Not really. All you need to understand is that the league office is a trade association, it gets money from the members of the trade, money it then uses to increase their revenue. But it doesn’t make any money itself. People hear “the NFL is tax exempt” and think that means the league as a whole pays no taxes, but it’s JUST the office that manages the league that’s exempt. All the revenue comes to the teams (often via deal MADE by the league) and they pay plenty of taxes. It’s really pretty simple, but slightly more complicated than the average outrage junky likes to bother with.
Hey now, don't be bringing facts and logic into this!
It's issues like this that really show how even posters on Free Republic (you know, the conservative, free market website) have simplistic, faux-populist - dare I say, "left wing" - economic outlooks.