The license fee isn’t being paid back by ffa. What a load of bollocks. Their cap will be funded just like all teams. Is that what janakin means?  So many figures in this article but complete bs. Where are his sources?  He doesn’t even explain himself and what he’s talking about.  No wonder no one buys this mag if this is the standard of journalism 

The deal (which was reported at the time but as usual, with varying explanations in different papers) was that the two expansion teams would buy their licence but would not receive a distribution from the tv deal. Instead they would effectively “get their money back” through a separate distribution. 

This had the advantage of not diluting the distribution to the existing ten teams (vital as it’s rumoured Fox were dragging their heals on paying the increase for expansion) and it prevented the State Feds grabbing the money in a distribution of their own.