National Football League
The National Football League appears in How we got free agents in baseball as a comparison case for the spread and limits of professional-sports free agency. The source says similar challenges were happening in football after [[CurtFlood|Curt Flood]]’s baseball case, but that NFL free agency remained more limited until the 1990s.
The NFL also supplies the episode’s salary-cap comparison: unlike [[MajorLeagueBaseball|Major League Baseball]], the NFL uses a salary cap while still allocating around half of revenue to player salaries, according to the source.
Connections
- Major League Baseball and [[NationalBasketballAssociation|NBA]] - comparison leagues in the episode.
- Baseball Free Agency, Sports Collective Bargaining, Sports Labor Revenue Sharing, and Sports Competitive Balance - sports-labor concepts.