Average NFL salaries climbing as American olive-oil consumption climbs. The pasta dinner and the seven-figure contract, both more common than they used to be. Two completely independent inflation stories in different aisles.
Average NFL salaries grew from about 1.4 million dollars in 2005 to over 3 million by 2022 as the salary cap rose and broadcast-rights revenue compounded. US per-capita olive oil consumption grew steadily across the same window as Mediterranean-diet adoption and supermarket private-label premium expansion lifted the category. Two completely unrelated growth stories sharing a window because the same eighteen years inflated both elite-sports compensation and an upgrade-from-vegetable-oil category.
Two unrelated American premiums got more expensive. The contract and the cooking oil, both up.
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