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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Gate receipts are 33% of total league revenues so it is not nothing, definitely something to think about. If you had a corresponding reduction in your salaries, which would naturally follow during a rebuild it may be a wash.
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It's not close to a wash.
League wide gate receipts are close to 1/3. I suspect CGY would be higher.
Also, gate receipts correlate to suites, concessions, parking, local sponsorships, jerseys, etc. $200 sweaters and $12 beers do a poop tonne more for profits than a $100 ticket.
And of course playoff revenues are the real gravy, which are near zero for 5-10 years in a full tear down.
The flames could shed at most 10 or 20M in salaries (less if they are buying bad contracts for picks) but easily lose 25-50M in revenues every year. Unless revenues are already bottomed out the math is inevitably bad.