NFL To Shut Out Thousands Of Patriots Fans Thursday Night

[nightcrawler35]

WOW I didn't relies people cared this much. Well you can watch the stream FOR FREE.
On nfl.com

 

[dhett]

Congress and the President have been involved in NFL television rights since JFK signed the bill allowing the leagues (NFL and AFL) to sign with single network in 1962. Since professional sports leagues engage in interstate commerce, Congress-critters have the right to regulate professional sports, per Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. They have excersised that right on several occasions.

Which is why I posted the addendum. I'd have removed the line if the time limit hadn't run out. The Constitution does explicitly give Congress the right to regulate commerce between the states.

That having been said, it still makes me shudder to see how quick people are to ask the government to step in and regulate when they don't like something. Thomas Jefferson said it best: "A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned -- this is the sum of good government."

 

[ixnay]

TNT aired the Sunday night games before ESPN did.

IIRC when TNT had the SNF rights it was for the first half of the season, with the kids in Bristol taking over for the second half of the season.

ixnay