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3/16/99
748 PLAYERS SHARE RECORD $26.3 MILLION ’98
POSTSEASON EARNINGS
A total of $26.3 million – the largest NFL postseason pool ever – will be divided among 748 players who participated in the 1998 postseason, the National Football League announced today.
The Super Bowl Champion Denver Broncos each earned $100,500 per full share for the playoffs, not counting the Pro Bowl.
Each player for the Atlanta Falcons, the NFC champion, earned $80,000 per full share in the playoffs.
Denver’s postseason pool totaled more than $5.6 million, while Atlanta’s payout was $4.5 million.
The total postseason pool for all teams was $26,332,000.
Fourteen Super Bowl XXXIII players increased their postseason earnings by playing in the 1999 AFC-NFC Pro Bowl. Eight members of the Broncos – STEVE ATWATER, JASON ELAM, JOHN ELWAY, TONY JONES, ED MC CAFFREY, TOM NALEN, BILL ROMANOWSKI and MARK SCHLERETH – each earned an additional $25,000 for playing on the victorious AFC team to total $125,500 in postseason monies. Six Falcons – JAMAL ANDERSON, RAY BUCHANAN, CHRIS CHANDLER, EUGENE ROBINSON, JESSIE TUGGLE and BOB WHITFIELD – increased their earnings by $12,500 apiece to $92,500 by playing for the NFC squad.
1998 NFL POSTSEASON COMPENSATION
| AFC | PLAYER SHARES | TOTAL |
| Denver | 54 |
$5,627,000 |
| N.Y. Jets | 58 |
2,840,000 |
| Jacksonville | 68 |
2,090,000 |
| Miami | 64 |
1,590,000 |
| New England | 61 |
685,000 |
| Buffalo | 56 |
710,000 |
| NFC | PLAYER SHARES |
TOTAL |
| Atlanta | 56 |
$4,522,500 |
| Minnesota | 60 |
2,962,500 |
| Arizona | 62 |
1,562,500 |
| San Francisco | 57 |
1,460,000 |
| Dallas | 59 |
960,000 |
| Green Bay | 61 |
672,500 |
| PLAYOFF TOTALS | 716 |
25,682,000 |
| AFC-NFC PRO BOWL | PLAYER SHARES |
TOTAL |
32 * |
$650,000 |
|
| * Non-playoff players | ||
| TOTALS | 748 |
$26,332,000 |