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'The overall losses to these people are going to be small, but they're not small to them.' 'The doomsday scenarios are exaggerated, but there will be innocent bystanders who are casualties of this,' said John Vrooman, who teaches sports economics at Vanderbilt University. However, it's still money they are counting on. With just eight home games per regular season, game days are only a part of a worker's income extra hours or a second job for stadium types, a busy day at the office for the waiter at a nearby sports bar. 'We have a big backlog of items that deliver services to town,' Scollins said. The town's capital budget the line item that would be hit already has been 'starved out' for several years, skimping on all but the school buses, said Randy Scollins, Foxborough's finance director. The way things are set up in Foxborough, Mass., revenue from the Patriots' stadium pays for big-ticket items such as school buses, school computers, highway trucks and fire engines. Local tax districts would suffer, too, most of all in places where there are tariffs on tickets or parking spots to repay stadium costs. Teams would be hit hard because they collect a lot of the money spent on game days (concessions, parking, souvenirs), especially in newer stadiums designed to maximize their haul. To gauge the fiscal fallout of NFL games not being played, The Associated Press interviewed dozens of economists, business owners and team officials from across the country. Either scenario would put the NFL on a path that might wipe out some or all the upcoming season. If they don't have a deal by Friday afternoon, the owners could lock out the players or the NFLPA might decertify and take its fight to court. The NFL and the players union are talking with a federal mediator to work out a new collective bargaining agreement. It may not be the same shaking as at the epicenter, but you feel it.'

You feel the shock everywhere along the way. 'You can't really assume the impact is limited to the area around the stadium. Economies' and an associate professor in economics at Louisiana Tech.

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Cochran, co-author of 'An Event Study of the Economic Impact of Professional Sport Franchises on Local U.S. 'It's like an earthquake there's a ripple effect out to other people, other parts of the region,' said James J.