Average NFL salaries climbing as American turkey production slips. Two completely unrelated American industries on opposite sides of the regression line: one elite-sports compensation, one poultry category in modest decline.
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 turkey production has declined modestly across the same window as bird-flu disruptions, shifting protein preferences, and smaller average household sizes reduced demand. Two completely unrelated lines on opposite trajectories sharing a window because the same eighteen years inflated one elite-sports compensation curve and contracted one poultry category.
Two completely unrelated American industries diverged. The contract grew; the bird shrank.
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