Denver Native (Carol)
08-03-2014, 12:37 PM
It seems incomprehensible now, but it wasn't all that long ago when the NFL was in serious distress.
It was the period from 1989-91, and the U.S. economy was mired in a deep recession. The NFL had just surpassed baseball as America's most popular sport, but barely — by 1 percent, according to a national poll. The NBA was reveling in an era that merged the Showtime Lakers, Larry Bird's Celtics and a young superstar named Michael Jordan.
The TV networks claimed they were losing money from their NFL packages. And TV executives wanted a break.
rest - http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_26266042/pat-bowlens-contributions-nfl-make-him-potential-hall
It was the period from 1989-91, and the U.S. economy was mired in a deep recession. The NFL had just surpassed baseball as America's most popular sport, but barely — by 1 percent, according to a national poll. The NBA was reveling in an era that merged the Showtime Lakers, Larry Bird's Celtics and a young superstar named Michael Jordan.
The TV networks claimed they were losing money from their NFL packages. And TV executives wanted a break.
rest - http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_26266042/pat-bowlens-contributions-nfl-make-him-potential-hall