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Silent Sunday: No NFL for first time in history

By Larry Schwartz
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, September 21, 2001

Sept. 26, 1982 Call it Silent Sunday. Today, for the first time in the 63-year history of the National Football League, no games are played. It's Day 6 of the players' strike and no progress is reported. The 12 stadiums where games had been scheduled are deserted, 15,000 people are out of work, restaurant and hotel businesses take a sacking, 800,000 fans stay home and losses are estimated at more than $70 million. The owners of the league's 28 teams say they lost $29 million in revenues - $ ...

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