Will the expansion fee be $75 million - or more?

With their blessing he sold his franchise for slightly less than the $6 million expansion fee.

It suggested part of future expansion fees could take the place of the tax money.

Those expansion fees have now ceased, but the players must still be paid.

"We asked for information on how they determine the expansion fees."

Announced to begin play for the 1998 season, each ownership group paid a $130 million expansion fee to enter the league.

Ottawa and Tampa were admitted instead; both groups had agreed to pay the expansion fee.

Some are unhappy with the way he divided up $190 million in expansion fees between the two leagues.

Only six years ago, Jacksonville and Carolina paid $140 million expansion fees.

Dividing expansion fees of $120 million or more per team would be one way to recoup lost revenue.