Article: COOL DRY PLACE In NFL's feud with cable companies, we're the losers

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 ...

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