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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Coming to you live from the beach, where NFL owners begin gathering tonight at the Ritz-Carlton for two days of meetings. I'll be posting developments as they come up, but in the meantime here's a quick rundown on what these guys will be discussing this week in between their regular checks of Drew Rosenhaus' twitter updates:-The 2013 Super Bowl. Sometime Tuesday, the league will announce the site of the 2013 game. New Orleans is the favorite, but South Florida and Arizona remain in the running until somebody tells us otherwise. The weather here was gorgeous today, but it's clouding up and thunderstorms are forecast for the next couple of days. Such things are unlikely to seriously hurt South Florida's case, but it can't help. The next three Super Bowls are set for Miami, Arlington and Indianapolis.
-Rookie Salary Cap: This was a hot topic around the draft, and it's clear that commissioner Roger Goodell and the owners favor some kind of device for getting rookie salaries in line. Too many people are upset about high draft picks getting larger contracts than veterans get. New union chief DeMaurice Smith is on record as saying the players don't think this is their problem -- that if the owners don't want to pay the rookies so much, they should just stop doing it. Expect this to not be decided this week but to be an issue in the upcoming collective bargaining agreement, along with...
-Expansion of the regular season. Goodell has said he wants to expand the regular season to 17 or 18 games (and shorten the preseason accordingly by one or two). Owners favor the plan, but Smith and the players want to make sure they get some kind of compensation in return for the added health and injury risks associated with addining meaningful games to the schedule.
-There's also likely to be talk of continuing to hold regular-season games overseas. They're having one in London again this year and likely two there in 2010, though the league continues to insist that it's not considering holding a Super Bowl across the pond.
More as the days unfold. And more ways to follow me around here. Inspired by Rosenhaus, I have decided to become a more faithful twitterer, tweeter or whatever it's called. You can keep up with my chirping @grazdanny.
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