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  <title>Free agency and the NFL</title>
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        <body>Free enterprise is what it's about... I am all for team loyalty, but these guys have to try and get as much as they can because a team would be just as quick to cut a guy, as they are to pay them free agent type money... also doesn't help that their contracts are not guaranteed.</body>
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        <body>While I agree with Peter King that free agency made a huge impact, and a lot of it positive impact, what ever happened to TEAM LOYALTY?  Too often it seems to be all about the money.</body>
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  <body>&lt;p&gt;How different would the NFL be today without free agency? The advent of free agency in 1993, thanks to a court ruling, heightened fan interest in the offseason and ushered in an era of true parity in the league for years to come.&lt;/p&gt;</body>
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