What does it mean when an NFL team designates someone as their franchise player?
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it means the player would have been a free agent, but the team "taged" him as a franchise player.  They have to pay him the average of the top 5 contracts in the league at his position or 20% of his previous years contract.  Whichever is higher.  He is under contract for only the next year.  The team still can work out a long term deal to keep him longer.
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huh?  You mean of a business you already have? A franchise means an offshoot of an existing business, like you can buy a McDonalds or Quizno's Or Kinko's franchise.
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National Institute doesn't necessarily mean it's government. The NBA (National Basketball Association), and the NFL (National Football League) which are both public commercial groups. "National" just means that it's open to everybody in the national, or it's nationwide (it's throughout the entire nation), and they can't just say "no" to somebody because they feel like it. If Alaska wanted to have a football team, assuming they meet the requirements, the NFL would have to accept them in if there is no other reasons to deny them. Only a very few times will that mean it's govt. stuff, and even then it's doubtful, because they will most likely use the word Federal, such as in FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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http://football.about.com/cs/football101/a/franchisetransi.htm\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restricted_free_agent\n\nhere are some sites with info. Hope this helps!
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Each city puts in a bid to the NFL to host a future Superbowl. The list plans for where the game will be, security, improvments, city life, how the city economy will be affected. ect. Then, when a certain time has elapsed, the NFL commission chooses a place,and thats it, theres a superbowl
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It means that a team can resign that player for the average of the top 10 player salaries at that position.1 year contract and the money is not guarenteed untill the 1st game of the regular season.
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It's a added pick at the end of a round that is added when teams lose players to free agency.  Technically it is after the end of the round and before the beginning of the next round, however they are usually considered additional picks at the end of the earlier round.
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A free agent is a player whose contract has expired and is eligible to sign with another team. A restricted free agent is a player for whom another team can make an offer, but his current team is allowed to match that offer. If the current team chooses not to match the offer, it may receive compensation in the form of a draft choice. The NFL awards compensatory picks based on the net loss of restricted free agents. The limit for compensatory picks is four per team. \n\nThe supplemental draft is held after the draft and its more like a auction teams bid for players using the following year's draft pick. if you believe a player is 1st round material in the supplemental draft you bid your 1st rd pick from next year and if you win the player you lose the spot you picked that player at for the following year's draft. The NY Giants did this years ago with Dave Brown. They used a 1st Rd pick in the Supplemental Draft to select hom and did not have a 1st RD pick in the regular draft the following season.
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well, you call/write/text the players.  you try and sell your program to them, explaining why your team is good, why they will fit in.  you sell what you have, if you aren't such a great team, you sell a shot at early playing time, if you're really good, you sell the idea of being a part of a title contender and contributing to a winning program
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Free agency is a human/workers right the in USA.  Was not started by football players, and no one person has been given credit for it.  The term began to be used in in the NFL in 1992/93 season, when the players were able to collectively get it into a collective bargaining agreement with the club owners.  Anyone not drafted, or under contract is considered a free agent, there are two types restricted and un-restricted.  Here is a link that describes it in some detail.
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basically it's just a measure of how much activity there is involving a player (trades, adds from free agency, drops, etc.).
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In late summer, the NFL also holds a Supplemental Draft to accommodate players who did not enter the regular draft because they thought they still had academic eligibility to play college football. The supplemental draft maintains the same team order from the regular draft, with the team with the worst record in the previous season picking first. However, in the supplemental draft, a team is not required to use any picks. Instead, if a team wants a player in the supplemental draft, they submit a "bid" to the Commissioner with the round they would pick that player. If no other team places a bid on that player at an earlier spot, the team is awarded the player and has to give up an equivalent pick in the following year's draft. (For example, RB Tony Hollings was taken by the Houston Texans in the second round of the Supplemental Draft in 2003. Thus in the 2004 NFL Draft, the Texans forfeited a second-round pick).\n\nThe 1985 Supplemental Draft was particularly controversial. Bernie Kosar of the University of Miami earned his academic degree a year early but did not enter the regular draft that year. Rather than finish his eligibility at Miami, he entered into talks with his hometown Cleveland Browns, who advised him to delay his professional eligibility until after the regular draft. They then traded for the right to choose first in the Supplemental Draft. This angered many clubs, notably the Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants, who had expressed interest in choosing him in that season's regular draft. Many of today's Supplemental Draft rules aim at preventing a reoccurrence of this incident.\n\nAs of 2006, players who enter the Supplemental Draft usually are graded as players who should be drafted at a later round, or who have college eligibility problems (poor academic or discipline issues). Only 32 players have been taken in the past 26 Supplemental Drafts.
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It means the team they were playing for in the arena league didn't think they were quite ready or good enough to be on the team.  Players get reassigned to get better against players more on their skill level to improve enough to play with the AFL teams.
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You get into a league with a few of your friends. You each make your "team" full of players on real NFL teams. The players on your team don't play together in real life. You get points based on their real life stats. If you have Peyton Manning and he throws 4 TDs in real life, then you get his stats. The team with the best stats wins.
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Basically, it means that whomever has the higher waiver priority will get the player claimed off waivers (the period of time one must wait for the player to be added to your team) than one who has a lower waiver priority.  If you have waiver priority two, for example, and another team has a waiver priority five, and you both want to add the same player to your team, then you'd get the player and not the other team.\n\nYour league ranking should be right on the front page of the league itself.  But if you want to see how your league compares to other leagues, I'm not exactly sure how one would do that, because you really can't compare different leagues, anyway, especially if the league you're in is a private league.
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In football, a player in a position can choose from a set of numbers designated to their position.  \nAll sports: Rookies sometimes don't get the numbers they want because they are already taken by someone else on the team, and some teams retire the numbers of great players and nobody can ever wear the number on that team.
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As it is confusing if there are people on the same team with two names or two different teams with same name players. They also do that to carry family pride.