PDA

View Full Version : Start of the 2010 season has a question mark



Lonestar
02-09-2010, 11:15 PM
The start of the 2010 season has a question mark
By JEFF LEGWOLD

The NFL again celebrated its position at the top of the nation’s sports pyramid this past week, finishing with a Super Bowl that became the highest-rated television program in history.

But it is the 2010 season that will determine if the league — owners and players together — are interested in keeping it on the high ground. The prospect of a labor stoppage in 2011 threatened to overshadow the Big Game at times last week and will be around every turn in the coming football year.

The threat is already being felt even now as teams across the league try to decide what they will do in free agency, how they will fill in the holes in their rosters.

The Broncos, too, will have difficulty trying to decide where to go from here. The crux of the matter is they, like every other team in the league, aren’t sure what to do with multi-year contracts.

Teams want to know if they are going to have to pay any guaranteed money in players’ contracts if there is no football in 2011 because of a lockout. The league hasn’t really given them answer.

As a result the Broncos and many other teams may not be all that active in an uncertain free agent market in the coming weeks because of the financial uncertainty that’s not all that far down the road.

So, while the ending of the 2009 was a resounding success Sunday, the start of 2010’s football year this week is already littered with plenty of questions with no easy answers. Especially for teams like the Broncos, who’d sure like to be a part of the postseason parade the next time around.