Dallas Cowboys & Washington Redskins Cap Penalty Appeals Denied

Usual foes and division rivals Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys unusually worked together to appeal the salary cap penalties levied against them for stacking contracts in the uncapped season of 2010. The league warned teams against doing this trying to maintain some competitive balance in the NFL.

The Washington Redskins were penalized $26 million and the Dallas Cowboys were penalized $10 million to be split over the 2012 and 2013 seasons. At the heart of the NFC East rivals appeals was that these contracts were approved by the NFL, and that there was some confusion as how to they could be penalized for NFL approved contracts.

However NFL executive vice president and general counsel Jeff Pash announced at the owners’ meetings in Atlanta Tuesday that the penalties will be upheld as decided on by special master Stephen Burbank.

Stephen Burbank is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and met with the two teams, league representatives and representatives of the players’ union on May 10th before making his decision.

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