How?! Aren't there three new football leagues now?Seems some of you guys have missed the whole point that the NFL was found guilty of violating anti-trust laws.
I don't get how that makes this an anti-trust violation. Sunday Ticket was never cheap, but I never really felt it was overpriced, I just wasn't gonna pay it. NFL is big money.
Wasn't it?That was the finding but everybody looks at the 4.7B$ and assumes it was about Sunday Ticket fees.
article said:The National Football League violated antitrust law by overcharging for its Sunday Ticket agreement to distribute out-of-market games over 11 seasons, a federal jury decided Thursday. Plaintiffs had also contended the league restricted competition by offering the games package only via DirecTV satellite.
They increased the price for ST because the networks didn't want it competing with their local broadcasts. Want anti-Trust? How's about why can we only see the local team. Going to college in NYC was HELL!!! because it was Jets or Giants at 1 PM and Giants or Jets at 4 PM. I was always wishing the weeks would fly by so there would be a bye and I didn't have to see the Jets or Giants.The ST fees were only evidence in an anti-trust case and while 4.7B$ is a huge amount of money (which will likely be greatly reduced on appeal) the NFL's real worry is if Congress now decides to look into the NFL's Anti-Trust Exemption. That would be the real dagger in the NFL's heart..
And seriously, you think this Congress is going to look into the exemption of the NFL owners?