Posted on 07/03/2024 9:28:51 PM PDT by Enterprise
The lackluster, to say the least, media coverage of the Sunday Ticket trial against the NFL has included one specific effort to downplay the ultimate liability, by omission.
The league’s loss has been widely characterized as $4.696 billion. It’s not. It’s $14.088 billion.
The moment the judgment is entered, the amount will be tripled, given the longstanding and indisputable requirements of antitrust law. Thus, unless the judge throws the case out (and he still could), $4.696 billion will become $14.088 billion.
The NFL could still win on appeal. Regardless, the worst-case scenario isn’t nearly $4.7 billion. It’s more than $14 billion, along with pre-judgment interest, post-judgment interest, and attorneys’ fees covering a legal odyssey that has lasted nine years and counting.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcsports.com ...
I hate when sports news starts off in the middle of a story with no context provided at all.
Yeah, agree...more info. here:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/27/media/nfl-verdict-sunday-ticket-antitrust-trial/
Now you have to get Amazon, YouTube, Netflix and Peacock to watch all the games.
This is idiotic. Not a fan of the woke NFL. But why can’t they charge whatever the hell they want for their own unique product? No one has a right to watch football. It is a commodity. “Jury trial?” What a joke. Most Americans are imbeciles. 50% of them don’t pay a single $ in taxes.
Everyone pays taxes - sales taxes, property taxes (whether direct or through rent), gas taxes, etc. It's the Left trying to cover up how much people in taxes who insist on only focusing on income tax.
The slaves only owed Pharaoh 20%. We're paying globalists far more than that.
Really hilarious that “The Mucky Duck,” a modest, blue-collar dive bar in San Francisco, took down the mighty NFL on this one.
I am more angry at the NFL for their regular shakedowns of cities and their taxpayers to build billion dollar temples to sport used ten days per year. And then ten or fifteen years into their life, the local team owner becomes jealous of what his colleagues have so demands a half-billion dollar upgrade with more private boxes and a bigger screen.
I take it that 4 bil becomes 14 bil.
The guy says it 3 times in 4 lines.
Must be important somehow...
“50% of them don’t pay a single $ in taxes.”
Mitt, is that you?
You know, *that’s* a good point.
And then the owners getting other people to pay for something that either makes him a lot of money, or is a huge tax write-off.
As if the anti-trust exemption wasn’t enough...
This is idiotic. Not a fan of the woke NFL. But why can’t they charge whatever the hell they want for their own unique product? No one has a right to watch football. It is a commodity. “Jury trial?” What a joke. Most Americans are imbeciles. 50% of them don’t pay a single $ in taxes.
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And, even if the NFL was at fault, the un-tripled damages would be emotionally driven and grossly excessive.
“Have more LGTBQ events. That’ll draw in the revenue big time.”
People used to joke about the WNBA marketing to the ‘gay community’, which was going on and was successful. But then again, if your team is drawing 200 people* to each game, and now it’s 500 people, I guess one can call it successful, but I’m not sure I’d try to replicate that in men’s sports.
*mostly friends and families
Yep. Charlotte citizens just got stuck with one of those NFL con jobs.
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