A word on NFL revenues

SI.com's Ross Tucker points out that the Green Bay Packers, the small market Green Bay Packers, the market that lacks the sponsorship and marketing wherewithal of every other NFL city, made a profit of $20 million last season. That's profit. "If a franchise in a miniscule market can turn a profit during a historically down economy, what does that say about big money owners like Dan Snyder and Robert Kraft?" he wrote. This was the league that laid people off, if you recall. Oh … the salary cap also went up by $1 million per team, which means revenues went up overall. Tucker wonders if the league's layoffs were merely an attempt to cry poverty with a re-do of the Collective Bargaining Agreement on the horizon. "Telling an employee with three kids they no longer have health benefits because the owner still wants to rake in $30 million is just bad karma, even if it can be justified as good business," he wrote.