Updated 8:30 p.m. ET, Friday, April 22, 2011
During a meeting with Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE), NFL executive vice president for business ventures Eric Grubman said the league has told teams to account for deficit spending of a combined $2 billion if there is no 2011 season.
Grubman said that it costs $40 million a week to run the NFL. He added that the league is planning on having a full season. "We don't have a date by which the season is lost. We will pull every lever that we can to make (a full season) happen," he said, according to Newsday's Bob Glauber.
All NFL employees had a 12 percent salary reduction, and that will increase if the lockout continues into August. Commissioner Roger Goodell and league counsel Jeff Pash have salaries of $1 each during the current work stoppage.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame ceremony will proceed as usual, with or without a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, according to Sean Jensen of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Goodell also attended the APSE meeting and said, "We were negotiating. (The NFLPA) were the ones who pushed away. The point is we have to get back to negotiations."
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