While I have not been closely following the NFL antitrust saga, I have been checking in from time-to -time. Mostly I am interested in the outcome of this case because I am leery of the NFL's growing ego. The NFL is currently the most successful sports league in the United States and possibly the world. And the league knows as much. When power is money and money is power and an entity has plenty of both, I become a little concern about how power is wielded.
Anyhow, oral arguments in the case of American Needle v. NFL were heard by the Supreme Court justices yesterday (January 13th). Basically, the NFL would like the Supreme Court to rule that it and its thirty-two distinct members function as a single entity for business purposes. Such a ruling would remove the NFL's activities beyond the reaches of US antitrust law and the Sherman Act. It seems as though the justices are resisting such an overarching ruling. Without muddling things up with more of my own analysis, I thought I would share some reports of the action.
Drew Brees, quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, published this piece in the Washington Post. Though, I have little doubt the NFL Players Association lawyers had a hand in this one.
Finally, perhaps my favorite analysis thus. Clear. Concise. From deadspin.com.
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