The NFL has been in a lockout for 100 days (on Friday, June 24). The disagreement is between the owners of the teams and the NFL Players Association. The two are not able to come to terms on who gets what the NFL revenue pie.
Here is a timeline of what has happened in the past few months:
March 4, 2011- NFL and NFL Players Association mutually agree to a seven-day extension to try and avoid a lockout.
March 12- Lockout begins.
April 25- Judge grants injunction to end lockout.
April 28- NFL Draft.
April 29- Appeals court restores lockout.
There has not been much else happen since April 29. The two sides are talking but are not able to agree on much. The days without football are turning into weeks, and into months. Training camp starts in August, and the regular season in September. Those two months are rapidly approaching.
The people who would be most affected from a 2011 NFL Lockout? Hoosiers. The Super Bowl next season will take place at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our city and state have poured millions into getting ready for the event. If there is no Super Bowl here, that will be millions wasted.
Lucas Oil Stadium, The Conrad Hotel, The J.W. Marriott, and a new football facility on the south side of Indianapolis were all built because the Super Bowl will be taking place here. If there is no 2011 season, and no 2012 Super Bowl, the NFL owes Indiana an apology and hundreds of millions dollars."The effects could be consequential," said Michael Hicks, director of Ball State University’s Center for Business and Economic Research. "We'll probably see a loss of $200 million if there is a lockout."
-After posting this I learned that if there is no 2011 season or Super Bowl, Indy will get to host the 2015 Super Bowl.
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