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UNION CHANGING ITS TUNE? Although the NFL would not comment, a league source questioned whether the NFLPA was now changing its tune with bargaining for a new CBA going on. “They have been telling their players and others for years that they are getting 60%,” said the source. “Now they are changing the definition of total revenue to make the percentage look smaller. They know the real dollar numbers and how the players have gotten a huge windfall in the current CBA.” Many labor and sports business experts have said it is nearly impossible to make an apples-to-apples comparison because of how revenues are calculated and what costs are taken out before determining revenues. For example, in the NFL, costs such as the cost of making a T-shirt are deducted before calculating the revenue the T-shirt brings in. The NFL CBA also provides that the union give the league credits for stadium construction, above and beyond the 5% for other costs including general operating costs. That amount is about $1B, according to Mawae and Smith’s letter, and the 51.3% in the letter refers to actual dollars.

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