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Article: COOL DRY PLACE In NFL's feud with cable companies, we're the losers
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
- Article date:
- November 16, 2006
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Get ready for the mother of all complaint-call moments, sports
fans.
And we here in Mid-Missouri just might own the fingertips that
will be doing most of the dialing, thanks to being caught in the
crunch between two of the greediest entities on the planet.
This upcoming week is the one the NFL has been awaiting for some
time now, the one in which it believes it will be able to leverage
the nation's major cable providers into hitting the floor and kissing
its feet.
Jack Abramoff bribing Borat's father couldn't be much sleazier.
A week from today, on Thanksgiving night, the league's NFL Network
kicks off its new prime-time package with a matchup between the
Kansas City Chiefs and Denver ...