Current news reports inform us that the NFL is seeking $2 billion in loans to help defray operating costs. In this time of great economic uncertainty and the hackneyed “credit-crunch,” I wonder to what source(s) it might turn? Who might recently have become the beneficiaries of the kind of money that might permit loans of this magnitude? Hmmmmm? Might banks or other financial institutions – themselves the recipients of hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer-financed largesse – be such a source? The NFL has many costs to cover, including the multi-million salaries of players, maintenance expenses on sky-boxes, and … Continue reading Bailing Out the NFL?