Faust
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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-s...y-review-nfl-tax-exempt-status-004521453.html
The U.S. Senate may — and should — review the NFL’s tax-exempt status
The U.S. Senate may — and should — review the NFL’s tax-exempt status
from the article:The NFL its self doesnt pay taxes, the individual teams do.
still messed up, any and all profits just goto goodell and other execs?
While member teams obviously operate for profit, the interesting wrinkle here is that the league itself claims not to. And one way to avoid profitability is to pay your current and former executives up the wazoo, which the NFL has done. In 2012 alone, the league paid approximately $53.8 million to its big -ticket execs, including $11.6 million to Commissioner Roger Goodell and $8.5 million to former Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, who replaced Rozelle in 1989 and ran the league until Goodell replaced him in 2006. In 2011, Goodell received a $22.3 million bonus after negotiating several enormously lucrative extensions with the television networks that provide the predominant percentage of the league's revenues.
Gosh, you know what else happened in 1966? Why, the Saints were foudned on All Saints Day 1966.Did you know that the league has been a non-profit organization since 1966, when the NFL merged with the American Football League, and then-commissioner Pete Rozelle folded in the request for an exemption with the request for an anti-trust exemption?
oops, wrote something dumbThe NFL its self doesnt pay taxes, the individual teams do.
still messed up, any and all profits just goto goodell and other execs?
Which is why the comments to the first article in 2013 (and the outrage over the status) are kinda funny.Faust said:NFL ends tax exempt status after 73 years: 3 things to know
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25166258/nfl-ends-tax-exempt-status-after-73-years-3-things-to-know
Of course it was ill-informed. Sadly, most outrage these days seems to be.Which is why the comments to the first article in 2013 (and the outrage over the status) are kinda funny.Faust said:NFL ends tax exempt status after 73 years: 3 things to know
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25166258/nfl-ends-tax-exempt-status-after-73-years-3-things-to-know
The outrage over the status is what the NFL wants to avoid, but yet nothing is really going to change.
Well, if that's true, what does that say about all the outrage? It was ill-informed, maybe?
Of course, maybe there isn't much outrage to begin with if this thread has less than 20 posts.