NEW YORK (AP) -In a story Sept. 3, The Associated Press reported on preliminary discussions about a new NFL collective bargaining agreement. The story referred to total revenues brought into the NFL after 2006, based on information released by the league. The story should have referred to new revenues brought into the NFL after 2006.
According to additional details provided by the NFL, players have received about 75 percent of new revenues generated by the league since 2006 in order to meet requirements of the collective bargaining agreement negotiated that year. That agreement called for the players’ share of selected revenues to rise from approximately 55 percent to roughly 60 percent. To get to that percentage, players received 75 cents out of every dollar of additional revenue the NFL attracted, the league says.
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