NFL should pay attention to this verdict

[Wozzy]

So stop enjoying your life in order to fight a monopoly?

Let them eat cake.

It’s us… we’re eating the cake.

 

[bresna]

Shut off the money spigot, organize and stop going, convince others not to go… vote with your wallet. That’s the only way to effect great change.

So because Ticketmaster is the sole provider of official NFL game tickets, you're advocating that we all give up our season tickets and that every single fan on the waiting list also stays away and then... what? The Patriots go bankrupt? Woopee! We beat Ticketmaster!

Except the NFL is one of many entertainment events that solely use Ticketmaster. There's no way to avoid them.

While I detest Ticketmaster's price gouging fees, I am not willing to give up my season tickets as some sort of way to get back at Ticketmaster.

 

[Wozzy]

So because Ticketmaster is the sole provider of official NFL game tickets, you're advocating that we all give up our season tickets and that every single fan on the waiting list also stays away and then... what? The Patriots go bankrupt? Woopee! We beat Ticketmaster!

Except the NFL is one of many entertainment events that solely use Ticketmaster. There's no way to avoid them.

While I detest Ticketmaster's price gouging fees, I am not willing to give up my season tickets as some sort of way to get back at Ticketmaster.

Okay then, just don’t buy those Taylor Swift tickets instead.

 

[Family]

It’s us… we’re eating the cake.

That's what I meant to the response of your text.

The league really has to have control of it's ticket sales, and Ticketmaster for all the issues, (which have pretty much gone away in the last year. My experience has been all fees are included in the quoted price) is reliable for everyone.

Yes the public always gets screwed somewhat. Let us eat cake. But we might benefit from the current monopoly arrangement with regards to tickets. It was always a shaddy business.

Ticketmaster is really a partnership with the teams. That's fair.

 

[Huckleberry1]

Said competition is too often is missing, prevented by powerful incumbents. Successful vendors manage the competitive environment to eliminate potential competition, ensure that they are too big or too well entrenched to fail, and provide the least quality for the highest price.

That’s why the NFL will fight to the bitter end trying to preserve their exemption from antitrust laws. It’s why the lawsuit cited in the OP was necessary, because the free market failed consumers.

The " free market" is dead and gone, we live in a rigged economy.

 

[TommyD4207]

So because Ticketmaster is the sole provider of official NFL game tickets, you're advocating that we all give up our season tickets and that every single fan on the waiting list also stays away and then... what? The Patriots go bankrupt? Woopee! We beat Ticketmaster!

Except the NFL is one of many entertainment events that solely use Ticketmaster. There's no way to avoid them.

While I detest Ticketmaster's price gouging fees, I am not willing to give up my season tickets as some sort of way to get back at Ticketmaster.

The Patriots can play to empty stadiums every week and still make plenty of money.
They are in no danger of going bankrupt.

Source: 2020 NFL Season

 

[Rob0729]

Lifting the exemption will destroy the competitive balance of the league but
So be it if owners won’t curb their greed

Yeah, it would turn into a worse version of the competitive imbalance we see in MLB. The Cowboys, Patriots, and only a handful of other teams have enough of a national fanbase to get national contract while a lot of teams like the Bengals and Browns have small fan bases outside the region and would get local TV contracts.

Jerry Jones would have a TV contract bigger than like 20 of the lowest TV revenue NFL teams combined and he would have no problem spending to buy a championship. The Cowboys would become the LA Dodgers of the NFL.

Meanwhile Mike Brown is cheap when he is forced to spend to the salary floor. Imagine how cheap he would be when he isn't making all that much relatively on a TV contract and there is no salary floor?

But it would also force a lot of owners to jack up ticket and concession prices because they won't be making as much in TV revenue.