You can pretty much depreciate the entire purchase price through the roster, media contracts, suite revenues, lots of things. Previously, it was just the player salaries approximated to 50% of the purchase price over 5 years. Now it's almost everything, over 15 years.
I'm not an IRS hound so I can't provide the code number, but it was a change instituted in 04 or 05.
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Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.
- Bronco, when asked how to describe PH
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