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Exilednight

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4. That's where I agree. Not every team took part, if you

Reply to okaawhatever (Reply #1)

Sun May 10, 2015, 04:28 PM

May 2015

Follow the links in the story you will find a list of which teams did and how much.

I'd like to believe, and I did at the time, that teams were doing this out of appreciation. Now it just looks like several did this out of corporate greed. In 2013 each team received approximately a quarter of a billion dollars from the NFL, and that doesn't include what each team made independent of NFL revenue.

They can afford $5 million collectively.

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