Expect the NFL to extend their collective bargaining agreement before the 2006 season starts.
That would destroy the parity that NFL teams have enjoyed the past ten years.
The NFL Players Association is arguing that the league is misrepresenting its economic situation.
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The NFL, with its national model that spreads money around the league equally, has less incentive to change.
So the bar has been raised very high for Madden NFL 12 to live up to.
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Or is it too little, too late for the publisher of Battlefield and Madden NFL?
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For now, any hopes of salvaging his NFL career are secondary to his impending confinement.
After the dogfighting story first emerged, Vick told NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell he wasn't involved.
Both moves were in flagrant conflict with the NFL's contracts with Coca-Cola and Visa.
During my nine years in the NFL, I lived that close to the edge of destruction.
Conversely, the economics of the NFL and NBA for top young players are totally different.
Before joining the Ravens, McClain spent his first three NFL seasons with the Oakland Raiders.
The NBA and NFL have salary caps designed to keep some parity in spending.
Tebow is currently a free agent and hasn't garnered interest from NFL teams since being cut.
The NFL is built on TV and the viewing audience is so splintered now.
The NFL represented eight out of the top ten primetime programs in 2010 according to Nielsen.
Fans were practically on their knees in late summer, begging the NFL to find labor peace.
An enormous wide-screen TV is aglow with, simultaneously, CNBC, ESPN and the NFL Network.
Will scouts overlook these struggles to transition to the NFL when it comes to grading Barkley?
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They both at least according to a 2010 NFL on FOX commercial possess miraculous transportive faculties.
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Of course, NFL fans know that Al Davis was a bit of a gambler.
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Next to Katie is her rival from Berkeley, the daughter of a former NFL wide receiver.
But as the ratings data proved Sunday night, NFL football fans really love a comeback story.
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But if this is the strongest playoff bracket in NFL history, you wouldn't know it.
The team was 20th out of all NFL teams in home game attendance in 2012.
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But Garrard hadn't played in a regular-season game in the NFL since 2010 because of injuries.
Sure, we all know that in the U.S. sports world, the NFL is the big dog.
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Elam may not even make it past the first day (Friday) of the 2013 NFL Draft.
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After 562 runs, receptions and kickoff returns in his four-year NFL career, he still hasn't fumbled.
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But there is no denying that the NFL would be an excellent source of Olympians.
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