Force Over Football

As a New England Patriots fan, I was excited to hear that their upcoming game was going to be broadcast on CBS and NBC. My excitement turned to horror when I learned that this event was happening because our government pointed a gun at the head of the NFL.

The "smoking gun" in this case is the threat of revoking the NFL's "antitrust exemption". That threat confesses the antitrust laws' inherently capricious, arbitrary nature.

As such, they allow the arbitrary use of force for whatever a bureaucrat and/or politician wishes. In this case, it happens to be something as small as a football game. Yes, it's a big game for fans of football. However, our government has made it a far bigger game for anyone who values freedom and hates seeing it slip away.