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SCOTT JACOBS

We’re a week away from June and there’s no resolution in sight for this NFL Lock Out (we’re making it two words from now on, because the two words together just make me nauseous).  We asked you a couple months ago what you thought the end result of this Lock Out would be, and to be more frank, when you thought it would end.

Well, we’ve tabulated your results, and 35.8% of you said the Lock Out would end in June.  So much for that exercise.  Right now the NFL would be lucky if they made progress in June, and fans would be overjoyed if there was an agreement in place by the end of July.

This NFL Lock Out could wipe out training camps, regular season games, and worst comes to worst — pull a hockey — and wipe out an entire season, which would include the Super Bowl.

16.0% of you think that we’re going to have a Lock Out into the season, and 14.8% weighed in with a prediction scarier than what Ray Lewis says in 1 on 1 sit down interviews — that there will be no season.

17.3% voted that it would wipe out training camp.  16.0% didn’t think there would ever be a lockout.  Whoops, probably should have eliminated that one as an option.

Personally, we’d be lucky if the NFL was able to get it’s season going and this lockout resolved with the only casualty being games that don’t matter.  But it’s hard to tell just where this will end — because when the season gets closer, and the fans groans get louder, it’s going to hit home that all this dilly dallying is pissing a lot of people off and really bad for business.

The start of the NFL season needs to be on time, or at the very least a week or two into the season, because any later and you’re throwing off the true dignity of the year.  Think about it: the 1999 NBA season was cut short because of a lockout, and they played 50 games.  The Spurs won the NBA Championship, but it’s one of the least respected seasons in sports memory.  The NFL does not want that, after this crummy NFL Lock Out.

Maybe by separating the two words, Lock and Out, we can get the good NFL karma flowing again, while getting DeMaurice Smith and Roger Goodell back to the table.  As far as I’m concerned these lawyers can shove it where the sun don’t shine, because their presence has only served to muddy up this messy situation even more.

Employees are losing their jobs, fans are getting antsy, and players like Ray Lewis are predicting absurd things like crime rates going up if there’s no football.  I’m not willing to go that far yet, but after the NBA season ends, and sports fans have more time to dwell, it’s only going to get uglier.  The NBA is masking football’s mess right now, but once The Finals culminate there’s no where to hide.  For either league.  Especially football.

So here’s to the majority of you, who think the Lock Out will end in June.  God Bless you if you’re right.  I just think there’s no chance of that happening.

Though I would love, love, love to be wrong.

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