... many fans are rabidly awaiting its arrival.

But rumbling in the distance are the storm clouds that may likely change the course of NFL history...and not necessarily for the better.

While fans don't want to think about it, the NFL owners are contemplating locking out the players in 2011.  Not a possibility, you say?  The NFL would lose to many fans by cancelling an entire season, you say?

Remember the 1994 World Series?  Or the 2005 Stanley Cup? 

Is Major League Baseball or the National Hockey League dead? No, and in fact, both have become stronger since those work stoppages as all of their fans who swore off the respective leagues have come back.  And in the case of the NHL, when ...

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