Lockout ends but other memories still haunting NFL

AFTER the NFL Players Association approved a 10-year deal to help end a four-and-a-half month lockout on Monday, there was a moment of silence.

For all its overwrought emotion, it was a moment dripping with symbolism.

This lengthy dispute had been pitched as a battle between billionaires and millionaires but an industry responsible for over 90,000 jobs across the USA had so much more at stake.