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Enough talk about parity, please

By Gregg Easterbrook
Special to Page 2

Monday, January 22, 2007

Scratch a sports nut and he or she will complain that parity plagues the post-salary-cap NFL. It isn't just the sports radio universe that claims this -- recently the New York Times, which styles itself the Paper of Record, has run two prominent articles complaining that NFL parity has changed everything for the worse. If everything really has changed for the worst, why are the NFL's ratings and attendance numbers at record levels? And supposing there is a shocking outbreak of parity, why would ...

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