When a team relocates do the players get anything?

[chasa]

The rams moved last season, the chargers are heading north, the raiders are heading to las vegas.

When a team relocates do the players get any sort of moving per diem?

I'm guessing a good number of these guys have purchased homes, for the top end guys it might not be a big deal, but for the lower end guys that's gotta be pretty brutal.

Anyone know if they get any sort of moving assistance?

 

[signbabybrady]

Ha

 

[FrodoBagginz]

If players are traded, released and sign with another team, etc. they don't get moving help so they probably don't when a team relocates.

 

[WinstonSmith]

As you all know, first prize of the relocation contest is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anybody want to see second prize? Second prize's a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. You get the picture?

 

[tasmlab]

Even if a player is a practice squad guy, I think he's still a 23 years old making $80K or more per year. Can't be more of a hardship than it would be for 75% of America's average families to deal with.

 

[jboston19]

In the Raiders case, they're going from one of the highest income taxes in the country to a city without it.

Oh, from the NFL itself? Heh. Nope.

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

Rams required to pay players' relocation expenses for L.A. move

>>>>Also, according to Article 36 of the collective bargaining agreement, a team that moves is required to pay players' relocation expenses. So Rams players will have their moving costs taken care of. The CBA specifically says players who "establish permanent residence" in the new city prior to the first regular-season game are eligible for the paid moving expenses, but Atallah said the standard for that was basically that you need to have U.S. mail delivered to your address in the new town, and the union is not concerned about moving expenses being an issue.<<<<<<<
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For those who refuse to click on ESPN links...

https://nfllabor.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/collective-bargaining-agreement-2011-2020.pdf

Section 3. Travel Expenses: Any veteran player who is traded or claimed at any time during a League Year, or any rookie player who is traded or claimed after the start of the regular season and subsequently makes the Active List of the Club to which he is traded or by which he is claimed, will receive, upon presentation of vouchers: (a) first class round trip air fare for his wife or the equivalent in cash if she makes the trip by another mode of transportation; (b) a sum not to exceed two months’ rent or mortgage payments for living quarters in the home city from which the player is traded or by which he is waived, provided, however, that such payment shall be made only if and to the extent that the player is legally obligated to make such rent or mortgage payments and the total of such payments shall not exceed $6350 for the 2011–12 League Years, $6650 for the 2013–14 League Years, $6950 for the 2015–16 League Years, $7250 for the 2017–18 League Years, and $7550 for the 2019–20 League Years; and (c) the room cost of seven days’ stay at a hotel of the Club’s choice in the new team city for the player.

 

[jah]

They get to find a new apartment.

 

[PlanB]

I think moving expenses may be tax deductible ??

 

[Chevy]

A roster of local realtors?

 

[archstanton543]

They get to not live and play in the Oakland area. That should be incentive enough. And they're moving from a state with a wicked high income tax to a state without one.

 

[FreeTedWilliams]

I think moving expenses may be tax deductible ??

They are, but if you get compensated for moving expenses then they are taxable, as earnings