revenue. The system assures that the Bengals have money to spend.

Being in a small-market is irrelevant in the NFL.

Now in Baseball and Hockey it does matter.

No doubt, it certainly helps a lot to insure a profit for owners. But a small market team with 360 million in revenue (including NFL sharing of revenue) and a cap spend of $150 million makes far less than a team like Dallas with 1 billion in revenue and the same cap spend of 150 million because Dallas can't spend more than the cap limits, just like the small market teams

So this biggest expense (payroll for players) is close to being even in spite of big markets having much more revenue. They created revenue sharing because small market teams could not afford to spend as much the big markets without help from the NFL. This would have created a situation of billionaires buying championships which was not good long term for any owner and the league.