The NFL attempted to remove revenues from the pool of money shared by the owners and the players in the form of "waived gate".

Arbitrator Stephen Burbank issued a short and clear ruling find that the league improperly had treated “waived gate” revenue as stadium credit, necessarily reducing the salary cap by funneling cash away from it.

Some teams that intended to make stadium renovations or upgrades unilaterally began to remove amounts from general admission tickets sales, dubbing the amounts “Incremental Gate VTS.”