NFL's Non-Profit Status

Deus Irae said:

So was Goodell's insistence on using the morals clause to serve as a second judge of every crime, but that didn't get his trifling ass fired. The damage control's been done, and the media has already begun spinning the situation in such a way as to keep Goodell out of most of it. Goodell will probably survive this.

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Rob0729 said:

Well, if the league didn't have non-profit status, teams would get taxed twice. Almost all revenue streams for the NFL go through the league office. So it would be taxed at the league level. When they dispersed the money to each team, it would get taxed again.

If the league ever loses its non-profit status, it would destroy the league. It would force teams to make their own TV deals and marketing deals and there would be big market and small market teams like it is in MLB.

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rlcarr said:

No it wouldn't. The teams would just form a non-taxed, pass-through entity like a partnership or LLC-that-elects-to-be-taxed-as-a-partnership that each team would own 1/32nd of and the contracts would be re-drafted to have that new entity take the place of the existing NFL 501(c)(6).

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