Super Bowl LX: (2) Patriots vs. (1) Seahawks

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Seahawks’ Sam Darnold Lost Money While Winning Super Bowl LX

According to former NFL QB Boomer Esiason, who now hosts a morning talk show on WFAN Sports Radio, Boomer and Gio, Darnold lost money playing in this year’s big game.

As a result of California’s jock tax, a local income tax that impacts visiting professional athletes, Darnold had to pay the state of California nearly a quarter of a million dollars to perform under the bright lights in Santa Clara.

“For winning the Super Bowl, the winning team, each player gets $178,000—in other words, the Super Bowl isn’t a part of their salary,” said Esiason on Monday’s show. “And they look at duty days. So, each spends seven days in the state of California. So those are seven duty days, and they pierce your regular salary at 3.5%. So, he has to pay—when you take into account, he got the $178,000 plus his overall salary, he has to pay the state of California for spending seven days there $249,000.”

So, if you do the math, Darnold paid $71,000 to play in Super Bowl LX. Now, that’s one heck of a day at the office.
 

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It's false though

I think part of the failure is due to conflating his contact bonus for winning the SB and related taxes to just the usual SB player bonus, part taking his entire income and applying the jock tax to it rather than scaling it to just income that could be tied to be earned in CA and part simple minded CA bashing
 

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Seahawks’ Sam Darnold Lost Money While Winning Super Bowl LX

According to former NFL QB Boomer Esiason, who now hosts a morning talk show on WFAN Sports Radio, Boomer and Gio, Darnold lost money playing in this year’s big game.

As a result of California’s jock tax, a local income tax that impacts visiting professional athletes, Darnold had to pay the state of California nearly a quarter of a million dollars to perform under the bright lights in Santa Clara.

“For winning the Super Bowl, the winning team, each player gets $178,000—in other words, the Super Bowl isn’t a part of their salary,” said Esiason on Monday’s show. “And they look at duty days. So, each spends seven days in the state of California. So those are seven duty days, and they pierce your regular salary at 3.5%. So, he has to pay—when you take into account, he got the $178,000 plus his overall salary, he has to pay the state of California for spending seven days there $249,000.”

So, if you do the math, Darnold paid $71,000 to play in Super Bowl LX. Now, that’s one heck of a day at the office.
Ok boomer


His concussions are catching up to him

That’s not how it works

And many states have a jock tax

So no, he did not lose money playing in the Super Bowl
 

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Ok boomer


His concussions are catching up to him

That’s not how it works

And many states have a jock tax

So no, he did not lose money playing in the Super Bowl
I've never heard of the "jock" tax. So, does that mean a cardinal player only pays state tax on the games he plays in AZ, and they have to pay taxes to every other state they play in?

I'm going back to school to learn tax preparation for athletes
 

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I've never heard of the "jock" tax. So, does that mean a cardinal player only pays state tax on the games he plays in AZ, and they have to pay taxes to every other state they play in?

I'm going back to school to learn tax preparation for athletes
That is the jist of it. Taxes follow where it is earned.

Great article that explains it.

And note, it applies to more than just athletes

 

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The Superbowl set a new tv viewer record with 135M people watching live. Impressive.

But not as impressive as you think. About 8 hours earlier an estimated 700M people watched the Liverpool - Man City Premier league game live o_O
 

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The Superbowl set a new tv viewer record with 135M people watching live. Impressive.

But not as impressive as you think. About 8 hours earlier an estimated 700M people watched the Liverpool - Man City Premier league game live o_O
Let’s go city
 

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NBC announced that Sunday’s Super Bowl between the Patriots and Seahawks averaged 124.9 million viewers, making it the second-most-watched Super Bowl ever, behind last year’s Chiefs-Eagles game.
 

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