‘Buffalo has been able to keep its football team, even as its home region lost hundreds of companies and hundreds of thousands of jobs over the last few decades, because of the NFL’s remarkably just revenue-sharing philosophy. Equal distribution of the league’s television contracts and a simple split of ticket sales have long guaranteed each team a profit before the first ticket is sold. While the setup kept old-guard owners like Wilson quite content, new corporate sharks like Jerry Jones of Dallas and Washington’s Dan Snyder found loopholes in the old system, converting suite sales and corporate sponsorships into massive war chests that enable them to afford immense signing bonuses for players and above-market salaries for coaches that the Bills and Bengals of the world can’t match and remain profitable.’