Salary Cap Increases Over the Years

[MaroonBells]

Salary cap has gone up 8 fold since it started in 1994. Today, 17 QBs make more per year than each team's entire payroll in 1994. I really should've bought an NFL franchise when I had the chance. 

[JustInTime]

Imagine where the cap would be without the boycott.

[StickierBuns]

Its quite the league, the game is perfectly made as a television vehicle. The importance, build up and drama of each game on Sunday is so unique. Fans and families build their whole Sunday, hell weekends, around their favorite team's NFL game. Spend $$$ on apparel, tickets, consuming alcohol/food, etc. Fantasy Football is bananas popular. Baseball is not America's Pastime, NFL Football is. Its bulletproof.

[medaille]

Its quite the league, the game is perfectly made as a television vehicle. The importance, build up and drama of each game on Sunday is so unique. Fans and families build their whole Sunday, hell weekends, around their favorite team's NFL game. Spend $$$ on apparel, tickets, consuming alcohol/food, etc. Fantasy Football is bananas popular. Baseball is not America's Pastime, NFL Football is. Its bulletproof.

I do think it's a perfect sport for the modern era.  Small snippets of action with a pause in between for those of us with short attention spans.  For the most part you know it's always going to be on at the same time on the day of the week everyone has off.  Every game is meaningful because they're so few.  Solid rivlaries.  Salary cap does mean most teams are succeeding more on their own merit than market size.  There's strategy at everyones football IQ level.  It's on free network TV.  There's on obvious, meaningful goal on every play or handful of plays.  We got 3 tries to get 10 yards.  We got one play to get past that line.

[MaroonBells]

Its quite the league, the game is perfectly made as a television vehicle. The importance, build up and drama of each game on Sunday is so unique. Fans and families build their whole Sunday, hell weekends, around their favorite team's NFL game. Spend $$$ on apparel, tickets, consuming alcohol/food, etc. Fantasy Football is bananas popular. Baseball is not America's Pastime, NFL Football is. Its bulletproof.

I think fantasy football is a huge part of it. I've seen people come to the Viking bar in Denver only because they have Jefferson on their fantasy team. And now with legal online betting, the interest in every game, even boring games you wouldn't ordinarily want to watch, has been turbo-charged. Men, women, families. I agree, it's bulletproof. 

There's just no way a sport that has 162 or 82 games per season can compete with a league that plays once a week, where each game is equivalent in importance to an 11-game stretch in baseball. The anticipation is enormous.