Salary Cap Analysis

[DCopper04]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

It's expensive enough to make it to a football game and some of those salaries are no where near the level of professional baseball. I couldn't imagine the contracts. It might seem cool in the long-term and for the people who watch it on TV, but I try my hardest to make it to at least 3-4 Skins games a year and I don't want to spend 200 bucks a ticket to make it.

This is a valid point, and I'm sure a lot of people are turned away from football games due to the already pricey tickets. But in reality, tickets cost much less right now than they should. The Skins have a waiting list of thousands of people wanting to get tickets. If Snyder charged the true market value, and eliminated the waiting list, tickets could probably be 3 times more expensive, and FedEx would still sell out every night. You could realistically say that right now we are spoiled by being able to get tickets far below their true value. If the cap goes away, ticket prices would definitely increase, but we shouldn't be unhappy that tickets would become more expensive, we should be happy that tickets remained (relatively) inexpensive for so long.