The media keep kissing the butts of the broncos and manning, but if they are so great, then how did a bad Charger team have a 24 point halftime lead on them? They lost dumerville and picked up a highly over rated philipsbig loss for broncos . Yes, welker helps their passing game, but they will have no running game to balance it. And unlike Rivers, peyton is not a clutch QB ..The players union also has been proactive, forming its own committee and pushing the league to revamp its concussion committee which resulted in the resignation last week of cochairmen Ira Casson and David Viano. An Oct. 28 hearing before the House Judiciary Committee probing longterm effects of head injuries in the NFL also raised awareness..

Of the $9.5 billion in revenue produced by the NFL last year, nearly $4 billion of it came from its television deals alone. Game attendance jumped from a postrecession low of 17.14 million in 2010 to 17.3 million last year, but was still well short of the record