What was Congress doing with that law, and why did it come about?

So in the 1950s and '60s, the im- the NFL and the AFL, which used to be separate football leagues, were engaged in pretty h- hot competition for fans.

And the NFL was subject to these consent decrees because the Department of Justice had sued it for violating antitrust laws because of the way it was negotiating contractsTele- television contracts with the networks, it had all these blackout rules, it had, it had s- forced all the teams to completely sign over their rights and cede control over when their games would be broadcast and how.

And the DOJ got a court to say, "You can't do that anymore." So the NFL goes to Congress and says, "We can't, we can't exist like this.

We need to be able to pool all our media rights together," meaning taking all the teams' media rights and putting them in one bucket, and the NFL has so- sole control to negotiate how those media rights are distributed, when games are aired.

We can enforce blackout rules so that...

The NFL for a long time had a blackout rule that said if a game isn't sold out, you can't air it in a local market.

... about the blackout situation, if you would.