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Gridiron keen to draw line under season of shame (AFP)

Los Angeles (AFP) - Another brutal, bone-crunching National Football League season kicks off this week with gridiron anxious to draw a line under a season of shame that enhanced its reputation as the Wild West of professional sport.

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America's most popular sport often resembled an episode of America's most wanted after a series of scandals involving domestic violence, child abuse and even a conviction for murder.