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Originally Posted by cdcox
The financial identity of the Chiefs is 2/3 NFL which is a monopoly. Yes a business can be a monopoly. But the decisions that the Chiefs make do not really have much of an impact on this fraction of their financial identity.
The other 1/3 is a business operating in the context of this monopoly conglomerate.
It is not a business in the same way that Microsoft is a business.
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Actually even the supreme court disagrees with you
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5214509
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Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-maximizing entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned," said the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for a unanimous court.
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I guess other people are having this debate too!