Get the latest gossip
NFL Facing $6B Tackle As ‘Sunday Ticket’ Class Action Suit Heading To Trial Next Month
Well, that’s gotta hurt. The National Football League isn’t officially saying anything yet, but the league just suffered a major loss – and we’re not talking about the woeful end …
Failing to get the nearly decade long antitrust lawsuit over the lucrative Sunday Ticket package thrown out of court, the Roger Goodell-run NFL is going to trial for potentially $6.1 billion just over a week after this year’s Super Bowl. “The NFL- DirecTV Agreement prevents telecasts from appearing on more than one channel, reducing the number of games being shown locally as free, over-the-air broadcasts and leaving DirecTV as the only option to view many games,” noted Judge Gutierrez in a nifty summary of the plaintiff’s POV in his ruling this week ( Read the judge’s order rejecting the NFL’s attempt to have the antitrust case dismissed here). “Defendants place great weight on the fact that the member clubs are not part of the NFL-DirecTV Agreement,” the LA-based Judge wrote in the 30-page order made public on Thursday.
Or read this on Deadline