For most NFL players, their salary is their biggest form of compensation. As part of the collective

Salary caps are a very important tool used in professional sports. All 4 major professional sports leagues in the United States have a salary cap installed into their collective bargaining agreement between the league and its players. Those four major sports are, the NFL, the NBA, the MLB and the NHL. A salary cap is defined as s an agreement or rule that places a limit on the amount of money that a team can spend on players' salaries. It can be as a per-player limit or a total limit for the team's roster. It is basically put in place to help the small market teams stay competitive. It is meant so the wealthy teams, also called big market teams, does not always stay dominant by signing the best players to very big contracts. Salary caps are

A salary cap is designed to keep player salaries from increasing at the rate they were at the time. The salary cap is basically a set amount of money that each of the NFL's 32 teams is allowed to spend on player salaries for any given year. Since salaries have continued to grow at a rate outpacing the salary cap, teams have found ways to get around the cap. One way is signing bonuses, which don't count toward a team's cap for a given year. A player who receives a signing bonus gets more money for that year than his recorded salary, this way it leaves more room in the cap for the other players. The advantage for the player is that all signing bonus money is guaranteed to be paid, whereas an NFL contract is not guaranteed. All players receive a minimum base salary. The base salary is the value according to his contract. The cap value represents the player's calculated signing bonus, plus salary and other bonuses for the season.

ii. Many NFL players get paid for gaining titles such as: the most yards ran in a game, most touchdowns in a year, etc. The players can lose money and these titles if they are kept out of a game due to fear of a possible concussion

Players that are in the pros make the big bucks. Some of the top notch players in each sport make millions and millions of dollars. For instance Albert Pujols plays baseball and is arguably the best player to play the game right now and signed a 9 year contract that is worth over 200 million dollars! Football fight to get bigger salaries because they feel the need to get paid more since they have a greater risk of getting injured. Baseball the players don’t argue as much as football players when it comes to salary.

While growing up in the state of Texas I was introduced to National Football League (NFL) at a very young age. Not only was I obsessed with great players like Emmitt Smith and Michael Irving, I had a more finical appreciation for the lucrativeness associated with the NFL. My young adulthood as well as my teenage years was spent playing and learning football with the aspirations of hopefully making it to the NFL. Unfortunately, my playing days ended with tryouts at Texas Tech University, but my love for the game has remained stagnant over the years even till this day. The NFL today is Americas most watched sports league and has taken the crown as the most lucrative and unique economic force in sports. Forbes offered approximations stating that on average, the NFL generates more than $6-9 billion a year in revenues alone. A third of the individual franchises in the league were appraised at over more than $1 billion while the other franchises average nine figures or higher. The NFL as an organization generates its revenues through a multitude of ways ranging from huge television contracts, in-stadium ticket sales, advertising ads paid for by sponsors and merchandise. Their business model unlike most other leagues, is centered on a hard salary cap on player contracts which provides cost certainty with its sponsors. In this paper, I will examine the economic and historical narrative associated with the growth of the NFL’s

The collective bargaining agreements reached in professional sports are not industrywide. Rather, there is a separate one for baseball, football, etc. This makes bargaining in sports unique from other unions. Also, the clubs bargain as a group with unions over certain aspects of wages, hours and working conditions. However, the most important issue, individual salary, is negotiated between the club and player.

"Brees Concedes Athletes “probably” Make Too Much money." ProFootballTalk. Web. 25 Jan. 2016.) As a result he gets paid 20% of your team money you are getting paid too much. Like Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin made $13 million this past season. That’s the number his team and agent decided was fair based on what he provides on the court (defensive positioning, rebounding, some scoring and lots of intensity) and in relation to how that impacts his team.(Salaam, Khalid. "Are Professional Athletes Over-Paid or Justly Compensated?" MadameNoire RSS. 2010. Web. 25 Jan. 2016.)If you play not even half of your team's game you shouldn't be able to get paid $13 million a year.

Even “NFL-ready players” who are only one year out of high school have little choice but to play college football in order to maintain and showcase their skills until they’re “old enough” to play professionally. This process limits the players to have to play at the collegiate level where they won't receive any compensation other than a scholarship despite the potential they have (Mclaughlin). It is common in other sports such as soccer and basketball to see athletes straight out of high school playing at the professional level and receiving pay for their work (Neuhauser). These football players who are considered NFL ready should receive a salary to compensate for the money they could have been making in the NFL. The NCAA keeps member universities from offering players a salary in excess of room, board and tuition. The NCAA is effectively a cartel — an organization of independent entities that acts as a cohesive unit — to which all who want to play football professionally must donate three years of service

Think of it as if the coach is a professor and the players are the students. A student isn't going to get paid for showing up to class, studying and getting a good grade on a test, so why should college football players get paid to show up to practice and play some games? With huge profit that college football brings in, it is easy to give coaches a nice salary. Some coaches can get paid as much as just short of 6 million dollars. But, should the players get a small percent of that? Gonchar states, “The N.C.A.A. classifies Division I football players as amateurs, not professionals, student-athletes, not employees, which is how colleges get away with paying them nothing.” So, that's how coaches can get paid and not the

Free agents demand for very high compensation and this takes away major chunk of available salary. Every team has to come up with good balance of rookies and veterans to meet salary cap.

Whether it be baseball, football, soccer, or basketball, sports are appreciated not only in America, but all over the world. One of these sports that is particularly popular in America is Football. The immense crowds of people who sit at a stadium or on the couch to watch a game never fail to recognize every single play on the field; however, many fans pay little to no attention to one of the most important components of the game, the player-association relationship. When signing a contract with an NFL team an NFL player is effectively dedicating his life to his new organization. His duty is to play for his team in order to make the organization money, and money they make. In the NFL last year “each team received $226.4 million” (Brady 1).

Not all of an athlete's money goes directly into their pockets. An influx of money goes into a player's health insurance. Just for one knee replacement, around thirty to forty thousand dollars might be needed. Also not every player's salary is as high as you think they are. Wide receiver Greg Salas

A normal NFL player is paid about $860,000 Per year. But that could change because 2011-2014 they got paid about $770,000 a year but in 2015 they changed

If I could pay someone $25 million a year to get him/her on my team and generate $30 million, why not hire that player? The salary cap for the NFL is $102.5 million per team, and we currently have 32 teams, so we the public are paying 3.28 billion to those teams. Currently America is in a 11 trillion dollar debt, if athletes could get paid $150,000/year then we could save 1 billion dollars a year. The monetary worth of athletes exceeds the value that any one individual is actually worth. League officials should be using salary caps, negotiations, and legal tactics. Athletes' salaries are in increasing problem for the economy of our modern world. Although the sports have their own equal distributions, the overwhelming salaries of the leagues' highest paid players have made the average of salaries higher and higher each year.

The reason MLB players make so much is because there are 162 games per team a season not including the playoffs. Where as in the NFL there are only 16 games not including the playoffs. With baseball players playing multiple games per week & football players playing one or two games a week but usually one the money start to add up. It has also been argued that college athletes should be paid for what they do. While the NCAA is completely against collegiate athletes getting paid. However, that does not stop some players from getting money. Houston Texans running back Arian Foster came out and said in an interview that while playing football at Tennessee he took money on the side because he didn’t have enough money to eat. “My senior year I was getting money on the side.”- Arian Foster. “I really didn’t have any money. I had to either pay rent or buy some food.”- Arian Foster Also just last season Texas A&M Quarterback Johnny Manziel was put under investigation by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for supposedly receiving money for a large amount of autographed memorabilia that he signed. The NCAA is completely against collegiate athletes receiving money.