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NFL Teams Need to Open the Books and Show Players (and Taxpayers) the Money

Related Topics: Rob Reischel, OpenTheBooks, Money

Remember playing "lemonade stand" as a kid?

You and your friends/siblings dragged a card table to the sidewalk, made signs, harassed passers-by and (mostly) drank the lemonade your parents made for you. After an afternoon of hard work—or 45 minutes if you are honest about how quickly you got hot and bored—you were proud to earn about four bucks. And unless your parents were hardcore capitalists, they never mentioned that they provided $3.99 worth of sugar, lemons and cups.

NFL teams are a lot like 32 lemonade stands on 32 corners around the country. Except when your parents show up with a pitcher, there's $256 million inside of it.