[sportscurmudgeon]

Defensewins:

I am not a lawyer; I never spent even a single day of my life in law school. If you are a lawyer, then help me out here.

I just spent the last hour or so looking for the case you cited in your posting. The only thing I could find is "Brown vs Pro-Football Inc." which was a case won by the NFL on appeal. It did NOT however say the NFL was exempt from anti-trust laws.

What this case was about was a suit filed by players saying that it was illegal for the NFL to have a uniform salary scale for practice squad players. The players alleged this violated the anti-trust laws. The appeals court said that the class action suit brought by the practice players was not valid because that kind of employment was exempt from anti trust laws.

That is VERY different from your implication that the ruling makes the NFL exempt from the anti-trust laws. If you meant to refer to a different case, please provide more details.