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NFL Owners Meeting: Financial revolution possible soon for model league

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Although not on the agenda for any votes, the league's collective bargaining agreement and revenue-sharing plan will serve as the elephant in the room for meetings which last through Wednesday.

Small-market owners are set to end the current arrangement with a vote in November to curtail the CBA and possibly throw the league into chaos by 2010. The CBA, extended in March 2006 in a last-minute compromise, would expire after the 2010 season if at least nine owners vote against it in November -- something that's considered a fait accompli at this point.

If so, the salary cap and revenue sharing could go the way of Major League Baseball, circa 1993, and turn what has been American sports' model pro league into bedlam among the haves and have-nots and those in between.

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Let's have free competition amongst the teams - no more draft, revenue sharing and salary cap. The competition will then provide a better product to the fans.

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