TV executives spew billions to appease the league.
Courts look the other way.
Cities trip all over each other to erect football palaces to lure NFL teams, or to keep them from bolting to other cities. None of this matters to John Crotty and his partners, Peter Lyons and Brian Flynn. They have a plan, and it's a plan they believe in whether the NFL likes it or not. The three of them, just regular New York football fans in their 30s, want to buy the New York Jets. Now, these guys aren't exactly Donald Trumps, so they need the help of maybe 200,000 other die-hards to pull this off.