Reply #34: Your looking short term, the owners aren't.

[Joe the Revelator]

Baseball is just recovering attendance from their strike in the 90s. Hockey is going to have to contract in the next 5years because of their strike. 5 billion next year isn't worth losing 2 billion a year over the next 20 years which is what will happen to football if they don't have a real season next year. They worked to hard to become the national pastime to lose it all now.