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Middle class has vanished in 2005

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Friday, December 16, 2005

In a season during which the widening schism between the NFL's haves and have-nots has been the subject of considerable debate at league meetings and in negotiations for an extension to the collective bargaining agreement, the treacherous trend has become nearly as profound on the field as on the financial ledger sheets. A league whose hallmark has long been competitive balance has, in most uncharacteristic manner, watched the scales become skewed. It's almost as if the NFL morphed in 2005 into ...

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