The owners are playing a stupid game by playing hardball. The longer this drags out, the more their empire is threatened.
I thought the effects might turn on the owners when it came to the specific ability to argue the legality of the lockout, but to lose the antitrust exemption altogether could be a major blow to the NFL in this case and future events … and leave the league with with far bigger problems than a lockout.
You see, Representative Conyers isn’t the only politician who believes that the NFL is in the wrong; Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has already opined that the NFL should open its books, and that was before the Doty appeal ruling, when the league was found to have acted in bad faith in its fiduciary duty to the players in the negotiation of television contracts.
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