If PFT Live, Michael Hawley is back.

I got one final observation to make about this current situation with the NFL,

and it was inspired by something you said last segment about the chaos,

if the antitrust exemption goes away, or if the NFL is found to have violated the antitrust laws by exceeding its scope and it's no longer allowed to sell games to cable, satellite, or streaming, which would create its own brand of chaos.

You made the point, how's this going to help the consumers?

There could be a thought that it hurts the consumers because it throws the NFL into this gross imbalance. The salary cap doesn't

work anymore because it's set based upon all the dollars and for the teams that aren't

bringing many dollars to the table. It's going to destroy their profit margin. And we're going to have

the same kind

of griping and whining and complaining they were hearing now about college football and how

we have to save college sports. And the irony, if that's the right word to use here,

it's coming from the same business practices, decades of antitrust violations.

That's why college football and college sports are currently in chaos.

The chickens came home to roost for them.

And if it happens to the NFL, oh, we we got to save the NFL now. The NFL should have

saved itself. The NFL should have not violated the law. That would be the argument. Save yourself.

Stay away from the line of antitrust violation. Don't, don't blatantly go beyond what Congress

allowed you to do.

So anyway, I hope it doesn't happen because I don't want the NFL to be plunged into chaos.

But if it would ever happen, the final step would be, please, government, come save us from our own violations of the law.

Yeah, and it's easy to say now,

the NFL could have made different decisions.

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