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c0wpig t1_j7so28c wrote

Reply to comment by washingtonpost in How the NFL avoids paying disabled players — with the union’s help by washingtonpost

> “There have been roughly 10,000 claims considered since 2008,” wrote league spokesman Brian McCarthy. “Even if those less than a dozen cases were improperly decided — and they were not — the less than one dozen cases hardly amount to a pattern.”

This seems like a pretty brazen statement. Shouldn't a single case be cause for serious concern? Shouldn't the standard be never improperly rejecting legitimate healthcare claims?

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ptabs226 t1_j7slwua wrote

Reply to comment by predictingzepast in How the NFL avoids paying disabled players — with the union’s help by washingtonpost

NFL needs to lose its antitrust exemption

>That’s because back in the early 1960s, Congress gave the league an exemption to federal antitrust laws, permitting all of the individual teams to act as a single entity when negotiating TV contracts. By bargaining together, the owners have been able to land dramatically more lucrative broadcasting deals. At the time it was drafted, the antitrust exemption very well may have been a benefit to the public, because it required that broadcasters air every team’s games in their home markets, says antitrust economist Andy Schwarz. But subsequent advances in technology, Schwarz says, have made it “an obsolete exemption.”

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AlanFromRochester t1_j7skz37 wrote

Reply to comment by brett1081 in How the NFL avoids paying disabled players — with the union’s help by washingtonpost

Everton is my team in that football, relegation fights can be a little too interesting. ;)

While that's about the business model rather than the sport itself, it does make late season games for poorly performing teams still relevant instead of "we aren't making the playoffs so F it". While a draft is good for parity, tanking is perverse.

The other football could use a salary cap though, another parity measure, that avoids Man City type financial shenanigans.

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Jrdirtbike114 t1_j7sh7l5 wrote

Reply to comment by brett1081 in How the NFL avoids paying disabled players — with the union’s help by washingtonpost

I only pirate watch Chiefs games because I'm a lifelong fan and we now have Patrick Mahomes. If it weren't for him, I think I'd have quit watching a few years ago. The game has turned into a snooze fest/advertisement vehicle and the sport of football is clearly an afterthought, not to mention the ethics of it all. Ugh

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