[Alberta's Child]

After doing some further research, I've figured that we're not dealing with the same measure of "thirds." My original post was incorrect because I lumped all of the team revenue into a single denominator when I computed the thirds. I believe the NFL's television contracts represent about a third of a team's total revenue, but is the vast majority of what a team gets in league revenue. A lot of the revenue sources I listed go right to the team. All television and licensing revenue comes through the NFL, while the NFL has some oversight of ticket revenue (under the sharing agreements between home/away teams) as well.

[discostu]

That seems right. Most of the money that comes directly from fans goes directly to teams, but there is that big fat wad of money that’s mostly TV that goes to the league first then gets divied up.