Smith's neverbackdown style plows the way for linebackers Aldon Smith, Patrick Willis and NaVorro Bowman, each of them an AllPro, to make plays and hassle the quarterback. The 33yearold Smith was signed to a sixyear contract before the 2008 season after playing his first seven years in the NFL with the Bengals. During last season's run to the Super Bowl, Smith returned to play with a partially torn left triceps muscle that later required surgery.Since the NFL largest revenue source, TV deals, are split equally amongst the 32 teams, the NFL has a vested interest in keeping the fans of small market teams engaged (something that would be hard to do when your team is not only bad, but you can even pin your hope of your team getting its pick of players in the draft) and preventing large market teams from becoming victims of themselves. If these teams are bad, then the leverage when negotiating TV deals is smaller because networks will know that they be able to get fewer eyeballs on the