There Will Not Be a Lockout in the NFL

Public discussion of the looming labor war in the National Football League has all but conceded that NFL owners will lock out players if there is not a new collective bargaining agreement by March 2011. Owners will not lock out players in 2011. Instead, NFL owners will employ a tactic that enhances their leverage in CBA negotiations, increases their share revenues over what they retain under the current CBA, and avoids the wrath of fans, which would surely follow a lockout...