For TV networks missing sports, there’s one unthinkable scenario: Losing the NFL season

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“Throughout the spring and into the summer — without the NBA playoffs and baseball’s opening weeks — the sports world has continued to feel the steady drumbeat of the NFL. The league opened free agency as usual, providing news-making moments such as Tom Brady signing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and then its draft went off without a hitch in April, delivering boffo ratings for ESPN,” The Washington Post reports.