I have a question too. They are getting 8 from cbs and fox + 3.5 from direct tv say get 2 or 3 from abc/espn totaling around 14 billion dollars. What does the NFL do with all the billions of dollars they are getting? I know the teams get some of it. But I am just curious how it is devided up or where it goes.

[QUOTE=Riggo44]But I think the flex schedule idea sucks. Ever year for the past 5 years I have been flying out to at least 1 or 2 Redskins games. So ever year when the schedules comes out me and me friends plan out or trips.
If I got airline tickets and a hotel lined up for a certain sunday I would be pretty pissed off if they changed the game to a monday or thursday. How would anyone plan there trips? I count on those schedules. Could you tell someone to come visit for the weekend and go to a game? No they would have to wait untill the last minute to know the game was going to be played on sunday.
I for one don't like the idea.[/QUOTE]

I think you bring up a good point. Also, what about the teams themselves? If you suddenly have a Sunday game switched to Monday night game that changes your game planning for the week and more importantly for the following week.

Also, I guess I'm still not clear on this-would this mean two games on Monday night? So for example, could a game that should have been on CBS 4pm Sunday be moved to Monday night? What does that mean for CBS's schedule then? Are they given another game in that same time slot or do they have to find some filler? I imagine they'd just air another game right?

[QUOTE=Skins fan 44]I have a question too. They are getting 8 from cbs and fox + 3.5 from direct tv say get 2 or 3 from abc/espn totaling around 14 billion dollars. What does the NFL do with all the billions of dollars they are getting? I know the teams get some of it. But I am just curious how it is devided up or where it goes.[/QUOTE]

They split the TV revenue evenly amongst all teams. Gate receipts and other revenues are split 60/40 between the home team and visiting team.

If only baseball used the same system... :(

or nascar... all the league sponsorships and tv revenue go straight to nascar and not to teams, meaning every team needs to raise its own 20$mill a year or whatever... the NFL has really done a lot of things right...