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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 573925" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p>thisisnate, the idea is it would hurt small market teams because the revenue flow for teams like the Cowboys would be 10X greater than that of a team like the Bills. I don’t think it will happen either but not because congress has ‘bigger fish to fry’ as that implies congress is reasonable, logical and has its priorities in order. Whenever I wonder about motivation for politicians I think of money and power (can’t have one without the other): Getting reelected seems to be the overriding priority of the vast majority. So why would congress be loath to mess with the NFL? Because it’s the most popular sport in the country any member of congress voting to screw it up would have that rubbed in their face ad nauseam every election cycle until they were defeated.</p><p></p><p>If by some chance it did happen, IMO Forbes fails to recognize an important distinction between the Packers and other small market teams: The Packers are among the top 3-5 most popular teams in the league. It’s no longer 1965 where (except for the exemption) teams would only negotiate with “local” broadcast networks. NFL network, Direct TV and ESPN are broadcast nationally so are Thursday, Sunday, and Monday night games by the networks. Without the exemption, the Packers would individually contract with them as well as the broadcast networks to show its games as “secondary” games (games shown before or after their local team’s games) on Sundays. Such a ruling would open up the bidding to show NFL games so nothing would prevent a cable network like TNT, TBS, Foxsports, NBCsports etc. from making a deal with the most popular teams. Initially IMO the Packers would be one of the “have” (as opposed to “have not”) teams. The problem would be maintaining that popularity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 573925, member: 4300"] thisisnate, the idea is it would hurt small market teams because the revenue flow for teams like the Cowboys would be 10X greater than that of a team like the Bills. I don’t think it will happen either but not because congress has ‘bigger fish to fry’ as that implies congress is reasonable, logical and has its priorities in order. Whenever I wonder about motivation for politicians I think of money and power (can’t have one without the other): Getting reelected seems to be the overriding priority of the vast majority. So why would congress be loath to mess with the NFL? Because it’s the most popular sport in the country any member of congress voting to screw it up would have that rubbed in their face ad nauseam every election cycle until they were defeated. If by some chance it did happen, IMO Forbes fails to recognize an important distinction between the Packers and other small market teams: The Packers are among the top 3-5 most popular teams in the league. It’s no longer 1965 where (except for the exemption) teams would only negotiate with “local” broadcast networks. NFL network, Direct TV and ESPN are broadcast nationally so are Thursday, Sunday, and Monday night games by the networks. Without the exemption, the Packers would individually contract with them as well as the broadcast networks to show its games as “secondary” games (games shown before or after their local team’s games) on Sundays. Such a ruling would open up the bidding to show NFL games so nothing would prevent a cable network like TNT, TBS, Foxsports, NBCsports etc. from making a deal with the most popular teams. Initially IMO the Packers would be one of the “have” (as opposed to “have not”) teams. The problem would be maintaining that popularity. [/QUOTE]
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