Supreme Court rules NFL is 32 teams, not single business

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Quote: Originally Posted by MassNole

In the 1990's the NFL had multiple contracts with uniform manufacturers and divided it up in a way that could be likened to communism. The example I remember best off the top of my head is with shoes, each team had to have so many players wearing Nike, Reebok, and Russell.

Okay I didn't know how the money was distributed that evenly. In that case it makes the NFL's case a bit stronger but there's nothing that says that kind of model can't work again and that's the argument that American Needle is likely making.