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CBS and NBC are paying $450M combined for Thursday Night Football rights. Plus, OTT money is still out there....The NFL won’t stop until it has devoured every dollar on the planet.
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Here’s some good news for people who hate Jim Nantz and Phil Simms but love watching Thursday Night Football: You only have to deal with them for five games next year.
The NFL announced today that NBC and CBS will share the rights to broadcast Thursday Night Football next season. CBS will get five games, NBC will get five games, and NFL Network will exclusively broadcast 10 additional games (some of these will actually be late-season Saturday games). The upshot of this is that fans will be seeing a bit less of Phil Simms (always a good thing) and a lot more of Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth, who will be calling NBC’s games.
The more remarkable thing about this new deal is that the NFL is somehow squeezing even more money out of these notoriously crappy Thursday night games. CBS reportedly paid $300 million to carry the games last season
Some events and attractions grant kids younger than a certain age free admission.
As Denver Broncos punter Britton Colquitt recently learned, the Super Bowl is not one of them.
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Colquitt was with the Broncos when they played the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLVIII a couple of years ago. This time around, the veteran punter needed to add another person to his ticket list: his newborn daughter.
It's going to cost him.
Colquitt last week told Cameron Wolfe of the Denver Post that he had to spend nearly $2,000 on a ticket for someone who won't be using her own seat:
There's no age limit to tickets. It's $1,800 for our week-old daughter we just had. It's kind of crazy. You won't remember, but I'm paying for it. It's not about the money because with the tickets you end up kind of forfeiting your Super Bowl check. It's about the medal I guess and the memories and putting your name in history forever.That's a steep price, given the situation. But considering this is one of the biggest games of Colquitt's career, he's willing to shell out the cash.
If Colquitt gets the chance to hold his daughter on the field in a confetti storm after the game, the ticket will have been well worth the cost.
--- Another NFL legend, Ken Stabler, found to have CTE in brain
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The New York Times is reporting that former Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler, who died rhis past July, had CTE.
His brain was donated to researchers to study for patterns of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), the degenerative brain disease made famous in the movie "Concussion" that is connected with repeated head trauma. On a scale of 1 to 4, Stabler was found to have high Stage 3 CTE in the research done at Boston University.
Dr. Ann McKee, who is the chief of neuropathology at the V.A. Boston Healthcare System and a professor of neurology and pathology at Boston University School of Medicine, conducted the examination and determined that Stabler had “moderately severe disease.”
The list of former NFL players found to have CTE, discovered by Dr. Bennett Omalu (portrayed by actor Will Smith in the movie "Concussion"), is now well over 100. The list of athletes showing signs of the disease is a who's who of former NFL greats, including Junior Seau, Mike Webster, Frank Gifford and now Stabler.
“Pretty classic," Dr. McKee said. "It may be surprising since he was a quarterback, but certainly the lesions were widespread, and they were quite severe, affecting many regions of the brain.”
The lefthanded Stabler was known for his free-wheeling style in a 15-year career with the Raiders, earning the nickname "Snake." He won the MVP in 1974, went to four Pro Bowls and led the Raiders to a Super Bowl XI victory over the Minnesota Vikings in the 1977 season. He often scrambled around recklessly yet effectively to extend plays and author highlight-reel moments swashbuckling Raiders of the 1970s. Stabler's final year in the NFL was 1984 with the New Orleans Saints.
We're in an era now where quarterbacks are far better protected and insulated from extra damage than they were a generation ago, and it appears that Stabler's style and a long career made his susceptible to damage that we normally assume happens more often with other positions. Such is the scary unknown of the disease that suddenly seems more prevalent than not in former NFL greats after they die.
Remember when Peyton Manning paid New Jersey nearly $47,000 in taxes two years ago on his Super Bowl earnings of $46,000? Manning has nothing on the state taxes facing Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton for Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, Calif. Newton is looking at a tax bill more than twice as much, which will swallow up his entire Super Bowl paycheck, win or lose, thanks to California’s tops-in-the-nation tax rate of 13.3%.
Before we get into the numbers, let’s do a quick review of the jock tax rules applied to professional athletes (similar tax rules apply to anyone doing business across state lines, but they are rarely enforced). States tax a player based on their calendar-year income. They apply a duty day calculation which takes the ratio of duty days within the state over total duty days for the year. That ratio is then multiplied by the player’s salary to arrive at a state’s allocable income.
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In 2014, Manning would have paid New Jersey a 51% rate on his $92,000 earned had the Denver Broncos won Super Bowl 48. Unfortunately for them and Manning’s legacy, they were blown out by a Seattle Seahawks team that knew the right plays to call all night. So Manning paid a whopping 102% tax to New Jersey on his $46,000 consolation prize.
Skip ahead two years and now Manning is back in the Super Bowl against the highly-talented and highly-compensated Cam Newton, who signed a five-year, $103.8 million contract extension in June. Newton has already earned $58,800 so far this year for week 17 of the 2015 season and $71,000 in playoff bonuses. Newton is due a $10 million signing bonus and $13 million in base salary for the 2016 season. Luckily, week 17 next season will occur on New Year’s Day 2017, thus shielding about $765,000 from California’s grasp.
If the Panthers win the Super Bowl, Newton will earn another $102,000 in playoff bonuses, but if they lose he will only net another $51,000. The Panthers will have about 206 total duty days during 2016, including the playoffs, preseason, regular season and organized team activities (OTAs), which Newton must attend or lose $500,000. Seven of those duty days will be in California for the Super Bowl and another four will be in the Golden State for road games against St. Louis Los Angeles and Oakland next season.
Win on Sunday, and Newton will pay California a total of $159,560 in taxes in 2016. Lose, and he will pay $159,200, based on an income reduction of $51,000.
