football on Sunday

At this moment, the National Football League (NFL) owners and players are having trouble agreeing on a new collective bargaining agreement to run their sport for the future.  As a result of this impasse, the owners have locked out the players from workout facilities, and contact between players and coaches is off limits.  The start of the season on time is in question.

So what are you going to do without professional football on Sunday?  How about some college football?

Andrew Luck of Stanford could be playing football on Sunday in 2011
photo from Sports Illustrated for Kids

With professional football being the biggest spectator sport in the country, the Pacific 10 (normally called the Pac-10) conference has started the process of scheduling some of their games on Sunday, hoping to draw in some of the eyeballs that would normally be watching the NFL.  If the NFL does come back, the Pac-10 can easily switch back to Saturday football.