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Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar
What's your take on Salary Cap gate?
Bronco fans swear it gave them zero competitive advantage.
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Well Pat Bowlen claimed they gained no advantage, but the league said otherwise they were fined and lost a draft pick for doing it.
The Broncos have been fined $950,000 and will lose a third-round selection in next year's draft for circumventing the salary cap between 1996 and '98. The penalties were set in an agreement between the league, the Players Association and the Broncos and resolve a case against the team brought before the sport's special master by the NFL's Management Council in January 2003, the league announced.
The penalties could be viewed as further vindication for Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis, who has said in the past that Broncos owner Pat Bowlen should be suspended for salary cap violations. Davis has contended that the Broncos' circumvention of the salary cap helped them win the Super Bowl in the 1997 and '98 seasons.
Bowlen said in a written statement released Thursday by the Broncos that the club gained no competitive advantage from these cap violations.