I saw a one-sentence reference to the Joint Contribution Credit in a news article that I read about two months ago, but didn’t understand what it was when I read it. I thought, from the wording of the article, that it was a one-off contribution that the NFLPA had agreed to.
In fact, the Joint Contribution Credit is a reference to a large chunk of money that the owners and players jointly contribute to a beneficial fund every year. I learned this by reading about it in Crunching Numbers.
It was a surprise to me that this contribution even existed, and it embarrassed me to learn about it because I had recently written an idea into an article suggesting that the player’s union initiate a program that has already been in place since 2012, and which is funded at a pretty significant level, and growing every year.