RealClearSports: I Told You So: NFL Back in Business

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

The New York tabloids gave it that, "This is the most miraculous thing ever,'' approach, but, hey, understatement is not their style.

"Christmas in July,'' was the headline fromon the Daily News. Be interesting to see their assessment of Christmas in December.

Look. I don't want to say I told you, but ...

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RealClearSports: Billion Here, There ... No NFL Anywhere

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

To paraphrase H.L. Mencken, you'll never go wrong underestimating the intelligence of those trying to reach a new collective-bargaining agreement.

Looks bad, people. A week ago I promised there would be an NFL season in 2011. Believed both sides, the owners and the players, were too wise to mess up a good thing. Thought they understood the idea of compromise.

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RealClearSports: Guaranteed: There Will Be an NFL Season

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

So that's settled. There will be an NFL season. Guaranteed.

What, you were worried, unhinged by the rhetoric? It's going the way it was supposed to go, to the 11th hour, to the edge. A long-ago Secretary of State named John Foster Dulles described the tactic as brinksmanship.

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