Defeat NFL monopoly
Defeat NFL monopoly devises way to overcome the biggest monopoly in sports or entertainment: the $150 billion NFL. Each of its 32 teams is worth nearly $5 billion, in part due to government subsidies. The Dallas Cowboys is estimated to be perhaps the most valuable of the NFL teams.
A new rival league could succeed by adhering to these points:
- Strong, attractive names for the league and its teams; not repulsive names like "Houston Gamblers"
- Encourage chivalry, such as Tim Tebow's kneeling after success as medieval knights did
- A rejection of political correctness, including transgender cheerleaders
- Support of full free speech by players and coaches off the field, in contrast with the NFL, and no penalties based on off-field conduct
- Player ownership, in contrast with the NFL; attract stars with "sweat equity" in the league
- A point system that gives bonuses for long passes or runs near the end, thereby holding viewers
- Decline to promote gambling on games
- Require involvement by coaches, players, and teams in beneficial local community activities
- Rule changes that reward athleticism, such as banning short little passes or penalizing running out of bounds to avoid a tackle
- Devote more airtime to exciting plays on the field, rather than so much airtime on junk as the NFL does
- Criticize the NFL as a sham that panders to the liberal media, loots the public for billionaires, and fails to showcase the top athlete, even excluding some
- Do not disrupt Christmas by playing on that holy day, as the traditional NFL avoided doing in the 1960s and 1970s
- No sham tryouts, as the NFL wrongly and repeatedly did to Tim Tebow
History
The acquisition in 1970 by the NFL of the more populist American Football League (AFL) formed the modern NFL monopoly that engages in tyranny today over players and the public. The merger was announced in 1966 but the merger of operations did not occur until 1970.[1]
On July 29, 1986, a federal jury found that the NFL had attained monopoly power over professional football, and that its monopolization had caused injury to a rival league led by Donald Trump, the United States Football League.
