Federal judge reportedly overturns jury verdict in NFL's Sunday Ticket lawsuit in win for league

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Greed wins again.

Federal judge reportedly overturns jury verdict in NFL's Sunday Ticket lawsuit in win for league

A federal judge reportedly overturned the jury verdict in the NFL’s Sunday Ticket lawsuit on Thursday afternoon in what was a huge win for the league ahead of the 2024 season.

A jury in Los Angeles ruled earlier this summer that the league had violated federal antitrust laws by selling its Sunday Ticket package only on DirectTV at an inflated price, which set the league up to be potentially liable for more than $14 billion in damages.

https://sports.yahoo.com/federal-judge- ... 35745.html

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This has been going on for years, as you are undoubtedly aware. The Dodgers used to be free-to-air, now you pay a cable/streaming company for them, and even then all the big games get pre-empted in separate deals with individual streamers nobody gets, like Apple TV. Fortunately the Dodgers suck this year, having been hit with a truly Biblical wave of injuries, family catastrophes, and general bad luck that even building an ark won't help.

Every league, and sometimes every team, is going to negotiate its own packages and even occasional single-game deals with some streamer or other at whatever the traffic will bear. The public lost that particular war 50 years ago.