[jfman]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

It is, but you know how jfman tries to twist everything.

However I do agree with him that it is a practice that should cease. Football fans are always going to turn out to watch their team play.

It’s a restriction on trade. It takes no twisting from me for that to be a fact. Capitalist enterprises (and indeed the league’s collective bargaining constitutes a cartel) preventing others from broadcasting games so they get more customers at the turnstiles and push up the value per game of televised fixtures.