Should the NFL be a legal monopoly like MLB?

Following on my post questioning whether government should be allowed to regulate baseball given that the Major League Baseball league has an anti-trust exemption, I came across this Washington Post article suggesting that the Supreme Court was not likely to give the National Football League a similar waiver.  In a case brought to the court by a hat maker which lost an NFL contract, justice questioning suggested that the court was inclined to rule that the NFL was a collection of independently owned teams, not a “single entity” that could be shielded from the Sherman Antitrust Act.

-Marc

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January 22, 2010 · Filed Under Marc

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