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In the aftermath of last month’s $4.7 billion antitrust verdict against the NFL in the Sunday Ticket case (which, if it stands, will become $14.1 billion), the NFL said the liability won’t directly impact the salary cap. More recently, Ben Fischer of Sports Business Journal reported that several owners are considering foisting some of the financial responsibility onto the players.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, the only owner who testified live in court during the trial, said Saturday that the verdict will impact the team-by-team spending limit.
Via David Harris of the team’s official website, Jones said he expects “a lot of ramifications on cap” due to the class action.
“It has to be considered,” Jones said. “It doesn’t make me flare, but it’s a fact. I think I know better than anybody of what the cap will be four years from now.”
To the extent that the Sunday Ticket verdict will potentially impact the cap, the specific amount is impossible to know because the end result of the case could still be zero or close to it. And with the case destined to be taken all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court (after it goes to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit), it could take three or four years before the litigation has reached a final conclusion.
This reality permits Jones’s remarks to be interpreted in one very specific, narrow way. If he envisions “a lot of ramifications” to the cap and if he knows what it will be “four years from now,” Jones possibly expects the league to begin accounting for the amount due before it becomes official.
The union would have to agree, of course. As explained the other day, the NFL Players Association could advance various arguments against the Sunday Ticket outcome impacting the cap, since it’s for management not the players to turn TV rights into revenue.
The league’s hammer could come from telling the NFLPA that it will disband Sunday Ticket for a model that avoids antitrust issues — and that in turn impacts revenues in a…
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Author : ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports
Publish date : 2024-07-27 20:44:20
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