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Originally Posted by Couch-Potato
In reality, NFL players make less money than baseball and basketball players primarily because baseball and basketball have smaller rosters. The players’ percentage of the league’s revenue is similar in all three sports, but in the NFL that money is divided among a much larger pool of players — more than twice as many players as in Major League Baseball and more than four times as many players as in the National Basketball Association.
As a result, it’s unlikely that NFL players will ever make as much, on average, as MLB or NBA players. No matter how much Beckham thinks they should.
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I think this is key when comparing the different leagues. The amount of money spent on players total per team is probably somewhat close but when you have so many more players to pay, they each will get less. Simple math at that point.