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Glitzier combine could help NFL make decision on host city | 2022-03-01 05:13:50

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — This week's stodgy, old NFL scouting combine is going Hollywood. The sound of silence will be replaced by music as players work out inside. Results and interviews will appear on Lucas Oil Stadium's video boards and fans will be encouraged to cheer. Whether all these changes signal a dramatically different future for the league's second-biggest offseason event remains unclear.

Tom Brady’s retirement at age 44 leaves the NFL without its iconic quarterback, best player, biggest star and fiercest competitor. With Brady deciding to focus on his family instead of football, the league loses a giant who flourished in a perfect storm of rules changes designed to protect passers, an increased focus on nutrition and personal offseason training and a dogged determination to thwart both logic and time.

The Pat D. Bowlen Trust announced Tuesday it’s in the "beginning of a sale process" for a franchise that’s valued at $4 billion and is expected to draw heavy bidding that could push the sale price well beyond that figure.