NFL Facing $6B Tackle As ‘Sunday Ticket’ Class Action Suit Heading To Trial Next Month
deadline.comWell, that’s gotta hurt. The National Football League isn’t officially saying anything yet, but the league just suffered a major loss – and we’re not talking about the woeful end of Bill Belichick’s reign at the New England Patriots.
Failing to get the nearly decade long antitrust lawsuit over the lucrative Sunday Ticket package thrown out of court, the Roger Goodell-run NFL is going to trial for potentially $6.1 billion just over a week after this year’s Super Bowl.
Rejecting the NFL’s request to dump the case, U.S. District Court Judge Philip Gutierrez on January 11 ordered the trial over non-competitive practices by the NFL to begin on February 22, to be specific.
Literally and figuratively, the only game in town for the NFL, the trial is expected to last about six weeks. First filed in 2015 when Sunday Ticket was still on DirecTV, the case was certified as a class action over the NFL’s objection by Judge Gutierrez back in February 2022.
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