Upcoming Supreme Court Ruling On NFL Suit May Affect All Sports Leagues

Food for thought.

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Owners are greedy
pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs
how much is enough?

Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."

by ballhawk on Dec 11, 2009 1:43 PM CST reply actions

Unions are evil

Randy Wells. A product of the Roy Halladay School of Pitching, located in Toronto, Canada. Possible relocation.

by Cub Style on Dec 13, 2009 12:39 PM CST up reply actions

No greedy owners
means no reason for unions.
Symbiosis fails.

Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."

by ballhawk on Dec 13, 2009 4:18 PM CST up reply actions

that when Jeff Gordon got divorced, the judge didn’t lean as heavily in the wife’s favor for the simple reason that, yes, while marital assets should be split evenly in most cases, in the case with Gordon, he made his money by literally risking his life. As such, he deserved more than some standard marriage husband.

So, why am I rambling like this? Well, in this case, I would much rather see the players (and coaches to a great extent) get the money rather than the owners because the players are the ones risking thier bodies to bring the entertainment.

I hope the argument by the NFL fails.

by jerry morales rules on Dec 11, 2009 2:11 PM CST reply actions

How would this affect baseball?

It already has an antitrust exempton and no salary cap.

Not sure I understand it, but interesting….

Back on baseball "talent’’ front, the depression of salaries (whether colluded or not) does bode well for Cubs in the next year or so. Ted Lilly and Derek Lee won’t get big increases unless they have really big years. Lilly is roughly equivalent to the lefty that Milwaukee just signed for under $10 M a year (and a little older, I believe), and older players like Lee will be going into 2011 aren’t gettting the big, multiyear contracts. Look at Johnny Damon.

Still I think these 2 are players the Cubs may well want to keep around a few more years.

by QuincyCub on Dec 11, 2009 3:18 PM CST reply actions

if this breaks the union for the NFL

and places a cap on coaches as well, why would any other league not look to follow suit?

baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out

by Cubbie-Tim on Dec 11, 2009 4:13 PM CST up reply actions

QuincyCub

I’m a law student who has been researching this case for the past few months…although MLB has an antitrust exemption, the NFL does not…if it is granted such in this case, the NFL will make huge strides in its competition for fans…the various joint venture entities that the NFL runs (i.e. NFL Properties) will be granted more leniency under the laws and a greater opportunity for all 32 NFL teams to collectively sell their product….that being said the NFL’s single entity argument, as applied to sports leagues, has only been recognized in one federal circuit (the 7th)

Traditionally sports leagues accused of collusion are treated under a rule of reason analysis, which takes into account market power, the various anticompetitive economic effects of a leagues behavior, and consumer harm. What is interesting about the American Needle case is that the NFL got the 7th circuit to bypass those arguments by insisting it was completely exempt from antitrust laws first…In my personal opinion, the supreme court will remand the case and insist that the 7th circuit apply the full rule of reason to the NFL’s conduct before it is allowed to argue its single entity exemption

by sgerring21 on Dec 17, 2009 4:00 PM CST reply actions