After missing last season due to injury, can New England Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady return to Super Bowl form?
After spending nearly two years in the slammer, how will Michael Vick fit into the Philadelphia Eagles' offense, not to mention society?
And perhaps most puzzling of all, why, during these historically bad economic times, is the NFL sticking it to its fans?
It’s the blackout rule which began in 1973.
The blackout rule states that a game would not be broadcast in a team's local market if it did not sell out its stadium 72 hours prior to kickoff.
The league feared that TV broadcasts would stop people from buying tickets. The blackout rule only affected a handful of games.
In the wake of the nation's worst recession in decades, as many as a dozen of the NFL's 32 markets, including Arizona, Cincinnati, Detroit, Jacksonville, Minnesota and San Diego, are in danger of having their local telecasts blacked out.
A Jacksonville Jaguars official says it's "very possible" that none of the team's eight home games will be broadcast in the hard-hit region (by comparison, only nine of the NFL's 256 regular-season games last year were blacked out).
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