This strikes me as hilarious. The more details that leak out, the worse they look.
Two weeks ago, U.S. District Court Judge David Doty ruled – rejecting a special master’s previous decision – that the NFL illegally secured the money from TV contracts for 2011, money the players contend was arranged to fund a lockout.
A week ago, the union requested that all exhibits, testimony and transcripts be unsealed.
The league filed its response and included redacted versions of exhibits cited in Doty’s decision totaling more than 800 pages. Much of the information was blacked out to protect information the NFL considers sensitive, harmful to future negotiations if revealed and damaging to business relations.
“Unsealing these documents would reveal to entities with whom we have, may have, or seek to have commercial relationships our internal thought processes relating to television programming and digital rights,” Brian Rolapp, chief operating officer for NFL Media, wrote in his declaration of support filed with the league’s request.
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