NFL Network dispute now involves Senate (AP)

[ASFN Admin]

Two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the NFL on Wednesday threatening to reconsider the league's antitrust exemption if it doesn't make games on the NFL Network available to more viewers. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., expressed concern that many fans in their home states will not be able to see games on the channel involving the New England...

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[abomb]

Nice.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

nice indeed.

 

[Renz]

They're grandstanding. Congress loves to threaten sports leagues with taking away their anti-trust exemption, they've threatened baseball with it for decades.

They will never do it though. It's a bluff that the NFL will certainly call.

 

[vince56]

I agree. There's no way the NFL loses it's exemption.

 

[azsouthendzone]

This makes the Congressmen look like morons on a power trip. This will never happen and the NFL as well as everyone else knows this.

 

[Dback Jon]

A little pressure never hurts.