Today and tomorrow could be the most important days of the next several years for NFL football fans. All the NFL owners are meeting near Chicago’s O’Hare International to discuss the latest details from the negotiations and, hopefully, resolve to reach an agreement with players.

The meetings are so critical because, as the most careful analysts of the NFL lockout have pointed out, the biggest hurdle to a new labor agreement isn’t so much solving owner v. player differences as solving owner v. owner differences. There are vast differences between what some owners want from a new labor agreement and the thinking has been that the group collectively was willing to just try to make up those differences by extracting more revenue from the players.

Now is the time for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to step up for fans everywhere and unite the NFL owners. He needs to convince them that the best hope for the future is an immediate resolution.

If the owners and players are unable to reach a resolution soon, training camps and possibly preseason games will be lost, which will cost the league a lot of money, and will affect local businesses and workers.

We’re crossing our fingers and will keep you updated with the latest developments…