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New York stadium fight is next NFL drama

By John Helyar
ESPN.com

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

When it comes to pitched battles and high stakes, the NFL games this weekend have nothing on the NFL ownership meeting in Dallas on Thursday, when owners from the league's two teams in New York will try to convince their peers to finance part of a planned $1.2 billion stadium in New Jersey. It will be a tough sell, though there's ample precedent for the request. Since 1999, when the NFL launched its stadium financing program, 10 teams have received a total of $773 million in loans from the lea ...

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