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While the event is going on. but thats local energy too in brazil or france or places where ive seen nice outdoor things. but when fifa leaves, it leaves behind stadiums. and brazil has many stadiums. south korea, a fairly affluent or emerging country built stadiums for 2002 that never got used well again. so -- and of course you can say the same thing about the olympics. but i tell you from having covered both for decades that fifa makes the olympics look like the boy scouts and the girl scouts...

The league makes $9 billion. the owners take a billion off the top of that before they start sharing money with the players. they want to now take another billion dollars out of that revenue pool before they start sharing with the players. part of the issue is this spate of stadium building that happened over the last 15 years in the nfl. a lot of those were debt financed. even with the incredible revenues and popularity of the sport, the owners are saying they really need more money to service ...

Resolution. so were talking an extension here? whats the story. >> thats right. the deadline would be midnight tonight for the collective bargaining agreement. but it looks like they will push that deadline back. it might be a week, it might be two weeks. this is the first really good news in these negotiations over the last ten days. theres been sort of a news blackout from these negotiations, but theres been not a lot of optimism until now, and so this pushing back the deadline a couple weeks ...

Launch against other players, cutting back on helmet-to-helmet hits. so the league is conscious of this issue for sure. >> yet, theyre still perhaps asking to extend the season by two games. sick around, mark. i have all kinds of other questions for you about the nfl players, the owner negotiations under way this second in washington and i checked a tweet from one of your colleagues that perhaps is a game-changer in these negotiations. stay right there. this intervent to you by niaspan. so now y...

Okay, football fans. the clock is running out for the nfl. owners, the players union are facing a midnight deadline tonight to try to work out their disagreements. and this is football so this is important stuff, right? even the president of the united states amidst talking about libya and mem coweighed in on the nfl during his news conference this afternoon. >> im a big football fan. but i also think that for an industry thats making $9 billion a year in revenue, they can figure out how to divi...