Driving around in my car listening to sports radio, I get a
steady stream of updates on the NFL lock-out situation. As soon
they start talking about it, I change the station. Same goes for
TV updates on this. Mention this lock-out and I'm out.  And yet
for the past four months the sports media continues to update me
every day. Bad for their ratings, I believe. Boring beyond
belief. Argumentative, politics, bureaucratic, legalistic, slow-
moving, greedy, manipulative, posturing, phony. Get me out of
here.  I am not one of those hard-core NFL fans who will lose
sleep if the NFL season gets suspended. Good, I say, they'll all
lose money and realize that the world can live without them.
They'll start to panic that their millions and billions of
dollars are dwindling away. Welcome to the real world of real
people where money is harder to come by.  Cancel the season.
Then maybe I'll tune in to hear all the stories about how these
people can't afford to buy as many mansions and flashy cars. I
know the NFL's popularit