NFL for National Future Security

No, I’m not about to bore you with some crazy idea about NFL players forming some elite security network for the United States. Although the idea of an elite security force made up of athletes is intriguing. And it would make for a good movie to compete with the ever popular comic book heroes.

I’d like to take a quick look at how much money flows through the NFL into players hands. There are 32 teams in the NFL. The present salary cap per team is $177,200,000. That means $5,670,400,000 can be paid to the players every year. Each team has 53 players plus a practice squad of 10 players for a total of 2016 players. In plain numbers that would put the annual player salary at $2,812,698 per player if the money was evenly divided. Almost $3,000,000 doesn’t sound like much these days, but that is pay per year.

Lets look at this from an investment aspect. If the US has 2000 people investing over $2,000,000 per year into new businesses, what effect would that have on the economy over a number of years? Bear with me here. Back in the 1960’s NFL players were paid a lot less money. The average salary was around $25,000 per year. Not enough to retire on. Those players were known for investing the money they had into small businesses. Popular investments back in those days were restaurants, taverns, sport shops, some invested in publications, and a variety of other businesses.

Today many players earn more than enough money to retire on without every having to worry about a future income. What do they invest in? Some the stock market, some still invest in small companies. What about the rest? I don’t know.

NFL for National Future Security: What would you do if you had $6,000,000, your whole life in front of you, the education, know how, and confidence to succeed?

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