"Listen, you talk about sense of disappointment, it is devastating," said Doug Marrone, who dropped his first game as a head coach in the NFL. "When we go out there and we have opportunities and you can't win that game, not only am I letting them down, we all are letting people down. We'll continue to fight and I promise you that we will get better.".If the season is truncated, the company will only charge subscribers for games played. If the season is skipped altogether, then DTV will not charge subscribers at all. In addition to the the direct reduction in revenues if there is an NFL lockout, there is also the reduced "stickiness" that could lead to subscriber losses as DTV loses one of the company's defining products.

The football study looked at 55 randomly selected college players who landed in the NFL, finding that sleepier athletes only had a 38 percent chance of staying with the team that originally drafted them. In comparison, 56 perc