It's a Christmas miracle! The NFL commissioner deigns to allow the lowly peasants to watch the NFL Network's game on Saturday night on simul-cast. How magnanimous! How beneficient!
Except, not.
He had his arm twisted by the senate (Specter in particular), who reminded him that the NFL has an exemption from anti-trust laws that lets them rake in money off of tv contracts. And perhaps that exemption would be revoked if Senator Specter, and the rest of us, didn't get to watch the Patriots play the Giants this Saturday.
And yet look how the arm-twisting is portrayed by sports-patsy ESPN. Football is great for a lot of reasons, but the way that ESPN and other major sports outlets (ahem, Sports Illustrated) are so in bed with the NFL is pretty disgusting.
