[SoCal Pubbie]

Looks like this author might want to brush up on the process too. Heard a commentator recently say that the owners may simply declare an impasse, with no lockout. If the players don't settle then they'll be the ones blocking work, not the owners.

[Alberta's Child]

Interesting point. I don't think there's any way the NFL can go into next season without a plan to play their full schedule of games. If they don't show up for the first regular season game, you're going to see a lot of municipal and county governments hung out to dry paying off their new stadiums.

I'm a one-time die-hard NFL fan who has proudly gone for about the ninth straight year without watching so much as ten seconds of the Super Bowl.

[okie01]

Looks like this author might want to brush up on the process too.

As a group, journalists are among the least intelligent life forms in the world.

Sportswriters are even more ignorant. They generally have no lucid understanding of the sport they cover -- only the personalities.