San Francisco bar behind $4.7 billion lawsuit won against NFL Sunday Ticket

#nfl #lawsuit #sundayticket #sports #abc7news

[mr.saanserv]

Fleecing the public to pay for stadiums ain't enough for them.

[deenyc]

The entire cable industry operates illegally. Many areas are monopolies where you have no choice of providers.

[t.a.ackerman]

The anti-trust law is now being used to challenge Ticketmaster. Lets hope for a similar ruling there.

[joshuabayerjazz]

Screw the NFL. And moving games overseas from the very communities they blackmail is disgusting.

[darylb]

Bars pay for Sunday ticket based on the number of seats they have. If a bar has 100 seats and the home team is out of the playoffs and only 10 people show up to drink on Sunday morning the bar is screwed.
I don’t know if the decision is right but I’m glad the court smacked the NFL

[MrStaybrown]

Price gouging NFL.
They'll blame inflation.

[untouchablex]

Lose a million dollar lawsuit. It’s your problem. Lose a billion dollar lawsuit. It’s their problem.

[j.t.]

That's why I haven't watch sport for over 25 years. Its all business and they don't care about their fans.

[techlife]

The fine should be doubled if the defendant " The NFL" Appeals and loses the Appeal. That way companies won't automatically appeal because there's a huge penalty if you lose your appeal.

[OpenRoader]

When players make $100 million and fans and businesses struggle, yeah, F the NFL

[HKim]

Here's a written summary:
_Originally filed in 2015 by the Mucky Duck sports bar, the lawsuit claimed that the league and its teams had conspired to give DirecTV an illegal monopoly on out-of-market games until YouTube took it over, starting with the 2023 season. The plaintiffs noted that other leagues distributed live, out-of-market games through multiple providers instead of just one exclusive partner like the NFL and argued during the case that the setup not only inflated the price of Sunday Ticket but also forced viewers to pay for games during weeks when their preferred team wasn’t playing._
Sounds like the NFL's anti-trust exemption only deals with over air TV and not pay TV. Lots of complicated lawyer stuff.

[aw]

Football is fucking stupid. All about money.

[johnwattdotca]

Here in the Niagara Peninsula, when satellite TV first came out, local bars showed sports games. The NFL sent lawyers over the border at Buffalo to a bar in Fort Erie that was showing an NFL game, and sued them, saying it was illegal for them to promote it.

[MBorLess]

This is how most things are for consumers in the US. It's a take it or leave it. There is no competition corporations simply focus on destroying any possible competition.

[neuterspadeyourpets.]

DELETE YOUR CABLE PROVIDER and see how fast prices go DOWN. Get rid of your cable for a year and you’ll NEVER want to pay again for CRAP.

[donaldblair]

There's 12 minutes of action in a football game. Y'all worship these men. 12 minutes, 12 frickin minutes . No thanks.

[kevinroberts]

Over 90 per month that is like 1000 per year for football no thanks

[shredlepzin]

The NFL will simply find the right court, judge, SCOTUS, to never pay a dime of this lawsuit

[PortlandViper]

How much of those billions will actually get paid and to who? What a joke the legal system has become.

[geniferteal]

I totally agree with this lawsuit. And I'm glad they won. It is a bit weird that a bar is worried or defending that the cost is too high for an average consumer. The bar is actually benefiting from the situation because people aren't as willing to pay for their own subscription. instead they will come to the bar to watch.