Let's just post this, verbatim, from ESPN's news feed. Compare the amounts for 2015 and from five years ago...
NFL teams each received $226.4 million from the NFL as part of national revenue sharing from the 2014 fiscal year.
The amount was revealed on Monday when the Green Bay Packers reported their share of the pie. The total surpassed $7.2 billion and comes mostly from the league's television deals.
The
national-revenue-sharing pot, split 32 ways, is up from slightly more
than $6 billion last year, because the new TV deals with CBS, NBC, Fox,
ABC/ESPN and NFL Network kicked in this past season. The
national-revenue-sharing amount is up 120 percent, factoring for
inflation, over the past 11 years.
In the 2010 fiscal year, the league split a little more than $3 billion among its 32 teams.
An increase of 120% over the last eleven years. Almost enough to cover concussion lawsuits...
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Monday, July 20, 2015
Friday, June 12, 2015
On betting and gambling...
Proud to brag (against my Christian beliefs) that despite Port Adelaide's favored status, my Geelong pick held up, and they won by 23 in the Adelaide Oval Friday night, Aussie time.
The correct pick pushed me up into the top 1/2 of 1% in the various AFL "tipster" contests at afl.com.au - so let that be evidence that you can trust my prediction advice! The CFL site has a similar contest, so I thought I'd try it out this season as well, although my Aussie knowledge is definitely superior to my Canadian! Can't hurt to try, since they're all free to enter.
It's a far cry from risking my own money on someone else's athletic prowess and flukes of injuries and the whims and follies of men in the twenties. If you're going to gamble your hard-earned coinage, do it on your OWN abilities, or at the very worst, on something with some statistical basis for your projection.
And if you must gamble your money, KNOW WHEN TO STOP. Set a limit that you can afford, and stick to it. If you can't stick to it, NEVER GAMBLE. When someone with an addictive personality gets into the "I can win it back" mode, they're doomed. If, on the other hand, you enjoy gambling (whether it's sports betting or slot machines or poker or the lottery) as much as, say, a nice dinner out? Take forty dollars (or whatever the evening is worth to you), go enjoy yourself...but when that money is gone, YOU'RE DONE. If you can't stop then, DON'T START! No "just one more"s, no "but I was just about to get hot!"....
When it comes to sports, there are so many free competitions on line you can compete in - get the thrill of the bet without the painful side effects. You have no excuse to hamper your life and that of your family by throwing money down the toilet with nothing to show for it but regret.
The correct pick pushed me up into the top 1/2 of 1% in the various AFL "tipster" contests at afl.com.au - so let that be evidence that you can trust my prediction advice! The CFL site has a similar contest, so I thought I'd try it out this season as well, although my Aussie knowledge is definitely superior to my Canadian! Can't hurt to try, since they're all free to enter.
It's a far cry from risking my own money on someone else's athletic prowess and flukes of injuries and the whims and follies of men in the twenties. If you're going to gamble your hard-earned coinage, do it on your OWN abilities, or at the very worst, on something with some statistical basis for your projection.
And if you must gamble your money, KNOW WHEN TO STOP. Set a limit that you can afford, and stick to it. If you can't stick to it, NEVER GAMBLE. When someone with an addictive personality gets into the "I can win it back" mode, they're doomed. If, on the other hand, you enjoy gambling (whether it's sports betting or slot machines or poker or the lottery) as much as, say, a nice dinner out? Take forty dollars (or whatever the evening is worth to you), go enjoy yourself...but when that money is gone, YOU'RE DONE. If you can't stop then, DON'T START! No "just one more"s, no "but I was just about to get hot!"....
When it comes to sports, there are so many free competitions on line you can compete in - get the thrill of the bet without the painful side effects. You have no excuse to hamper your life and that of your family by throwing money down the toilet with nothing to show for it but regret.
Monday, January 26, 2015
NCAA playoff semifinal dates...pending?
This report is straight from Dr. Saturday, and it hits a topic I'd been wondering
about as well...
Report: ESPN, NFL want CFP to change date of semifinal games
By Sam Cooper3 hours agoDr. Saturday
College Football Playoff Executive Director Bill Hancock poses with the College Football Playoff National Championship …
ESPN apparently isn’t too happy about it.
According to the Sports Business Journal, ESPN executives “are lobbying CFP officials” to move next season’s semifinal games – the Capital One Orange Bowl and the Goodyear Cotton Bowl – from New Year’s Eve to Saturday Jan. 2, 2016.
On New Year’s Eve, ESPN’s broadcasts would compete with a bevy of countdown broadcasts that bring in the New Year. With ratings in mind, ESPN is hoping for a change.
From the SBJ:
Sources say that senior network executives as high up as ESPN President John Skipper are pushing for the change as a way to get better television ratings, but the CFP is unwilling to make such a move because it is committed to the original plan to hold tripleheader bowl games, including the semifinals, on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
Despite ESPN’s wishes, the CFP isn’t budging.
“We’ve started a new tradition and we don’t want to back away from it now,” said Bill Hancock, the CFP’s executive director.
The championship game drew record ratings (33.4 million viewers), while the semifinals each drew “more than 28 million viewers.” According to the SBJ, “ESPN insiders say they are prepared for double-digit drops in viewership” if the games stay on New Year’s Eve.
