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Depending on when a player was actively suiting up every weekend, his pay was relative to that time period.
In the 1950'sNFL players had real jobs during the week and played in the NFL during the weekends and every player made between $2000 nd $8000 a game. Considering that the average guy working for a living was making about $35-$50 a week $5000 was a huge amount of money. You could buy a Cadillac for $2000 and you could buy a three bedroom house for $5000. Things remained pretty much in place as football expanded and a new league started competing with the old one. Finally a guy named Joe namasth cracked an unheard of amount of money and got $100,000 a year from the NY Jets and the owners had to start payng more money.
Television was still restricted to CBS.
By 1965 the salary competition grew and teams decided that if they were going to pay people $50K to $100K a year, then they better be staying in shape. Then NBC stepped up and signed a huge Mega deal with the AFL and the race was on. Finally in 1970 cooler heads prevailed and Lamar Hunt called the AFL owners together and presented an idea and the new NFL was born.
Some players were smart and invested their money and made fortunes from letting financial experts invest and control all of the money that would normally sit ina savings accpount and pick up minimal interest. Others thought that they would play football until they were 65 and spent every check like there was no tomorrow.
Now, Eric Dickerson wants some of the millions that today's players are getting and wants the NFL to share revenue with members of the Hall of Fame. Especilly players who have a "NAME".
Hey Eric, sounds like you think that your "name" is worth more today than when you polayed and since you retired 25 years ago, around 1995, the landscape has changed you think that your name is worth a couple of million a year.
What about those guys who made the holes that you ran through and made it possible for 'you' to have that "name" that you think is so valuable? Don't you think that those guys deserve as much, if not, more than you do? Hey, they made you who you were.
You were making top dollar at the time. Did you invest anything? Or did you have a bunch of homies hanging around sucking you dry?
NFL Headlines
Eric Dickerson says Hall of Famers “with names” may boycott Hall of Fame festivities
CBS Sports | Jul 20
The Pro Football Hall of Fame will enshrine its eight newest members on Aug. 3 in Canton, Ohio. But Eric Dickerson, who was inducted 20 years ago, said this week that he and others may boycott the induction festivities until the NFL meets the demands Dickerson and a group of Hall of Famers spelled out in a letter last year to league commissioner Roger Goodell, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith, and Pro Football Hall of Fame president David Baker.
Namely: health insurance, an annual salary for Hall of Famers and a share of NFL revenues.
"A lot of guys have talked about it, but you know we [may] try to start doing something about it," Dickerson said Friday during an appearance on WFNZ in Charlotte, via Pro Football Talk. "One of the things we're doing I mean is we're possibly a lot of us not going to the Hall of Fame this year. Because I think it starts was guys like myself, guys with names. You know, the Joe Montanas, the Marcus Allens, the Richard Dents, the Lawrence Taylors.
"If you've got a guy who played [and] his name is John Thompson, you know, who is he? But you've got the guys with the names, and you have to have awareness. And I think that's what it comes down to. No one is aware of how badly the players are treated and done. And I think when people think football, they think automatically, 'He's a rich guy. He's rich.' And guys aren't rich. Some of the guys are making real money, but in our era, the base salary was $40,000."
Dickerson told TMZ last September what he thought every player deserved.
In the 1950'sNFL players had real jobs during the week and played in the NFL during the weekends and every player made between $2000 nd $8000 a game. Considering that the average guy working for a living was making about $35-$50 a week $5000 was a huge amount of money. You could buy a Cadillac for $2000 and you could buy a three bedroom house for $5000. Things remained pretty much in place as football expanded and a new league started competing with the old one. Finally a guy named Joe namasth cracked an unheard of amount of money and got $100,000 a year from the NY Jets and the owners had to start payng more money.
Television was still restricted to CBS.
By 1965 the salary competition grew and teams decided that if they were going to pay people $50K to $100K a year, then they better be staying in shape. Then NBC stepped up and signed a huge Mega deal with the AFL and the race was on. Finally in 1970 cooler heads prevailed and Lamar Hunt called the AFL owners together and presented an idea and the new NFL was born.
Some players were smart and invested their money and made fortunes from letting financial experts invest and control all of the money that would normally sit ina savings accpount and pick up minimal interest. Others thought that they would play football until they were 65 and spent every check like there was no tomorrow.
Now, Eric Dickerson wants some of the millions that today's players are getting and wants the NFL to share revenue with members of the Hall of Fame. Especilly players who have a "NAME".
Hey Eric, sounds like you think that your "name" is worth more today than when you polayed and since you retired 25 years ago, around 1995, the landscape has changed you think that your name is worth a couple of million a year.
What about those guys who made the holes that you ran through and made it possible for 'you' to have that "name" that you think is so valuable? Don't you think that those guys deserve as much, if not, more than you do? Hey, they made you who you were.
You were making top dollar at the time. Did you invest anything? Or did you have a bunch of homies hanging around sucking you dry?
NFL Headlines
Eric Dickerson says Hall of Famers “with names” may boycott Hall of Fame festivities
CBS Sports | Jul 20
The Pro Football Hall of Fame will enshrine its eight newest members on Aug. 3 in Canton, Ohio. But Eric Dickerson, who was inducted 20 years ago, said this week that he and others may boycott the induction festivities until the NFL meets the demands Dickerson and a group of Hall of Famers spelled out in a letter last year to league commissioner Roger Goodell, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith, and Pro Football Hall of Fame president David Baker.
Namely: health insurance, an annual salary for Hall of Famers and a share of NFL revenues.
"A lot of guys have talked about it, but you know we [may] try to start doing something about it," Dickerson said Friday during an appearance on WFNZ in Charlotte, via Pro Football Talk. "One of the things we're doing I mean is we're possibly a lot of us not going to the Hall of Fame this year. Because I think it starts was guys like myself, guys with names. You know, the Joe Montanas, the Marcus Allens, the Richard Dents, the Lawrence Taylors.
"If you've got a guy who played [and] his name is John Thompson, you know, who is he? But you've got the guys with the names, and you have to have awareness. And I think that's what it comes down to. No one is aware of how badly the players are treated and done. And I think when people think football, they think automatically, 'He's a rich guy. He's rich.' And guys aren't rich. Some of the guys are making real money, but in our era, the base salary was $40,000."
Dickerson told TMZ last September what he thought every player deserved.
