Is a tax imposed by the virtue of this protection, the antitrust exemption that allows the league to threaten the blackout. I will split out point out that they Sports Coalition pointed to allegations that were provided to us from an executive that wishes to remain anonymous that the reason why those three playoff games that you alluded to in your opening statement, green bay, indianapolis, the reason why those threaten blackouts didnt occur, it was alleged was because the nfl pressured broadcast networks to buy up unsold tickets in order to avoid the blackout. Now lets assume for a moment that allegation is true. Let me get this straight. The United States government gets the nfl in antitrust exemption. The nfl takes that antitrust exemption and exerts power on other third parties to get them to buy something from the nfl at full value. Now, the nfl had every opportunity to turn around to the Sports Coalition and say that is blatantly false how dare you make such allegations. Instead
Series of demands. Meanwhile, republican infighting over the shutdown continued today. We have people in our party, the ted cruz wing of the party, i dont know if they are willing to make any concession other than defunding obama care. We want to see the government on shutdown and other is the Republican Leadership in the house that we dont go the way of the 30 or 40 people, they are going to disrupt whats going on. As this staredown continues, real people all across the country are feeling the effects of shutdown, in idaho, the family of a missing hiker issued an urgent plea for volunteers to continue the search after staff at craters of the Moon National monument were furloughed. A local tour company is losing 50,000 a day because of the shutdown of the uss arizona memorial in pearl harbor. While hundreds and thousands of furloughed workers wonder how theyll make ends meet. Right now, im terrified. Im terrified. They had to live on what most of us work at and live on, they couldnt ma
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