On top of the wishes of ESPN, the NFL is mulling the possibility of expanding its playoffs. One of its new playoff games could potentially be moved to Monday, which would “compete directly with the CFP championship.”
Because of this, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell reportedly met with CFP commissioners to discuss a potential conflict.
From the SBJ:
Sources say NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell initiated a series of high-level meetings with some of the CFP’s most influential commissioners, including the SEC’s Mike Slive and the Big Ten’s Jim Delany. Goodell approached the commissioners to discuss the potential impact an NFL playoff expansion would have on the CFP championship game.
Additionally, Goodell reportedly “told the college commissioners that any playoff expansion likely would put a wild-card game on Monday night.”
The CFP’s 12-year contract with ESPN has the title game being played on a Monday night and Hancock said the CFP office is opposed to an NFL playoff game being played on the same night.
“We picked Monday night because it was open and it was the best night for our game. We announced that in June 2012,” Hancock said. “We established that our game was going to be on Monday night for 12 years.”
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Sam Cooper is a contributor for the Yahoo Sports blogs.
Sunday, November 30, 2014
UAB ELIMINATES FOOTBALL! Idiocy Cited!
As elucidated here in Sports Illustrated, the University of Alabama board of trustees has voted to eliminate football at the UA-Birmingham campus - like, basically right now, following their impending bowl game now that first year head coach Bill Clark and long time AD Brian Mackin have brought the program back up to respectability at 6-6.
Let me repeat that.
The UAB Blazers, having spent years trying to build this football program, having hired a tremendous young and up-n-coming coach who's done great things with a young team this year, just had the rug pulled out from under them.
As Thayer Evans points out, there were warning signs that fueled the rumors all season...why won't they extend Clark's contract?...why hasn't Mackin put any more non-conference games on the schedule beyond next season?
But the nastier rumors swirl beneath the surface, and they're worse than the pay-the-players scandals and the sinecure-jobs-for-athletes tales we fear: the University of Alabama trustees were afraid of any competition for the affections of the state with the Crimson Tide of Tuscaloosa. Gene Bartow's role is discussed in Evans' article, but there's a down-South, good-ol'-boy network at play that's downright frightening. As if the University of Auburn isn't competition enough, we don't want no young whippersnappers pulling the carpetbaggers out from under us. This seems to have been brewing for a while - those non-conference games should have been scheduled three years ago. (Most teams have at least some games scheduled into the 2020's.)
Look out, South Alabama and Troy. You're next. Ain't NO one gonna stand in the path of Lord Saban and the Tide...
Let me repeat that.
The UAB Blazers, having spent years trying to build this football program, having hired a tremendous young and up-n-coming coach who's done great things with a young team this year, just had the rug pulled out from under them.
As Thayer Evans points out, there were warning signs that fueled the rumors all season...why won't they extend Clark's contract?...why hasn't Mackin put any more non-conference games on the schedule beyond next season?
But the nastier rumors swirl beneath the surface, and they're worse than the pay-the-players scandals and the sinecure-jobs-for-athletes tales we fear: the University of Alabama trustees were afraid of any competition for the affections of the state with the Crimson Tide of Tuscaloosa. Gene Bartow's role is discussed in Evans' article, but there's a down-South, good-ol'-boy network at play that's downright frightening. As if the University of Auburn isn't competition enough, we don't want no young whippersnappers pulling the carpetbaggers out from under us. This seems to have been brewing for a while - those non-conference games should have been scheduled three years ago. (Most teams have at least some games scheduled into the 2020's.)
Look out, South Alabama and Troy. You're next. Ain't NO one gonna stand in the path of Lord Saban and the Tide...
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Always an interesting topic...
...albeit not necessarily a pleasant one. According to the UAB Boosters program, Alabama-Birmingham is considering dropping its football program, although the administration does not publicly confirm that at this time.
The ramifications are (to be clinical) interesting and complicated. It involves conference affiliations, academic priorities, money to the school, money into the community, and all sorts of financial and administrative issues.
Is big-time football - y'know, FBS level, fill-the-stadium, every game on TV kinda football - required for a major university? Is it necessary? Is it practical in 2014? Is it a waste of resources? Is it a drain on university funds?
Where does it sit on the list of priorities for a university chancellor and board?
These are the questions that, frankly, every school needs to ask itself periodically. We can't blame UAB admins for considering it; we blame them even less for suppressing the consideration, because of the panic it causes in some places. But every sport - and by extension, every department, activity, and expense - deserves scrutiny in 2014.
Decide what's important, and spend your money on that. End of story.
The ramifications are (to be clinical) interesting and complicated. It involves conference affiliations, academic priorities, money to the school, money into the community, and all sorts of financial and administrative issues.
Is big-time football - y'know, FBS level, fill-the-stadium, every game on TV kinda football - required for a major university? Is it necessary? Is it practical in 2014? Is it a waste of resources? Is it a drain on university funds?
Where does it sit on the list of priorities for a university chancellor and board?
These are the questions that, frankly, every school needs to ask itself periodically. We can't blame UAB admins for considering it; we blame them even less for suppressing the consideration, because of the panic it causes in some places. But every sport - and by extension, every department, activity, and expense - deserves scrutiny in 2014.
Decide what's important, and spend your money on that. End of story.
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