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EACH NFL team received $255.9 million in national revenue. That includes the national TV deals, road-game revenue sharing, and various other national revenue. According to multiple reports, most of the money in the national revenue comes from the TV deals.

Effectively, EVERY NFL owner gets a check for a quarter billion dollars before a single football game is played.

The premise about the vast divide between "big market" and "small market" teams, in spite of this revenue sharing, does not hold up to close scrutiny. The NFL's revenue-sharing coupled with the league's hard salary cap promotes substantial competitiveness with 22 of the 32 teams making the playoffs over the past five seasons alone including teams from the lower population areas like New Orleans, Green Bay, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and Cincinnati.