He declined to specify what share of league revenue he thought should be paid to players.

As for income, the lion's share of league revenues come from television.

The luxury tax threshold is 61.1 percent of league revenue.

The players were promised that their salaries would equal 55 percent of league revenues over the agreement's final three seasons.

The league wants to hold individual team payrolls to $42 million and allow the players no more than 55 percent of league revenue.

One contained a system in which player salaries were linked to league revenue, and the other did not.

They opposed a link between league revenue and salaries.

The total league revenue from the package will be about $1.42 billion.

In the four years of the agreement's duration, league revenues doubled and the average player salary went from $240,000 a year to more than $500,000.

The players also prevented the owners from knocking them down to 42 percent of league revenues, with a decreasing percentage each year.