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Amid Chaos, NFL Deserves Place on Basic Cable

By Neil Best -- NewsDay, 11/15/2007

This sums things up nicely: I tried to copy my notes and quotes on the NFL Network's feud with cable companies onto a new document before writing this column, but it didn't work.

The file was too big. (And my laptop is really, really old.)

Not since the Great A-Rod Opt-Out Debate of mid-fall 2007 - remember that wacky drama? - have so many talk radio words, barrels of ink and gigabytes of bandwidth been wasted on a squabble over money among zillionaires.

Alas, it's difficult to resist, what with the network less than a week from its first game of 2007 and less than two from Packers-Cowboys Nov. 29.

Explaining every nuance would require many pages. (See my blog a Newsday.com for 2,000 words of Jerry Jones' thoughts on the subject.) So this will be a gross oversimplification. Sorry.

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