Main Issues Behind the NFL Lockout and the Numbers Involved

1. Main Issues Behind the NFL Lockout and the Numbers Involved

2. 2011NFL Lockout Reasons behind the Lockout deal. • Owners Want a 18 Game Regular Season • Owners Want More Overall Money • The Amount of Upgrades the Facilities Cost • Rookie Salary Caps and the Reason Why It’s Needed

3. Owners Want a 18 Game Regular Season- Owners Side • Sell more tickets. Just in 2010 the ticket prices rose 4.5% to $76.47. That is the average ticket price of the whole NFL. But still they want more games to make more money. And the average of the NFL for a premium seat rose 5.6% to $238.94 from last season. • Average NFL attendance is 67,519. Average on ticket sales a team makes $5,163,177.93 per game. Add two more games and they would make $10,326355.86 more per season in ticket sales. • With a sixteen game season the number of money required on average of all the teams from ticket prices sold is: $82,610,846.88 • If it was increased to eighteen games the total would be: $92,937,202.74 • So obviously, the owners want more money and that is the bottom line that they are looking at.

4. Owner Wants a 18 Game Regular Season- Players Side • From the players side the injuries are fewer yes, but the dramatic head injuries go up. • During a full year the injury breakdown goes as followed: 1- 16.1% percent of injuries in training camp. 2- 24.7% in preseason. 3- 57.9% during the regular season. 4- 1.3% during play-offs. (less teams) * The big point for the players not wanting to expand the season is that the likely hood of a major injury to the head or a career ending injury to happen goes up 21.2% from the regular season (Which ends in week 16). Extends the regular season two more weeks and pushes the play-offs back, which will led to more career or long term injuries to happen to the players. The players obviously have a very strong side to look at and will not be ignored.

5. Owners Want a Bigger Piece Of the Pie • On average the annual NFL profit is around 9 billion. Previously the owners were allowed to take 1 billion off the top of that for stadium upgrades and other miscellaneous operating expenses like that. Then the players would get 59.6% of the remaining money which is the salary cap that the players organization get paid with. The total money to be spent on players if 1 billion was taken off the top of the 9 billion made in 2010 is 4.8 billion would be spent on the players. • Now what the owners are trying to get is 2.4 billion off the top. If they did that the players would receive a 18% pay decrease for money to be spent on them. Which would be 3.9 billion to be spent on players based on the assumption that in 2011 they will make 9 billion in total like in 2010. • If the players agreed to this new deal it would mean each owner per team would receive 44 million dollars extra to the $31,250,000((1billion/32(NFL Teams)) they already receive with the previous deal. • Both sides have a legit side to why the other side should agree with their side, so that is why the arguments are on going.

6. The Bigger Piece of the Pie Goes To Facilities, or so the Owners Say • This is the only side that the owners are right based upon I think so anyways. Due to the fact that previously, the football stadiums facility upgrades use to get some of the tax payers and governments dollars, but not anymore so now its almost all on the owners money. • The players see it that 13 of the 32 NFL teams have got new stadiums since the year 2000. Also nine NFL stadiums were built between 1989 and 1999 so they can still last for another 10 years or so. Plus 4 other stadiums have received major renovations since 2000 as well. With all those stadiums out of the big need for a new stadium to be built or major renovations needed that means only 15% of the NFL teams need major renovations or a new stadium to be built. The players say that that is not good enough to cut off 1.4 billion extra off the top of the overall income made so each owner of each team can get an extra 44 million each year.

7. Rookie Salary CapThe Neutral Point • In the first round of the NFL draft of 2010, from a first overall player signing a Six year, $78 million contract with $50 million guaranteed before even stepping on the field to the last pick still signing a Five years, $12.25 million with still $7 million guaranteed before playing. It was obvious the rookie class needs a salary cap put on. Since 2002 when David Carr was drafted first overall the money that is guaranteed to the first overall players has gone up 359% to Sam Bradford. The $50 million he got this year was even 19.9% jump up from the year before. It’s obvious a rookie cap is needed, and both side agree on this fact, now its only up to deciding what it will be.

8. REference * http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/nfl-lockout-2011 Tim Wendel, The NFL Lockout's Health-Care Data, Revealed, (January 27, 2011) • http://www.walletpop.com/2010/09/27/hike-nfl-ticket-prices-continue-to-rise/, Hike! NFL ticket prices continue to rise, Sarah Coffey ( September 27, 2010) • http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/09/05/us-nfl-tickets-idUSN0540327220080905Ben Klayman, NFL average ticket price rises 7.9 percent: study, (September 5th, 2008) • http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/nfl-lockout-2011 Tim Wendel, Dangers of The Game Health Report, (January 27, 2011) • http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicago-bears-huddle/2011/03/nfl-lockout-for-dummies-the-2011-labor-dispute-explained.html Adam Oestmann, The 2011 Labor Dispute Explained, (March 3, 2011) • http://thehouseofspears.net/?p=360 NFL Lockout: An In-Depth Analysis of the Lockout Situation,(April 16th, 2011) • http://profootballupdate.blogspot.com/2011/01/rookie-salary-cap-makes-1st-round-picks.html Bill, Rookie Salary Cap makes 1st Round Picks more valuable , (January 16, 2011) • http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-the-nfls-skyrocketing-rookie-salaries-2011-1Cork Gaines, The End Of The NFL's Skyrocketing Rookie Salaries, (January 6, 2011)