The team payroll was $259,000, including coaches and trainers.

Owners wanted to create a hard cap for team payroll.

The Jets had a team payroll of $24.8 million last season.

The union proposed a luxury tax beginning at team payrolls of $45 million.

In addition, the team payroll skyrocketed to over $100 million.

The league wants to hold individual team payrolls to $42 million and allow the players no more than 55 percent of league revenue.

Under the provisions of the cap, team payrolls was limited to €8 million.

He immediately poured some of his wealth into the team payroll.

According to figures the league has provided to the union, the average team payroll last season was $14.16 million.

The team payroll in 1980, the year the current ownership took control, was $1.3 million.