Ummmkay
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/313959/string-theories-is-the-nfl-broken-because-its-fi.html#:~:text=Throughout that case, the NFL,professional wrestling and roller derby.
Clarification on how the NFL defines itself in legal proceedings:
Throughout that case, the
NFL repeatedly positioned itself legally as a “
sports entertainment” business, not a genuinely contested “
sport.” College football, for example, is legally classified as a “collegiate
sport.” The only other “
sports entertainment” businesses are professional wrestling and roller derby. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_entertainment
Your "facts" are, in fact, your opinions. The fact is the NFL is exempt from anti-trust laws which can allow for game outcomes to be manipulated. It is, in fact, like the WWF in that respect.
First thing - the article you posted is an op-ed piece - Its clearly labled Commentary at the top of the article ... its opinion based, not fact based. and its full of BS... the article is piled high with a bunch of conjecture, what-if and made up "facts" ... it truly is, in the parlance of the day, Fake News.
What the court decision says in
Mayer vs Belichick is simply that the ticket holder to an event has the right to enter the stadium and watch the event. Thats it. A ticket offers nothing more than a license to be a spectator. Everything else in that Commentary is just an opinion of a guy pushing an agenda.
Secondly, in the decision by the court, The NFL was never characterized as "Sports Entertainment". In fact the judge writing the decision called the NFL a "professional sport" multiple times. The NFL never characterized itself as "Sports Entertainment", nor was it found to be anything but a professional sporting organization by the court in its decision.
here is the decision -->
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-3rd-circuit/1524532.html Read it. Educate yourself. Or don't & continue to be intellectually lazy.
And lastly, the Holy Grail of the "NFL is Rigged" Conspiracy hacks... The Antitrust Exemption... Do you even know what Antitrust Exemption means? Did you ever bother to look it up?
The NFL has a
limited antitrust exemption that's based on a 1965 ruling by the courts. The exemption allows the NFL to package its games and sell them as one product to individual broadcast companies. Based on the structure of the NFL, 32 individual teams, it is technically illegal for the league to package its product and sell it to the bidder of choice as it promotes consolidation and theoretically stifles competition between the 32 independently owned franchises. The NFL anti-trust exemption allows the teams to act as one organization and package and sell its product accordingly. That's it.
The NFL Antitrust exemption is monitored by the Justice Department, and any attempts to stifle competition ( THIS CLAUSE PROHIBITS MATCH FIXING!!!!!! ) and/or influence competing leagues (which is why the USFL won its court case vs the NFL) would be a violation, and the NFL could potentially lose its exemption, and with it, lose the ability to generate Billions of Dollars on an annual basis.