David Pierce
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Like, wouldn't it be great if we could all watch more football games for free?
He's like, yeah, I would, Brendan.
Okay, so then here's where it gets particularly dumb.
Again, these are not savvy operators in this administration.
You know who used to run the DOJ?
These are not savvy operators across the board.
Pam Bondi, who, by the way, forced out her head of the antitrust division because she wanted to settle the Ticketmaster case and Gail Slater, who ran the antitrust division, didn't.
And guess what just happened?
Not savvy operators across the board here.
The problem they have is they can take the antitrust exemption away from the league.
But the league is composed of billionaires who have every single incentive to find another structure that still gets them all paid.
And these structures exist all through sports.
F1 is owned by Liberty Media.
The teams are companies, but Liberty Media owns the broadcast rights and recently took them and sold them to Apple.
Do you think the NFL is going to be like, oh, shit, we lost our antitrust exemption?
We'll just compete and make things cheaper for everybody.
What do you think is going to happen?