2.A hint of good news. Interesting stuff from the NFL owners meetings in Chicago. A day after New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft discussed the possibility of having an agreement by the holidays between owners and players to avert a lockout came a Wall Street Journal report that owners had been presented a study outlining potential lockout losses. The report estimated the league could lose $400 in in March and another $500 million if the lockout would extend into preseason. The report also estimated each team could lose $8 million per home game lost. This entry is not at all predicting whether a lockout will happen, but the possibility of that sort of revenue lost in March – because of the potential impact on season-ticket sales, according to the story – would suggest incentive to get a deal done more quickly than some originally thought. Stay tuned, but the feeling – and hope – here is that a lockout isn’t the foregone conclusion some observers may believe.
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