To determine what Newton will pay California on his Super Bowl winnings alone, we will ignore the four 2016 season duty days and pretend they are being played elsewhere. In looking at the seven days Newton will spend in California this week for Super Bowl 50, he will pay the state $101,600 on $102,000 of income should the Panthers be victorious or $101,360 on $51,000 should they lose.
The result: Newton will pay California 99.6% of his Super Bowl earnings if the Panthers win. Losing means his effective tax rate will be a whopping 198.8%. Oh yeah, he will also pay the IRS 40.5% on his earnings.
It is a good bet that the more dabbing we see Cam Newton doing on Sunday, the better the Panthers’ chances are of winning Super Bowl 50. Either way, California’s tax man will be dabbing right along with him all the way to the bank.
LOL@Check Two dissing Cam Newton's clothes hahahahahahahahaha. I don't know why he wore those wack pants.
lol @ the Panthers. Cam didn't want to break a nail to go after a fumble I guess.
Yea that was week as fuck. Didn't deserve it after that.
Congrats to Denver. Great defense.
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Also: $15 popcorn :fucku:
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Now some dummies are saying Bill Romanowski's comment about Cam acting like an immature little boy was somehow racist.
LOL@Check Two and IronSheik hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. I picked Carolina to win and I'm not mad they lost. Denver has a good defense and they sacked Cam Newton about 4-5 times. Carolina's offensive line played bad.
lmao...that last TD was the final straw!!!!
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Bum Lesean Mccoy the focus of an investigation involving a fight with off duty police officers over a bottle of champage.
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NFL says this was all just an honest misunderstanding...lmao & makes you wonder how their commish gets all those fat stacks!
& we only know his salary cuz they have to report it as a tax-exempt nonprofit (final year)
The NFL reportedly kept a significant amount of money from the NFL Players Association, according to Matthew Futterman of the Wall Street Journal.
Citing Futterman, Frank Schwab of Yahoo Sports noted that "arbitrator Stephen Burbank ruled last week that the NFL withheld about $120 million in ticket revenue from a shared pool, which the report said kept about $50 million in salary from players."
Continuing to cite the Wall Street Journal, Schwab wrote that "the dispute came from a provision in the collective bargaining agreement that allows teams to exclude money from the shared pool from personal seat licenses, premium seating and naming rights to stadiums."
That income is frequently used to finance new stadiums, and the NFLPA discovered the withheld money during an audit of the NFL's finances.
"They created an exemption out of a fiction, and they got caught," NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said, per Futterman.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said the issues arose from a "technical accounting issue under the CBA involving the funding of stadium construction and renovation projects," per Futterman.
Schwab noted the Wall Street Journal reported the revenue the league returns to the shared pool will "add about $1.5 million to the 2016 salary cap for each NFL team."
While that is not much when it comes to player salaries, it will be helpful for squads looking to make additions when free agency opens at 4 p.m. ET March 9. If nothing else, it gives teams extra flexibility as they look to add difference-makers and provides players with the opportunity to make slightly more money on upcoming contracts.
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I'm glad the Browns are getting rid of Johnny Manziel next month and I see the Redskins got rid of Robert Griffin. I wonder where Robert is gonna go and that's sad the Redskins let him go because they should've kept him so he could be a backup. Washington DC has a bad history of getting rid of black quarterbacks. Look at what they did to Doug Williams and Jason Campbell. Doug got them a championship.
Jason champell sucked and so does Robert Griffin. It's not cause of their race.
Jason did go to several teams like Raiders, Browns, Bears and Bengals hahahahahahahahahahaha. Isn't he still with Cincinnati? Robert don't suck.
--- Manziel’s steamy night with Miami swimsuit model revealed
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Going to miss "Omaha" but it was time.
Pretty good retirement speech. Teary eyed right out of the gate though.
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I see Calvin Johnson of Detroit retired and Philadelphia let DeMarco Murray go to Tennessee. I bet Calvin got tired of losing and that's why he retired hahahahahahahahahahahaha. He only went to the playoffs twice and lost. Detroit was a bad team even when Barry Sanders was there and that's why he retired early LOL. Philadelphia Eagles are a mess and they can't seem to keep any players for a long time. DeMarco should've stayed in Philadelphia because Tennessee is gonna be bad for awhile and he's gonna be unhappy LOL.
Demarco had a bad season with the eagles.
So what. That don't mean he had to leave. Tennessee sucks and they're gonna be bad for awhile. I get so tired of players moving from team to team because they're mad about the money they're getting or they're mad about the coach not playing them enough. Sean McCoy should've stayed with Philadelphia. One thing I liked about Donovan McNabb and Randall Cunningham was that they stayed with Philadelphia for a long time. I know Donovan went to a couple of teams because he was with the Redskins and Minnesota. I think Minnesota was the only other team that Randall played for.
sean mccoy got in trouble for getting into a fight at a bar recently.
Yeah I heard about that and he's retarded because he fought a off duty cop. He probably got drunk and that's what caused him to have a argument with the cop and try to fight the cop. Black men just love being ignorant hahahahahahahahahahaha. They just can't help themselves but they got the nerve to get mad when white cops kill them and lock them up LOL. Their dumb asses loot and burn their neighborhoods because white cops kill them. But they won't do that when black men kill each other hahahahahahahahahahaha.
dumb move on both sides since he hasn't really proven himself + contract not guaranteed
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who is the broncos qb now?
^ no one yet but rumor is they want to trade for Kap (which SF says they're not trading) so likely RG3
rg3 would be the starter? lol
they're still in trade talks w/SF for Kap
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Is Kap going to be the backup?