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There will be the usual handshakes at the podium with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and the photo op holding up a jersey.
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Except that’s just what the NFL did, when it awarded a Super Bowl to New York/New Jersey. To paraphrase the lyrics of the Sinatra song: If you can play it there, you can play it anywhere.
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While the NFL Draft still is set in stone, without a new collective bargaining agreement, none of the players can be signed to contracts. For most of the draftees,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that's bad news as they haven't signed any multi-million dollar endorsement contracts to help pay the bills during the work stoppage.
While these guys haven't gone out and bought a Bentley or a helicopter yet, they no longer will have the support of their alma mater to fall back on.
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Once a new CBA is signed, there could be a rookie salary cap. This would greatly affect the contracts of prospects like Cam Newton and Blaine Gabbert. The top-round prospects have the most to lose here. The lower-round prospects won't see much change at all.
How this affects the overall value of draft picks on draft day is unknown. Without an agreement, only picks can be traded, not players. Whether this increases or decreases the value of the picks is one of those really good questions you only can speculate an answer to.
It could be the value remains unchanged. Instead of seeing a pick and some players go, you'll just see more picks thrown in. To me this means there will be fewer trades, but I've been wrong before.
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Between the tales of icy streets, slippery sidewalks, stranded tourists, chilly hotel rooms, rampant price gouging and the kickoff-time chaos created when several hundred fans learned they had bought tickets that weren’t worth a seat, I get the sense the debacle destined to be remembered as Super Bowl XLV was originally reported in an expose written by Upton Sinclair.
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With the help of $300 million in state tax money, Qwest Field opened almost nine years ago to rave reviews. The raves haven’t diminished: No NFL stadium boasts a better combination of aesthetics and intimacy in a downtown hub adjacent to restaurants, shops and public transportation.
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During the first week of February, Seattle averages a high of 49 degrees, which is indistinguishable from the NFL-mandated minimum of a 50-degree average for an outdoor Super Bowl site.
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