
This is huge. The NFL announced that it has reached an agreement with YouTube TV to carry its popular “Sunday Ticket” package carrying out-of-market games, bringing in more than $2 billion per year to the league’s coffers over the next seven years. The service has been with DirecTV since 1994 but will move to the YouTube TV streaming platform in 2023.
And that’s great news for big spenders like the New Orleans Saints. Few teams invest as many resources against the salary cap as the Saints do each year by restructuring contracts and paying out hefty signing bonuses. The higher the salary cap goes, the better for them.