lethal wrote:

phatj wrote:"Own a little piece of history with American Needle's 1969 Seattle Pilots Cooperstown Cap, a precise replica of what the legendary pros once wore."

What does it say about me if the first thing I thought of after reading this sentence was the American Needle vs NFL Supreme Court case?

jerseyhoya wrote:Tomorrow is likely to be a day where I do shit like vacuum and clean my bathroom and watch college basketball rather than the schoolwork and work work I really ought to do

phatj wrote:

lethal wrote:

phatj wrote:"Own a little piece of history with American Needle's 1969 Seattle Pilots Cooperstown Cap, a precise replica of what the legendary pros once wore."

What does it say about me if the first thing I thought of after reading this sentence was the American Needle vs NFL Supreme Court case?

It says you're a law dork. I don't remember ever hearing of this before, but it's fascinating reading.

lethal wrote: The argument the NFL made of it being a single entity whose franchises did not compete with each other except on the field just didn't sound right. Glad it lost 9-0, but I can't believe they won with that argument in the lower courts.

WheelsFellOff wrote:Need to pick up the posting pace people, otherwise I might get something done at work by accident.

WheelsFellOff wrote:Need to pick up the posting pace people, otherwise I might get something done at work by accident.

jamiethekiller wrote:

WheelsFellOff wrote:Need to pick up the posting pace people, otherwise I might get something done at work by accident.

First day of nanny software installed. Phone browsing just can't cut it.

Bucky wrote:

lethal wrote: The argument the NFL made of it being a single entity whose franchises did not compete with each other except on the field just didn't sound right. Glad it lost 9-0, but I can't believe they won with that argument in the lower courts.

Interesting. I thought that is exactly how it's supposed to work. OK, speaking from more of an MLB perspective, since I follow that more closely, but I'm assuming that the NFL works in a similar fashion.

Especially from a merchandising standpoint- all money from all merchandise goes into a pool. Doesn't matter whose merchandise it is- it all gets pooled and divided equally. So even if 1 million Cowgirls hats are sold, and seven Texans hats leave the shelves, each franchise gets an equal share of the proceeds.

So I'm really interested- why doesn't that sound right to you???

Each of the teams is a substantial, independently owned, and independently managed business. . . . Directly relevant to this case, the teams compete in the market for intellectual property. To a firm making hats, the Saints and the Colts are two potentially competing suppliers of valuable trademarks. When each NFL team licenses its intellectual property, it is not pursuing the “common interests of the whole” league but is instead pursuing interests of each “corporation itself,”. . . teams are acting as “separate economic actors pursuing separate economic interests,” and each team therefore is a potential “independent cente[r] of decisionmaking” [Citations omitted].