Michael MacCambridge
Michael MacCambridge
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The NFL has been very good about solving problems before they got out of hand, ... Pro football has certainly suffered fewer self-inflicted wounds than other sports.
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The NFL has been very good about solving problems before they got out of hand. Pro football has certainly suffered fewer self-inflicted wounds than other sports.
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It is the central challenge that the N.F.L. is facing: how to retain those core values as it moves forward,
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It's a mistake to think that common sense will prevail again,
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He consciously positioned it as a bigger, grander, more concentrated event than baseball's World Series.
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The old guard that is worried, is worried that the finances become the most important thing. You have to remember that the real competition is on the field. And all the devices we're talking about here - the salary cap and revenue sharing and the draft and so on - are to keep a notion of competitive balance.
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The owners, as cantankerous as some of them are, and as singled-minded as some of them are and as greedy as some of them are, ultimately have respect for who Tagliabue is and what he has accomplished.
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When everybody starts broadcasting games the way 'Monday Night Football' did, then 'Monday Night Football' is not as exceptional and unique as it once was. You can turn on ESPN 2 now and see the same techniques being used for the Kent State-Akron game.