It tends to bother me when poorly informed fans or sports writers mention the fact that the Redskins spend sooo much money; occasionally they even liken us to the highest payroll team in America, the Yankees.
Some quick facts to bring up when you hear some moron making this 'argument'
1. In the NFL, there is a hard salary cap, meaning all teams can 'only' spend 116,729,000 per year on Player Salaries. Even though teams like though the Skins and Giants play in large, affluent markets and thus generate much more revenue than small market teams (such as the Cincinnati Bengals) we have the same limit to how much we can pay our players.
The MLB has no such cap which makes it all the more impressive when a small payroll team like the Rays ($44M) reach the World Series and win more games than the much higher salaried Yanks ($209M) and Sox ($133M).
2. The Redskins are noticeably absent from the following list; meaning we do not employ a single player in the top 20 highest paid players.
Bottom line: there exists a difference between what a team earns (revenue) and what they spend on player's (payroll expense). Please do not confuse the two when talking about teams subject to a hard salary cap (see addition reading for more salary cap goodness).
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