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DALLAS -- It is the lockout Super Bowl -- even though it will be played. Super Bowl XLV on Sunday night, if it proves the last NFL game for unchartered time, is high-stakes theatrics, a resolute finale, an in-the-moment joy while a brooding futuristic pall creeps and lurks.
Like a last spoon of ice cream or a last step over the finish line, the end can be both sweet and bitter. NFL owners and players have been wrangling for more than a year over a fresh labor deal. The old one expires on March 3. Impasse is possible. An owners' lockout is foreseeable.
The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers saw this coming. Every NFL team did. The owners did. The union did. Among the many union strategies discussed included some players across the league insisting on a boycott of Super Bowl XLV. Just walk out. Lock them out. But it never gained muster. The game will be played.
Every team, every player entered this season with the notion that, hey, if this is the last certain Super Bowl to be played for however long, we especially want in this one. We want this ring, this year. It became a focal point among players and among teams. A battle cry.
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Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2011/02/06/super-bowl-xlv-could-be-legendary-so-could-a-lockout/
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