NFL and players must find route up the middle

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Three added years of activity peace, and the NFL will accept gone a quarter-century afterwards a plan stoppage.

But don't buy that ceremony block just yet.

A lockout could be looming.

DeMaurice Smith, anew appointed controlling administrator of the NFL Players Assn., said as abundant Monday in a appointment to Indianapolis Colts training camp. He told reporters he expects aggregation owners to lock out the players if the accepted aggregate acceding acceding expires afterwards the 2010 season.

Tough talk? Maybe. But that doesn't beggarly it isn't true.

Smith and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell are branch into the better analysis of their almost adolescent careers, answerable with analytic a banking Rubik's Cube their predecessors couldn't.