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> You will need billions of dollars to pay Patrick Mahomes $500M a year to switch sides. You are off on his salary by an order of magnitude. ;) He’s also the

> You will need billions of dollars to pay Patrick Mahomes $500M a year to switch sides. You are off on his salary by an order of magnitude. ;) He’s also the number one paid NFL player, so extending his salary to the entire roster is just hyperbolic fiction.

jrockway 3y ago
Well, I don't think "you can be the headline in our new league for your current salary" is going to work. He has to break a contract. He's burned his bridges with the NFL. That's going to require compensation. Yes, you don't pay your backup defensive linemen the same as your quarterback, but the point is, people won't watch if those players are bad, and people aren't going to jump ship for free. You will have to build the league out of talent that somehow won't play for the NFL. It's going to be costly.
- jsjohnst 3y ago
  In the fan fiction land of make believe you’ve laid out here already, can’t we make the suspension of disbelief go just a tad further? Maybe every fan gets paid $1M per game they attend?
  - jrockway 3y ago
    Well, how much do you think it will cost then?
    - jsjohnst 3y ago
      Well, considering the total cap for all players on both teams playing in the Super Bowl is less than the amount you think should be paid to a single person, there’s a start. ;)
      - jrockway 3y ago
        Yeah, but people want the big names, and the big names already have guaranteed income. You have to make a higher offer. I've decided I'm kind of "meh" on the whole salary cap thing. I want to see some star defensive linemen play. I want to see a $10M/year punter. Let's go CRAZY with this new league.
        jsjohnst 3y ago
        > I want to see a $10M/year punter. Michael Dickson wasn’t far off from that in the NFL in recent history. I’m not even remotely a sports guy and yet I knew this. > the big names already have guaranteed income Actually, many don’t. Even Mahomes has so little guaranteed I’m more than sure you could sway him to your fantasy fiction league for less than half the figure you listed as guaranteed income.

jrockway 3y ago

Well, I don't think "you can be the headline in our new league for your current salary" is going to work. He has to break a contract. He's burned his bridges with the NFL. That's going to require compensation. Yes, you don't pay your backup defensive linemen the same as your quarterback, but the point is, people won't watch if those players are bad, and people aren't going to jump ship for free. You will have to build the league out of talent that somehow won't play for the NFL. It's going to be costly.

jsjohnst 3y ago
In the fan fiction land of make believe you’ve laid out here already, can’t we make the suspension of disbelief go just a tad further? Maybe every fan gets paid $1M per game they attend?
- jrockway 3y ago
  Well, how much do you think it will cost then?
  - jsjohnst 3y ago
    Well, considering the total cap for all players on both teams playing in the Super Bowl is less than the amount you think should be paid to a single person, there’s a start. ;)
    - jrockway 3y ago
      Yeah, but people want the big names, and the big names already have guaranteed income. You have to make a higher offer. I've decided I'm kind of "meh" on the whole salary cap thing. I want to see some star defensive linemen play. I want to see a $10M/year punter. Let's go CRAZY with this new league.
      - jsjohnst 3y ago
        > I want to see a $10M/year punter. Michael Dickson wasn’t far off from that in the NFL in recent history. I’m not even remotely a sports guy and yet I knew this. > the big names already have guaranteed income Actually, many don’t. Even Mahomes has so little guaranteed I’m more than sure you could sway him to your fantasy fiction league for less than half the figure you listed as guaranteed income.