NFL’s new equity rule could be a clear collusion/antirust violation

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5 hours ago, Scott Dierking said:

Everything you say is true, but there still would be a way to work it with a cap component. 

There could be an independent arbiter that places a value of each NFL team each season. Would this be a very subjective valuation? Of course, but most of them are.

If you  have a valuation, then a percentage of stake is easily able to be chunked out as to what the value is in terms of dollars. Of course that then relates directly to cap spend. So instead of dollars, they are getting a percentage of the team in equity.

Like I said in my original post, I don't think any owner would do this, unless they were cash strapped. And even then there are other ways around this. And, you have the whole conundrum of how do you treat the Green Bay Packers. They are a whole other ownership level.  

 

Seems too messy and inexact.

Plus the first owner who gives in on this gets bumped off, so there’s that.

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