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Originally Posted by RedinTexas
One thing that plays a part is guaranteed contracts. When the team has to guarantee a contract for a big money player, they don't get to just live on the promise. The team actually has to put that money into escrow so that if the owner goes bankrupt, the player still gets paid. In the modern age of enormous contracts for quarterbacks and some other players, that amounts to a lot of cash. Therefore, owners that are not very liquid have more trouble signing players to long term contracts than cash rich owners.
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Yep. That's a discussion i've been having today with a couple other Bengals fans on my home board.
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